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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161102T123000
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CREATED:20161021T170139Z
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SUMMARY:The Dictator's Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Bruce J. Dickson\, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director\, Sigur Center for Asian Studies\, Elliott School of International Affairs\, The George Washington 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/the-dictators-dilemma-the-chinese-communist-partys-strategy-for-survival/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T153000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161021T170627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161021T170627Z
UID:4079-1478166300-1478187000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Taiwan in Transition? Initial Impressions of the Tsai Ing-wen Administration
DESCRIPTION:Taiwan Studies Workshop \n9:45am – Introductory Remarks: Hon. Stanley Kao\, Representative\, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States. \n10:15am – Shelley Rigger\, Davidson College \n11:15am – Scott Kennedy\, Center for Strategic and International Studies \n1:00pm – Kuen-da (Dalton) Lin\, Georgia Institute of Technology \n2:00pm – Alan Romberg\, Stimson Center \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-in-transition-initial-impressions-of-the-tsai-ing-wen-administration/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161103T133000
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CREATED:20160912T194111Z
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UID:3411-1478172600-1478179800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Future of Sino-EU Relations After Brexit
DESCRIPTION:Philippe Le Corre\, Visiting Fellow – Foreign Policy\, Center on the United States and Europe\, The Brookings Institution\nCo-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on Transatlantic Relations \nFor years China’s international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America. Recently China’s focus has shifted to Europe as well as the United States\, and to new fields as diverse as real estate\, energy\, hospitality\, transportation\, and heavy industry. \nChinese foreign investment is expected to grow throughout Europe in the years to come. For instance\, the financial crisis centered in Greece and the fall of the euro have helped China and some of its corporations create a new partnership within the European Union\, working to expand the country’s power through finance and infrastructure. \nPhilippe Le Corre examines the trends\, sectors\, and target countries of Chinese investments in Europe. Looking at cases of outbound investment trajectories and journeys by some key Chinese private and state-owned companies\, he also takes a look at European perceptions of China. \nPhilippe Le Corre is the author of “China’s Offensive in Europe” (Brookings\, 2016).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-future-of-sino-eu-relations-after-brexit/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161104T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161104T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161021T180311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161021T180311Z
UID:4085-1478261700-1478268000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Learning Community Organizing in Japan and China
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nDr. Marshall Ganz\, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\nKanoko Kamata\, Executive Director\, Community Organizing Japan\nIris Hu\, Leadership Trainer and Coach\,  Harvard SEED for Social Innovation \nModerator:  Professor Andrew Gordon\, Acting Director\, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor\, Harvard University \nS354\, 3rd Floor\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge \nAsia Center Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/learning-community-organizing-in-japan-and-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161108T133000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20160920T194117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160920T194117Z
UID:3556-1478606400-1478611800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Fantasies of the Self: Multiples\, Illusions and Poems in the Photographic Culture of Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Shengqing Wu (Division of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;  HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2016-17)\nChair/discussant: Prof. David Wang (EALC\, Harvard University) \nThis talk investigates the visual configurations\, rhetorical conventions\, and fundamental concepts underlying China’s portrait photography in the early twentieth century. By surveying pictorial magazines\, photo albums of courtesans\, and poems written about new visual experiences\, it addresses issues of how portrait photography was understood and practiced in the flourishing urban culture\, and how traditional aesthetics\, visual tropes\, and Buddhist concepts were involved in adopting and indigenizing the new visual media. The complex interactions of modern technology and aestheticism\, image and text\, reveal that aesthetic tradition was deeply implicated in the cross-cultural exchanges of technologies and power in the formation of China’s urban culture and visual modernity\, further enriching our understanding of optical truth and illusion.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fantasies-of-the-self-multiples-illusions-and-poems-in-the-photographic-culture-of-modern-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161108T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161108T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161102T154959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161102T154959Z
UID:4313-1478607300-1478613600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Unparalleled Momentum: A Review of China-U.S. Economic and Trade Relations Under President Obama
