BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20150308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20151101T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20160313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20161106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20170312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20171105T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161003T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161003T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160928T182921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160928T182921Z
UID:3769-1475485200-1475514000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: China\, East Asia and Global Value Chains
DESCRIPTION:Participants: \nGary G. Hamilton:\nMaking Money: Taiwanese Industrialists and the Making of the New Global Economy\n(Co-authored with Kao Cheng-shu) \nMark P. Dallas:\nFragmented Development: China\, East Asia and ‘Emergent’ Global Production \nTimothy Sturgeon:\nCompressed Development:   The Shrinking of Time and Space in an Interconnected World\n(Co-authored with  D. Hugh Whittaker\, Tianbiao Zhu and Toshie Okita) \nWorkshop Discussant: Eric Thun \nPlease note that this will be conducted in ‘workshop’ style based on book chapters\, so there may not be comprehensive presentations made by the authors.  If you would like a copy of workshop chapters\, please contact Mark Dallas at dallasm@union.edu.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-china-east-asia-and-global-value-chains/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161004T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161004T093000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160902T195254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160902T195254Z
UID:3162-1475568000-1475573400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Foreign Investment in China: From Starting Up to Winding Up
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nCharles Booth\, Professor of Law\, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa\nSabine Stricker-Kellerer\, Senior China Counsel\, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/corporate-law-in-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T095000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160909T191035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160909T191035Z
UID:3316-1475656200-1475661000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era
DESCRIPTION:Cheng Li\,  Director\, John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow\, Foreign Policy Program\, Brookings Institution \nCritical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-in-the-xi-jinping-era/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160909T214237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160909T214237Z
UID:3379-1475668800-1475676000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Witnessing the Cultural Revolution 1966-69
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: George Walden\, former diplomat and member of British Parliament \nChair: Roderick MacFarquhar\, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science\, Emeritus
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-cultural-revolution-seminar/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160926T214101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160926T214101Z
UID:3735-1475681400-1475688600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Carbonaceous Aerosol Emissions: From National to City Scale in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: ZHAO Yu\, Professor\, Nanjing University\, School of the Environment
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/carbonaceous-aerosol-emissions-from-national-to-city-scale-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161006T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161006T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160928T192641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160928T192641Z
UID:3776-1475769600-1475776800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:楚帛書的故事-中美兩國調查記
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Ling 李零\, Department of Chinese Language and Literature\, Peking University 北京大学中文系 \nNote: This event will be conducted in Mandarin.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/%e6%a5%9a%e5%b8%9b%e6%9b%b8%e7%9a%84%e6%95%85%e4%ba%8b-%e4%b8%ad%e7%be%8e%e5%85%a9%e5%9c%8b%e8%aa%bf%e6%9f%a5%e8%a8%98/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T043000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161008T120000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160719T224149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160719T224149Z
UID:1312-1475814600-1475928000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:60th Anniversary Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Listen again to the panels from our 60th Anniversary Symposium:  \n \nWatch again on YouTube (note\, some panels are audio only): \n \nEvent Description \nJoin us for a two-day academic symposium celebrating sixty years of the Fairbank Center’s world-leading research on China and East Asia. \nBy taking a critical look at the prevailing trends in Chinese Studies over the past six decades\, this symposium aims to not only reflect on our Center’s history\, but also discuss how the field will evolve in the future. \nFeaturing panels on key issues confronting China and Chinese Studies in 2016\, the symposium’s cross-disciplinary approach represents the very core of the Fairbank Center’s founding mission: to advance scholarship in all fields of Chinese studies at Harvard. \nFriday\, October 7 \n  \nOpening Remarks \n8:30am \nMichael Szonyi | Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Professor of Chinese History \n  \n8:45am \nPanel 1: Politics  \nChair: William Kirby | T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration \nJoseph Fewsmith | Professor of International Relations and Political Science\, Boston University; Fairbank Center Associate \nRoderick MacFarquhar | Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science \nYuhua Wang | Assistant Professor of Government \n  \n10:30am \nPanel 2: China’s Society \nChair: Ya-wen Lei | Assistant Professor of Sociology \nXiang Zhou | Assistant Professor of Government \nDeborah Davis | Professor of Sociology\, Yale University \nYun Zhou | PhD Candidate\, Department of Sociology \n  \nPanel 3: Politics and the Use of History in China Today \nChair: Mark Elliott | Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; Vice-Provost for International Affairs \nRowan Flad | John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology \nJing Tsu | Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature\, Yale University \nRudolf Wagner | Senior Professor\, Heidelberg University; Fairbank Center Associate \n  \n1:45pm \nPanel 4: China’s Tibetan and Uighur Nationalities \nChair: Leonard van der Kuijp | Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies \nWeirong Shen | Professor\, Renmin University of China \nBrenton Sullivan | Assistant Professor of Religion\, Colgate University \nRyosuke Kobayashi | Research Fellow\, Toyo Bunko; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nRian Thum | Assistant Professor of History\, Loyola University \n  \nPanel 5: Economy \nChair: Dwight Perkins | Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy\, Emeritus \nRichard Cooper | Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics \nDale Jorgenson | Samuel W. Morris University Professor\, Harvard University \nEdward Steinfeld | Howard Swearer Director\, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International & Public Affairs; Professor of Political Science\, Brown University \n  \n3:30pm \nPanel 6: U.S.-China Relations \nChair: Alastair Iain Johnston | Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs \nM. Taylor Fravel | Associate Professor of Political Science\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nSteven Goldstein | Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Government\, Smith College\, Emeritus; Fairbank Center Associate \nKelly Sims Gallagher | Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy\, The Fletcher School\, Tufts University \nRyan Hass | Director for China\, Taiwan\, and Mongolia Affairs\, National Security Council\, The White House \n  \n5:00pm \nReception for the opening of a new exhibition\, featuring paintings by Wilma Fairbank and Marian Schlesinger\, and photography by Sidney Gamble. \n  \n\n  \nSaturday\, October 8 \n10:00am \nPanel 7: Culture  \nChair: Xiaofei Tian | Professor of Chinese Literature \nWai-yee Li | Professor of Chinese Literature \nStephen Owen | James Bryant Conant University Professor \nDavid Wang | Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature \nEugene Wang | Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art \nEllen Widmer | Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, Wellesley College; Fairbank Center Associate \n  \nPanel 8: Global Health\, Global Care for the Elderly and Cross-Cultural Comparisons \nChair: Arthur Kleinman | Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry \nWinnie Yip |  Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, T.H. Chan School of Public Health \nPrerna Singh | Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs\, Brown University \n  \n11:45am \nPanel 9: China’s Environmental Issues – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives  \nChair: Arunabh Ghosh | Assistant Professor of History \nLing Zhang | Assistant Professor\, History Department\, Boston College \nBrian Lander | Environmental Fellow\, Harvard University Center for the Environment \nElizabeth Lord | Department of Geography and Planning\, University of Toronto \nMichael McElroy | Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies \n  \n2:30pm \nPanel 10: Former Directors’ Panel \nChair: Michael Szonyi | Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History \nMark Elliott | Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; Vice-Provost for International Affairs \nEzra Vogel | Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus \nWilt Idema | Professor of Chinese Literature\, Emeritus \nRoderick MacFarquhar | Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/60th-anniversary-symposium/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Gender Studies,Taiwan Studies
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161012T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161012T095000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160909T222011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160909T222011Z
UID:3388-1476261000-1476265800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series: China Views Tibet - Past\, Present and Future. Light at the End of the Tunnel?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Melvyn C. Goldstein\,  John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology\, Case Western Reserve University; Co-Director\, Center for Research on Tibet \nCritical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T093000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160902T195432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160902T195432Z
UID:3164-1476345600-1476351000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Law and Power in US-China Relations
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jerome A. Cohen (孔傑榮/柯恩)\, Founding Director of EALS; Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law; Of Counsel\, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/discussion-with-professor-jerome-cohen/
LOCATION:Room 100\, Pound Hall\, 1563 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160902T195748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160902T195748Z
UID:3166-1476360600-1476365400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Book talk with Arthur Kroeber\, China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know. Moderated by Edward Cunningham