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Xiang Yu\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center; Director of the Division of American Economy Studies\, Institute of American Studies\, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR); Research Fellow and Associate Professor\, CICIR \nChair: Dr. William Overholt\, Asia Center Senior Fellow
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/unparalleled-momentum-a-review-of-china-u-s-economic-and-trade-relations-under-president-obama/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T140000
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CREATED:20161102T191207Z
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UID:4336-1478694600-1478700000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Living With A China Made Great Again
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ambassador Chas W. Freeman\, Jr.;  Senior Fellow\, Watson Institute for International Studies\, Brown University; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs;  former U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’affaires in the American embassies in Bangkok and Beijing; and former Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State \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/living-with-a-china-made-great-again/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161109T170000
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CREATED:20161103T173005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T173005Z
UID:4360-1478705400-1478710800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China's National Cap-and-Trade Program: the Promise and the Reality
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: WANG Pu\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nCo-sponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program\, Harvard Kennedy School. \nChina’s national cap-and-trade program is regarded as a cornerstone of its climate policy outlined in the 13th Five-year plan (2016-2020)\, published right after the 2015 U.N. Climate Conference in Paris. Since China has accounted for two thirds of global emissions growth in the past decade\, its ambition to control carbon emissions could be a great contribution to the global effort in combating climate change. In addition to emission reduction\, China also intends to achieve two other goals through the program: to facilitate economic transition by reducing energy-inefficient industrial sectors and promoting low-carbon industries\, and to mitigate severe air pollution in the urban regions. But the program’s effectiveness is contingent on the right institutional settings at both macro and micro levels. The speaker will review the major challenges for the program in accomplishing the policy goals\, and discuss the efficiency and equity tradeoffs of different allowance allocation methods in the cap-and-trade program.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-national-cap-and-trade-program-the-promise-and-the-reality/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161111T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161012T134239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161012T134239Z
UID:3877-1478865600-1478872800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Securitization of Management of Foreign NGOs and Foundations in China: What We Know So Far
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mark Sidel\, Law Professor\, University of Wisconsin; Consultant (Asia)\, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL); Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Visiting Chair in Community Foundations\, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy\, Indiana University (2016-2017) \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-securitization-of-management-of-foreign-ngos-and-foundations-in-china-what-we-know-so-far/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161112T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T075959
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161103T172653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T172653Z
UID:4355-1478937600-1479196799@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: The Artist’s Hand—Technology in Practice
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is an international event jointly sponsored by the Harvard History of Art and Architecture Dept.\, the China Academy of Art\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. It is designed to unite practicing artists and art historians in an exploration of the role of the Artist’s Hand and traditional technique in contemporary artistic practice (with an emphasis on East Asia).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-the-artists-hand-technology-in-practice/
LOCATION:Deknatel Hall\, 32 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161114T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161114T110000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161102T153857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161102T153857Z
UID:4303-1479114000-1479121200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening and Discussion: Mr. Deng Goes to Washington
DESCRIPTION:Mr. Deng Goes to Washington tells the story of Deng Xiaoping’s\, China’s paramount leader\, historic visit to the United States in 1979 that changed the trajectory of world history.  This dramatic story is told through first-hand experiences of those people from both countries who made the normalization of relations possible–politicians\, diplomats\,  and one former U.S. President.  Throughout the trip\, Deng had to face many different audiences and win the approval of the U.S. public and the U.S. Congress.  But in the end\, Deng’s wisdom in opening up a new course\, his determination and sense of humor and the American hosts’ good will and detailed preparations cemented the friendship between the U.S. and China and precipitated China’s meteoric economic rise for the next 36 years. \nDiscussants:\nEzra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus\,  Harvard University\nJan Berris\, Vice-President\, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations\nFu Hongqing\, Director\, Mr. Deng Goes to Washington\nZhou Zhixing\, Chair\, U.S.-China New Perspectives Foundation
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-discussion-mr-deng-goes-to-washington/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161114T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161018T200012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T200012Z
UID:3984-1479139200-1479146400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Master Branches Out: Images of Confucius in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:As Confucius (551-479 BCE) has returned to political favor in recent years\, his image has become ubiquitous in mainland China and increasingly used abroad to symbolize Chinese culture.  Represented in a great variety of media\, both traditional and modern\, depictions of the ancient teacher serve new purposes and address a much wider audience than ever before.  Sometimes based on imagery from the dynastic era\, when Confucius was meaningful to just the educated elite\, his recent portrayals range from monumental public statues and paintings to movies\, cartoons\, and avant-garde installations.  Using examples from contemporary Chinese visual culture\, this talk will explore issues of patronage\, source\, reception\, and significance in light of current cultural and political concerns. \nSpeaker: Julia K. Murray is Professor Emerita of Art History\, East Asian Studies\, and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin\, and an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for China Studies at Harvard University.  Before entering academe\, she worked in curatorial positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Freer Gallery of Art\, and the Harvard University Art Museums\, She has taught courses on many aspects of the history of Chinese art\, in a variety of media\, from Neolithic times to the present\, with particular emphasis on late-imperial pictorial art.  Her numerous research fellowships include awards from the Guggenheim Foundation\, American Council of Learned Societies\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\, Asian Cultural Council\, and the Metropolitan Center for Research on Far Eastern Art.  Her current research focuses on the visual and material culture associated with the veneration of Confucius\, particularly his portraits and illustrations of his life.  Her publications include Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology (2007); Ma Hezhi and the Illustration of the Book of Odes (1993); Last of the Mandarins (1987); and A Decade of Discovery (1979); as well as numerous articles on Chinese pictorial art and narrative illustration.  In 2010 she served as the guest-curator and catalogue co-author for the exhibition Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art at the China Institute Gallery in New York\, organized jointly with the Shandong Provincial Museum.  The Chinese-language edition of  Mirror of Morality was published in 2014 by Beijing’s Sanlian Press\, under the title 道德镜鉴：中国叙述性图画与儒家意识形态 .
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-master-branches-out-images-of-confucius-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161109T175918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161109T175918Z
UID:4426-1479232800-1479240000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Song of the Reed"
DESCRIPTION:In 1998\, the Taiwan Women’s Rescue Foundation (TWRF) made a groundbreaking documentary that revealed the existence of Taiwanese comfort women. More than 15 years later\, the same organization filmed a second documentary\, Song of the Reed. Following the later years of six former comfort women\, Song of the Reed focuses on the therapy that the women went through to confront their horrific experiences and the justice that they are still seeking.\nJapanese\, Hoklo\, and Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-song-of-the-reed/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T140000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161102T191435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161102T191435Z
UID:4340-1479299400-1479304800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Can China Back Down? Crisis De-escalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Alastair Iain Johnston\, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs\, Government Department\, Harvard 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/can-china-back-down-crisis-de-escalation-in-the-shadow-of-popular-opposition/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161116T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161102T155607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T154956Z
UID:4316-1479312000-1479319200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The First World War and the Idea of "China"
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will focus on the meaning of the First World War to China and China’s role in the Great War. It will pay special attention to the issue how the Great War and its aftermath provided a momentum for the Chinese and the world to think about the ideas of China and Chineseness. Most importantly\, this talk will explain why and how the Chinese seized the Great War to achieve their great transformation. \nSpeaker: Prof. Xu Guoqi\, University of Hong Kong\nChair: Arunabh Ghosh\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-first-world-war-and-the-idea-of-china/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel\, K050\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161117T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161117T190000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161026T195309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T195309Z
UID:4230-1479402900-1479409200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:South China Sea: Hague and Aftermath
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nAndrew Loewenstein\, Partner\, Foley Hoag\nPeter Dutton\, Naval War College\nMichael McDevitt\, CNA Strategic Studies\nTaylor Fravel\, MIT
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/south-china-sea-hague-and-aftermath/