DESCRIPTION:The Ash Center cordially invites you to a book talk with Arthur R. Kroeber\, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know. This discussion will be moderated by Edward Cunningham\, China Programs Director at the Ash Center. \nArthur R. Kroeber is founding partner of Gavekal Dragonomics\, a China-focused economic research consultancy he helped establish in Beijing in 2002 after 15 years as a freelance financial journalist in Asia\, and editor of its flagship publication China Economic Quarterly.He is also head of research at the parent company Gavekal\, a financial services firm based in Hong Kong\, where he advises financial\, corporate and government clients on economic and political developments in China. \nKroeber is a senior non-resident fellow of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy\, adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs\, and a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations. He lives in Beijing and New York. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/book-talk-with-arthur-kroeber-chinas-economy-what-everyone-needs-to-know-moderated-by-edward-cunningham/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T153000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20161003T174356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161003T174356Z
UID:3838-1476369000-1476372600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Patent and Software Licensing in China and Business Norms in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nick Psyhogeos \nNick leads the IP Licensing function at Microsoft\, as President of Microsoft Technology Licensing\, LLC\, a wholly-owned subsidiary that owns\, manages and licenses Microsoft’s patent portfolio.  In that role\, Nick oversees the patent licensing strategy for Microsoft\, including the Android licensing program. He manages a team of legal and business professionals responsible for a range of IP transactions\, including in-bound and outbound licensing\, cross-licensing\, and divestures. \nPreviously\, Nick served as VP in the OEM Group for Microsoft managing licensing\, pricing and policies with Microsoft’s Original Equipment Manufacturer partners globally.  In his 18 years with Microsoft\, he has held multiple roles within Microsoft’s Legal & Corporate Affairs Group (LCA)\, including LCA Director for the Central and Southern Europe Region based in Paris; Northern Europe Regional Counsel based in London; and Corporate Attorney based in Washington\, D.C. in charge of Microsoft’s anti-piracy enforcement program for the East Coast of the US. \nPrior to joining Microsoft\, he worked as an attorney in the litigation group of Sherburne\, Powers & Needham (now Holland & Knight) in Boston\, Mass.\, specializing in trade secret\, copyright and trademark litigation.  He started his legal career as a law clerk to the Rhode Island Supreme Court in Providence\, R.I. \n \nSponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/patent-and-software-licensing-in-china-and-business-norms-in-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161014T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161015T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160912T195437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160912T195437Z
UID:3417-1476435600-1476550800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Sinophone Studies: New Directions
DESCRIPTION:Listen again: \n \n \n“Sinophone” is arguably one of the most provocative concepts of world literary studies since the turn of the new millennium. In 2007\, we held the Yale-Harvard joint international conference “Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings\,” examining an array of issues ranging from diaspora to multicultural articulations. Since then\, waves of scholarship have grappled with Sinophone Studies\, its spatiotemporal boundaries\, its methodological feasibility\, and above all\, its geopolitical and geopoetic implications. With the conference Sinophone Studies: New Directions\, we seek to provide a new forum in which scholars and students from different disciplines can evaluate outcomes of prior research\, define new topics\, raise concerns\, and most importantly\, offer innovative ideas and approaches. \nThe conference focuses on the following four themes: \n• Site and Sight: locality\, landscape\, topos\n• Sound and Script: multilingualism\, linguistic and graphic mediality\n• Roots and Routes: heritage in motion\, secondary and tertiary diasporas\, global mobility\n• History and Potentiality: post-loyalism\, governance\, resistance politics \nDownload the conference schedule here: sinophone-studies-schedule \nDownload speaker abstracts here: sinophone-studies-abstracts \n  \nOrganizers: \nJing TSU\, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and Comparative Literature\, Yale University \nDavid Der-wei WANG\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n  \nKeynote speakers: \nShu-mei SHIH\, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nNG Kim Chew\, Chinese Malaysian writer and Professor of Chinese Literature\, National Chi Nan University\, Taiwan \n  \nSponsors: \nCouncil on East Asian Studies\, Yale University \nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nChiang Ching-kuo Foundation \nHarvard-Yenching Institute \nDepartment of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n  \nPresenters: \nRosa Vieira de ALMEIDA\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Literatures\, Yale University \nAndrea BACHNER\, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature\, Cornell University \nBrian BERNARDS\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Southern California \nCheow Thia CHAN\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of Chinese Studies\, National University of Singapore \nHoward CHIANG\, Assistant Professor of History\, University of Waterloo \nStephen Y.W. CHU\, Professor of School of Modern Languages and Cultures\, University of Hong Kong \nChih-Wei CHUNG\, Hou Family Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nGe Fei\, writer; Professor of Chinese Literature\, Tsinghua University\, P. R. China \nAlison GROPPE\, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature\, University of Oregon \nSatoru HASHIMOTO\, Assistant Professor of Chinese\, University of Maryland \nYu-ting HUANG\, Mellon-Keiter Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of English\, Amherst College \nKIM Hye-joon\, Professor of Chinese\, Pusan National University \nHa Jin\, Writer\, Boston University \nHenning KLÖTER\, Professor of Modern Chinese Languages and LIteratures\, Humboldt University of Berlin \nKO Chia-cian\, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature\, National Taiwan University \nYu-lin LEE\, Professor\, National Chung Hsing University \nLO Yi-chin\, writer\, Taiwan \nXiaolu MA\, Ph.D. candidate\, Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \nFederica PASSI\, Associate Professor\, Ca’ Foscari University Venice \nCarlos ROJAS\, Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender\, Sexuality and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image\, Duke University \nMarten Soderblom SAARELA\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science \nFlora SHAO\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Literatures\, Yale University \nShu Ching SHIH\, writer\, Taiwan \nKyle SHERNUK\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nDylan SUHER\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nE. K. TAN\, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies\, Stony Brook University \nLi Wen Jessica TAN\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nKaren L. THORNBER\, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nTSAI I-Ni\, Assistant Professor\, Graduate Program of Teaching Chinese as Second Language\, National Taiwan University \nSebastian VEG\, Research Professor\, Ecole des Hautes études en sciences sociales\, Paris \nAlvin K. WONG\, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Film\, Yonsei University \nNicholas Y. H. WONG\, Ph.D. candidate\, Comparative Literature\, University of Chicago \nWOO Kamloon\, publisher\, Taiwan \nMiya Qiong XIE\, Ph.D. candidate\, Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \nYING Lei\, Ph.D. candidate\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sinophone-studies-new-directions/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Gender Studies,Taiwan Studies
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160909T224333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160909T224333Z
UID:3400-1476705600-1476712800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Origins and Dynamics of Crony Capitalism in China: Insights from 260 Cases of Collusive Corruption
DESCRIPTION:Corruption in the post-Tiananmen era exhibits distinct characteristics not found in the 1980s\, such as astronomical sums of money looted by officials\, their family members\, and their cronies in the private sector\, large networks of co-conspirators\, and the sale of public office.  By examining the evolution of Chinese economic and political institutions since the early 1990s\, we can trace the emergence of crony capitalism to two critical changes in the control of property rights of the assets owned by the state and the personnel management of the officials the ruling Communist Party.  The cumulative effects of these changes have dramatically decentralized the control of public property without clarifying its ownership and granted local party chiefs unprecedented personnel power.  Consequently\, local political and business elites gain greater incentives and opportunities to collude with each other in looting the assets nominally owned by the state.  The insights from a sample of 260 cases of corruption involving multiple officials and businessmen suggest that crony capitalism in China has given birth to a decentralized kleptocracy with its own market rules and dynamics. \nSpeaker: Minxin Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and directs the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is the author of China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay (Harvard\, 2016); China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Harvard\, 2006) and From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (Harvard\, 1994).  Pei has published in Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, The New York Times\, The Financial Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Project Syndicate\, Fortune.com\, Nikkei Asian Review\, and many scholarly journals and edited volumes.  He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1999-2009) and an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University (1992-1998).  He received his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 1991.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-origins-and-dynamics-of-crony-capitalism-in-china-insights-from-260-cases-of-collusive-corruption/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160914T003354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160914T003354Z
UID:3510-1476705600-1476712800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Religion of the Han Empire
DESCRIPTION:***NOTE*** This event takes place in Room S250\, CGIS South Building*** \nAn Unknown Chinese religion from the 200s BC to 200s AD has been revealed. Led by Confucian morality\, mixed with Huanglao Daoist belief and techniques\, the meaning system served as the spiritual support of the Han empire. The underground is another world\, with sun\, moon and dipper on its sky. In that space\, the tomb serves as a “palace for refining the form” after death; the dead in the tomb will undergo a process of “form refining in the grand darkness.” If one behaves according to Confucian teachings in this world\, one will gain immortality at the end of this underworld process. Before Buddhism penetrated into the core of the Han tradition\, this was the major belief of the Han people and formed the Han traditional spirituality and gave birth to Celestial Master Daoism. \nSpeaker: Dr. Jiang Sheng 姜生\, Changjiang Scholar Professor of Chinese History at Sichuan University\, is the leading Chinese historian in the methodological pursuit and practice of religiological historiography\, i.e.\, to understand and interpret ancient history on the basis of religious studies. He is devoted to the study of Han tomb and Han religion — the earlier religious history before Celestial Master’s Daoism; on this topic\, his recent publication is a monograph “Heritage of the Han Empire: Ghosts in Han China.” His work includes interdisciplinary study and development of culture\, science and technology\, esp. the cultural basis of scientific innovation and of national power. He is the PI of China’s national major project “History of Science and Technology in Daoism (Song to Qing);” in this field he has published two big volumes.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/religion-of-the-han-empire/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20161014T161759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161014T161759Z