LOCATION:Boston University School of Education Auditorium\, 2 Silber Way\, Boston\, MA\, 02215\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20160909T222812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160909T222812Z
UID:3394-1479466800-1479474000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:To Ransom Destiny: The Daoist Search for Deliverance in Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:Daoist destinies were mortgaged from birth – by guilt inherited from the past\, debts owed to one’s parents\, and the initial endowment of vitality. To live meant to inexorably augment the original burden. Accumulated liabilities accounted for suffering\, disease\, and ill fortune met with in this world. They presaged a diminished life span and an adverse afterlife. To ransom destiny was to make amends for liabilities incurred through a person’s own fault or by exposure to external malignant forces. The questions this talk addresses are: what was the nature of the liabilities weighing in the balance of human destiny? Which ritual measures were envisaged to obtain deliverance or improve an unfavorable outcome? How did constituencies of collective destiny form? Who were the agents of the redemptive process and what were their roles? \nSpeaker: Franciscus Verellen\, professor in the History of Daoism\, Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO)\, and member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres\, served as director of the EFEO from 2004 to 2014. He is currently head of the EFEO Hong Kong Center and a senior research fellow in the Institute of Chinese Studies\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Verellen has published widely in the fields of regional history and Daoism. He was co-editor with Kristofer Schipper of The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang (Chicago\, 2004). A new book manuscript on the notion and practice of “redeeming destiny” in medieval Daoism is currently in preparation. \n\n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/franciscus-verellen-seminar/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161118T150000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161110T225655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161110T225655Z
UID:4430-1479477600-1479481200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Inventing Nana Hsu: Creativity in Academic Writing
DESCRIPTION:In the fall of 1948\, a young woman in Shanghai left behind her high school Chinese literature textbook just as Communist forces made their way into the city and the Nationalists beat a hasty retreat to Taiwan. That textbook then moldered on some dank and dingy shelf for more than sixty years\, with a mysterious faded phrase on its front cover and the student’s numerous jottings inside.  Who was that girl and how did she live and die?  Or did she? Can she be merely a figment of our imagination? This talk will engage Nana’s textbook as an object with a life. Or perhaps\, in this case\, two lives. \nJoseph R. Allen is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies\, and Founding Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures\, University of Minnesota.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/inventing-nana-hsu-creativity-in-academic-writing/
LOCATION:Room 212\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161121T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161121T183000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161103T171509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T171509Z
UID:4351-1479747600-1479753000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Historical Geographic Background of the Silk Road
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Ge Jianxiong\, Professor of the Institute of Historical Geography\, Fudan University\, as well as the Librarian of Fudan University. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-historical-geographic-background-of-the-silk-road/
LOCATION:Fong Auditorium\, Boylston Hall\, Boylston Hall\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161122T133000
DTSTAMP:20260427T155414
CREATED:20161102T160333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161102T160333Z
UID:4320-1479816000-1479821400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Mining Industry\, Caravan Transportation and Ethnic Mobilization in southwest China from the 17th to 19th Century
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Ma Jianxiong (Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar)\nChair/discussant: Prof. Michael Szonyi (Director\, Harvard University Fairbank Center) \nHarvard-Yenching Institute Lunchtime Talk \nThis talk will review the history of silver and copper mines on the borderland between Yunnan and Burma\, in particular the social organization of miners in remote mountainous areas. Two types of ethnic mobilization among the Hui and the Lahu will be examined. These two ethnic minorities were mobilized through different channels to politically resist the Qing government in interior counties and exterior chieftains. This was due to the political influence of unemployed miners\, which arose from the decline of borderland silver mines in the early 19th century and local governments’ subsequent failure to manage social mobility as miners shifted their work to agriculture or business. The talk aims to study how cooperative transportation system networks became interwoven by different social actors in cities and mines\, especially caravan muleteers whose mobility in metal transportation and commercial circulations was bound to the development of the mining industry and ethnic politics in southwest China. Different social sections cooperated through mediators such as the caravan muleteers\, silver miners and exiled monks. In general\, this talk will explain the historical reconstruction of borderland society in southwest China\, showing how ethnic mobilization was a social consequence of economic and political transformation resulting from the extension of state governance in mountain areas from the Ming to the Qing. \nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/mining-industry-caravan-transportation-and-ethnic-mobilization-southwest-china-17th-19th
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-mining-industry-caravan-transportation-and-ethnic-mobilization-in-southwest-china-from-the-17th-to-19th-century/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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UID:4423-1480348800-1480356000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Working with Looted Manuscripts: A Vindication of the Peking University Han Bamboo Strips
DESCRIPTION:Over the last two decades\, remarkable collections of Warring States\, Qin and Han manuscripts have been purchased on the behalf of major academic institutions in China\, offering exciting new materials that have the potential to dramatically impact the study of early China. By the same token\, these collections also present a great risk to our field\, should they prove to be forgeries. With so much at stake\, it is important not only to discuss candidly the authentication of purchased manuscripts\, but also to reflect upon the role our scholarship plays in enticing continued looting. In this talk\, I introduce the immense value of one such collection\, the Peking University Han bamboo strips\, and make an argument for both its antiquity and further study. Recently\, it has been proposed that the Peking University Laozi 老子manuscript is in fact a forgery. Drawing in part from my own observations of the artifact\, I refute this accusation. An initial methodology for positively authenticating the Peking University Han manuscripts is also offered\, and content from the Cang Jie Pian 蒼頡篇– another manuscript in this cache that is the focus of my research – is raised in particular as a case study. Having established confidence in the antiquity of these texts\, ethical concerns over the study of purchased artifacts are then addressed\, giving voice to the “rescue archaeology” orientation largely adopted in Chinese scholarship. My hope is to inspire a more open dialogue over how to engage the Peking University Han manuscripts responsibly in our research\, as they are simply too important for scholars to ignore. \nSpeaker: Christopher Foster is a PhD candidate in Harvard University’s East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department. His dissertation\, “Textual Production in Early China: A Study of the Cang Jie Pian Character Book\,” utilizes newly excavated manuscript sources to evaluate the role of writing during the Western Han period.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/working-with-looted-manuscripts-a-vindication-of-the-peking-university-han-bamboo-strips/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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CREATED:20161118T150854Z
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UID:4463-1480348800-1480356000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The World of Universities in the 21st Century - Two Case Studies: UC-Berkeley & Hong Kong University
DESCRIPTION:William Kirby\, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University \nCommentators:\nCharles S. Maier\, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History\, Harvard University\nSugata Bose\, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History\, Harvard University\nAniket De\, PhD Candidate in History\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-world-of-universities-in-the-21st-century-two-case-studies-uc-berkeley-hong-kong-university/
LOCATION:Lower Level Library\, Robinson Hall\, 35 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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UID:3397-1480417200-1480424400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers\, Western Economists\, and the Making of Global China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Julian Gewirtz ’13  \nJulian Gewirtz will discuss his forthcoming book\, Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers\, Western Economists\, and the Making of Global China\, which Harvard University Press will publish in January. Writing for the New Yorker\, Evan Osnos summarizes: “The book tells the little-known story of how Chinese intellectuals and leaders\, facing a ruined economy at the end of the Cultural Revolution\, sought the help of foreign economists to rebuild. Between 1976 and 1993\, in a series of exchanges\, conferences\, and collaborations\, Western intellectuals sought not to change China but to help it change itself\, and they made indispensable contributions to China’s rise as a global economic power.”
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/unlikely-partners-chinese-reformers-western-economists-and-the-making-of-global-china/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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CREATED:20161102T160722Z
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UID:4323-1480420800-1480426200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Exile and Diplomacy of the 13th Dalai Lama (1904-1912): Tibet's Encounters with the US and Japan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Kobayashi Ryosuke (Toyo Bunko; HYI Visiting Scholar)\nChair/discussant: Prof. Leonard van der Kuijp (Harvard University)\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk \nThis talk will show how Tibet attempted to participate in the international community around the demise of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 by focusing on its relationships with the US and Japan. The sojourns of the 13th Dalai Lama (1876-1933) to Mongolia\, China and India from 1904 to 1912 were remarkable turning points that led him to reconsider the deteriorating relationship with the Qing dynasty and China and to begin participating in the modern international community. Through encounters with foreign dignitaries from Britain\, Russia\, the US and Japan\, the Dalai Lama\, who had never before been away from Tibet\, developed his understanding of the international community and of Tibet’s position in the world. This talk will discuss how the Dalai Lama conducted his diplomacy with the U.S. and Japan\, two newly influential countries in East Asia at the end of 19th century\, and how those countries dealt with Tibetan issues. \nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/exile-and-diplomacy-13