UID:3947-1476720000-1476730800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Brown University Strait Talk Final Presentation on Taiwan-China Cross Strait Relations at Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, fifteen delegates travel to Brown University for a weeklong Interactive Conflict Resolution and public events on the Taiwan Strait issue. The ICR will be facilitated by Dr. Tatsushi Arai\, a professor at the School of International Training Graduate Institute. \nThe final presentation made by the delegates of the Strait Talk Symposium will surround the ideas developed during their ICR Workshops in the form of a Consensus Document. The document encompasses series of policy recommendations\, vision for the future\, and suggestions for initiatives that can be undertaken by all levels of society across the Taiwan Strait. We aim to promote awareness of the issue and sustain a peaceful future.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/brown-university-strait-talk-final-presentation-on-taiwan-china-cross-strait-relations-at-harvard-university/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20160929T122659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160929T122659Z
UID:3785-1476813600-1476820800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections\, National Reflections
DESCRIPTION:China’s rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the United States. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections\, National Reflections\, is a national day of programming from the National Committee on U.S. – China Relations (NCUSCR) designed to provide Americans across the United States and beyond the opportunity to discuss issues in the relationship with leading experts. The tenth annual CHINA Town Hall will take place on October 18\, 2016 and will feature Dr. Henry A. Kissinger as the national webcast speaker. \nIn addition to his years as national security advisor (1969-1975) and secretary of state (1973-1977)\, Dr. Kissinger has also taught at Harvard University and is currently chairman of Kissinger Associates\, Inc.\, an international consulting firm.  While national security advisor\, Dr. Kissinger played a crucial role in arranging President Nixon’s 1972 visit to China\, which opened the door to the re-establishment of U.S.-China relations. \n \nThe event will also feature Orville Schell speaking in person at Harvard. Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California\, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. \nSchell is the author of fifteen books\, ten of them about China\, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent book is Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century. He is also a contributor to such magazines as The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Times Magazine\, Newsweek\, The China Quarterly\, and The New York Review of Books\, among others. \nSchell graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History\, was an exchange student at Taiwan University in the 1960s\, and earned a PhD (Abd) in Chinese History at the University of California\, Berkeley. He worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia\, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist\, and has traveled widely in China since the mid-70s. \nHe is a Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University\, a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Schell was a Fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the recipient of many prizes and fellowships\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Overseas Press Club Award\, and the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-town-hall-local-connections-national-reflections/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060955
CREATED:20161014T160149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161014T160149Z
UID:3940-1476813600-1476820800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Lecture and Panel Discussion: Cultural Heritage and Ai Weiwei
DESCRIPTION:Using the historical legacy and artistic concepts of Ai Weiwei’sCircle of Animals/Zodiac Heads as a point of departure\, join The Greenway and the Arts & Business Council as they present a panel of experts that can guide us through current cultural heritage concerns and remedies. \nThe event will present specialists in the fields of heritage appropriation and repatriation; specifically\, the looting history in which Ai Weiwei based his monumental artworks; and for comparison in the United States\, remedy in the form of federal law for museum collections which enables the repatriation  of Native American cultural items. \nThe event will feature short lectured presentations on these topics\, and will conclude with a moderated panel discussion followed by audience Q&A. Please join us to learn more about this important topic. Small reception to follow. \nAbout Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: \nDesigned in the 18th century by two European Jesuits serving in the court of the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong\, the twelve zodiac animal heads originally functioned as a water clock-fountain\, which was sited in the magnificent European-style gardens of the Yuanming Yuan. In 1860\, the Yuanming Yuan was ransacked by French and British troops\, and the heads were pillaged. In re-interpreting these objects on an oversized scale\, Ai Weiwei focuses attention on questions of looting and repatriation\, while extending his ongoing exploration of the ‘fake’ and the copy in relation to the original.  Ai Weiwei’s work reveals layers of history while bringing attention to current economic\, political and collecting issues. \nSpeakers: \nLILLIAN M. LI\, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Professor Emerita of History and Senior Research Scholar at Swarthmore College \nLillian M. Li\, a historian of China\, was trained at Harvard University under John King Fairbank\, and served on the faculty of Swarthmore College until 2012. Her scholarly work focused on economic history and culminated with the publication ofFighting Famine in North China: State\, Market\, and Environmental Decline\, 1690s-1990s (Stanford University Press\, 2007). Urban history and visual culture have been her recent interests. She co-authored Beijing: from Imperial Capital to Olympic City (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2007 and 2008)\, as well as an article “Building and Visualizing Cities: China\, Europe\, and the Islamic World\, 1400-1800” in Urban Life in China\, 15th-20th centuries (École francaise d’Extrême-Orient\, 2016). She has also written “The Garden of Perfect Brightness\,” a three-part visual essay on the Yuanmingyuan\, for MIT Visualizing Cultures\, Open Courseware\, and has lectured about the historic significance of this site and the recent controversies about the repatriation of its iconic zodiac animal heads. \nPATRICIA (TRISH) CAPONE\, Museum Curator and Director of Research and Repatriation\, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology\, Harvard University \nPatricia Capone (Ph.D.\, Harvard University) joined the staff of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in 1995.  As Curator and Director of Research and Repatriation\, Patricia focuses on museum anthropology\, North American historical archaeology\, repatriation and collaborative methodologies.  As Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University\, she co-directs the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project with Dr. Diana Loren. She also currently serves as President of the Council of Museum Anthropology within the American Anthropological Association. Her recent article “Amending Wonder: Museums and Twenty Years of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act” (2013)\, is an example of her work as part of the Peabody Museum’s leadership in considering museums’ history and modern scholarly and public partnerships. \nModerator: \nMEGAN LOW is the Director of Services for the Arts & Business Council\, where she oversees the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts program.  Megan is a graduate of Boston College Law School and holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History from Harvard University. Prior to law school\, Megan graduated from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York and managed the art gallery at a nonprofit cultural center in Manhattan.  She has also worked as travel writer\, freelance grant writer for nonprofit arts and education groups\, producer of undergraduate theater\, and adjunct professor\, teaching courses on arts administration and museology. \nThis event is produced by the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy and cosponsored by the School of the Arts at Emerson College and the Boston Cultural Council.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lecture-and-panel-discussion-cultural-heritage-and-ai-weiwei/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Exhibitions
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20161006T201831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T201831Z
UID:3852-1476813600-1476822600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: Wansei Back Home
DESCRIPTION:After Japan was defeated in World War II\, nearly 350\,000 Japanese civilians living in Taiwan were repatriated. Among those numbers\, more than half consisted of wansei\, or Taiwan-born Japanese subjects. \nDirected by Huang Ming-cheng\, this documentary draws on 12 years of research\, focusing on the experiences of 8 wansei. Interviews with these subjects reveal stories about the concept of homeland\, friendship\, family. \nJapanese\, Hoklo\, and Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles. \nFOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: CATHERINETSAI@G.HARVARD.EDU\nPLEASE RSVP BY 10/14.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-wansei-back-home/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161019T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20161012T134836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161012T134836Z
UID:3881-1476878400-1476885600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:India and Japan\, India and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tarun Das\,  former Director-General and Chief Mentor of the Confederation of Indian Industries\nChair: Sugata Bose\, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and the South Asia Institute\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/india-and-japan-india-and-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161019T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161019T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20161006T202342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T202342Z
UID:3858-1476891000-1476898200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China's Evolving Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts: A Spatial Analysis of its Infrastructure System
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Xi (Sisi) HU\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Environmental Change Institute\, University of Oxford; Visiting Fellow\, China Project \nSponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nTo learn more about our seminar series\, visit our website: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars \nYou can also subscribe to our mailing list by emailing tiffanychan@seas.harvard.edu 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-evolving-vulnerability-to-climate-change-impacts-a-spatial-analysis-of-its-infrastructure-system/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Environment,Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20160920T192428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T192428Z
UID:3545-1476964800-1476970200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Anti-rightist Campaign as Media Event: Censorship\, Political Dissent\, and Media in 1950s China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Chin Sei Jeong (Division of International Studies\, Ewha Womans University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17) \nChair/discussant: Prof. Arunabh Ghosh (History\, Harvard University) \nZhang Naiqi\, the Minister of Food and democratic party leader\, was denounced as one of the three leading “rightists” during the Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957-58) in China. Accusations against Zhang by other intellectuals were actively publicized through the news media. Intriguingly\, rather than simply censoring “rightist voices\,” the CCP allowed the news media to publicize Zhang’s contestation against the accusation\, even when the CCP had the capacity to completely censor Zhang’s rebuttal. The CCP by the early 1950s monopolized the ability to construct publicity and public opinion on party policies and political affairs by gaining tight media control through nationalizing the media and establishing a relatively effective censorship system. Thus\, the CCP’s effective media control itself does not fully explain Zhang’s vulnerability to the accusation. Ultimately\, Zhang was unsuccessful in contesting the public accusation\, and was ultimately purged from most of his public positions. \nThis talk explores the role of the media in a high-profile political campaign in the early PRC\, such as the Anti-Rightist Campaign\, by emphasizing the theatrical and performative nature of the campaign. Earlier studies on political campaigns in the PRC often neglected the role of the media\, due to the assumption that the media functioned merely as a party mouthpiece. However\, major newspapers such as the People’s Daily played an important role as a public tribunal in which a particular political discourse was delegitimized and defined as “dissent.” Even when branded as “rightist\,” “anti-socialist\,” “anti-party\,” and even “counterrevolutionary\,” Zhang was allowed to publicize his own rebuttal against the accusation. Thus\, Zhang Naiqi became vulnerable to public accusation not because he was unable to publicize his own voice\, but because he was unable to negotiate with the party and the news media in constructing publicity for the case and creating his own subjectivity in public in a way that would allow him not to lose his political legitimacy. Ultimately\, this talk aims at shedding new light on the role of media in politics\, media censorship\, and political dissent in 1950s China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-anti-rightist-campaign-as-media-event-censorship-political-dissent-and-media-in-1950s-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20161014T162621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161014T162621Z
UID:3954-1476965700-1476972000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Maitreya’s Terrestrial Paradise: Medieval Mural Paintings at Dunhuang
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. April D. Hughes (Dept. of Religion\, Boston University). \nOrganized by BUCSA and supported by AsianArc and the BU Center for the Humanities.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/maitreyas-terrestrial-paradise-medieval-mural-paintings-at-dunhuang/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T143000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20160923T154226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160923T154226Z
UID:3587-1476968400-1476973800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Cross-Strait Dilemmas
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nProfessor Syaru Shirley Lin\, Chinese University of Hong Kong\nProfessor Harry Harding\, University of Virginia \nCritical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-cross-strait-dilemmas/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20161006T201258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154956Z
UID:3848-1476979200-1476986400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture: Varieties of Chinese Utopianism\, 1900-1940
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Peter Zarrow\, University of Connecticut \nUtopianism was a major motif in early twentieth century Chinese political thought.  Utopianism was not only widespread\, it became constitutive of political thought.  Utopianism did so in the form of the utopian impulse rather than full-fledged utopianism.  The “utopian impulse” is revealed in the context of generally non-utopian ideas.  While not all thinkers were influenced by utopianism\, many were—and the utopian impulse revealed in their work took very different forms.  I consider four case studies.  First\, Kang Youwei: he was author of the only full-fledged utopian scheme; his utopia was based on metaphysical cosmopolitanism.  Second\, Cai Yuanpei: Cai’s neo-Kantian aestheticism was another form of metaphysical thinking that formed the basis of his so-called philosophical anarchism.  Third\, Chen Duxiu: Chen’s secular utopian interpretation of democracy infused his liberal and Trotskyite phases (less so his Leninist phase).  And finally\, Hu Shi: Hu’s scientism led him to processual utopianism and shaped his liberalism and his critique of traditional culture.  There were certainly other varieties of utopianism\, both metaphysical and secular\, and the utopian impulse appeared in fiction as well as political writing\, but these four cases enable us to begin to examine the relationship between utopianism and varieties of political thought. \nPeter Zarrow is professor of History at the University of Connecticut.  His research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of modern China.  Zarrow is currently writing a monograph on utopian thought in China in the twentieth century and has begun a project on the history of the Forbidden City.  He is the author most recently of After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State\, 1885-1924 (Stanford\, 2012) and Educating China: Knowledge\, Society\, and Textbooks in a Modernizing World\, 1902-1937 (Cambridge\, 2015).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-varieties-of-chinese-utopianism-1900-1940/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20160920T193232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T193232Z
UID:3550-1477396800-1477402200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Legitimating State Power and Social Policies: A Comparative Study of Early Modern England\, Tokugawa Japan\, and Qing China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. He Wenkai (Division of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI-Radcliffe Visiting Scholar)\nChair/discussant: Prof. Daniel Ziblatt (Government\, Harvard University) \nThis talk employs comparative historical analysis to examine a crucial linkage between the legitimation of state power and the adoption of social policies in three early modern states\, England (1550-1700)\, Japan (1700-1868)\, and China (1700-1895). In all three cases\, despite their distinct political institutions and histories\, states justified their monopoly of coercive force through key normative terms such as public welfare or public good. Importantly\, such terms could also be utilized by local officials\, local communities\, and even commoners to negotiate and bargain with the center over the content of social policies such as poverty and famine relief\, resolution of cross-regional conflicts of interests\, and infrastructure building. This negotiation process was fundamental to the smooth operation of early modern states with quite weak central institutional capacities. Moreover\, it also provided a limited political space for common people to participate in state politics through peaceful collective petitions.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/legitimating-state-power-and-social-policies-a-comparative-study-of-early-modern-england-tokugawa-japan-and-qing-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161025T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20161017T124525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T124525Z
UID:3961-1477418400-1477425600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:A New Asia: How China Shaped the Postwar Global Order
DESCRIPTION:The 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture will be presented by Rana Mitter\, professor of history and politics of modern China and fellow of St Cross College\, University of Oxford. Established in 2001\, the Lee Lecture focuses on military history\, strategy\, and policy making. \nRSVP to arrd_events@hks.harvard.edu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-new-asia-how-china-shaped-the-postwar-global-order/
LOCATION:Loeb House\, 17 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161026T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20161021T165911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161021T165911Z
UID:4072-1477485000-1477490400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Xi Jinping: The Three Problems and the Two Issues
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Joseph Fewsmith\, Department of Political Science\, Boston University \nCritical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  and the Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xi-jinping-the-three-problems-and-the-two-issues/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161027T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20160920T193655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T193655Z
UID:3553-1477569600-1477575000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Tourism\, Homeland\, and Imaginaries: the percolating role of a Yi Jia Le family in a Sani Yi village in southwest China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Ge Rongling (Anthropology\, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar)\nChair/discussant: Prof. Michael Puett (EALC\, Harvard University) \nTourism has increasingly become a force that propels economic and social change in a wide range of ethnic villages in China. For the local ethnic minorities\, engaging in the business of tourism means not only learning new livelihood skills but also adjusting the community’s imaginaries of their own homeland to outside tourist imaginaries. This talk will focus on a case study of Yi Jia Le\, a newly emerged family-run hospitality business in Da Nuo Hei\, a Sani Yi village near the Stone Forest UNESCO Park in Yunnan\, China\, to examine its role as outside-inside imaginary circulators and percolators\, and its use of a social nexus to transfer individual homeland imaginaries into shared and collective ones. One particular Yi Jia Le family and its creative off-market exchanges/transactions with other villagers will be presented to explain how the imaginary nexus expands in the community.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tourism-homeland-and-imaginaries-the-percolating-role-of-a-yi-jia-le-family-in-a-sani-yi-village-in-southwest-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161028T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161030T075959
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20160928T164012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160928T164012Z
UID:3766-1477641600-1477814399@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Du Fu (712-770): China's Greatest Poet:  A Conference in Honor of the Library of Chinese Humanities
DESCRIPTION:The symposium brings together over twenty scholars in premodern and modern Chinese literary studies from North America and East Asia.  The discussions will focus on four aspects: \n\nRethinking Du Fu in the context of the medieval world and poetics\nDimensions of Du Fu’s works less explored in Du Fu studies\, such as Buddhism\, humor\, self-exegesis\, and everyday life\nReception of Du Fu from Song through Qing literature\, literary criticism\, and art\nThe reinvention of Du Fu in modern times\n\nThe conference will be conducted in English and Chinese. It is open to the public. \nSponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. \nOrganizer: Xiaofei Tian\, Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \nFor more information about the conference\, including abstracts\, please click here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/du-fu-712-770-chinas-greatest-poet-a-conference-in-honor-of-the-library-of-chinese-humanities/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161031T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T060956
CREATED:20161025T192513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T192513Z
UID:4114-1477915200-1477922400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joshua Rubenstein. staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/book-talk-the-last-days-of-stalin/
LOCATION:Lewis 241A\, 1557 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR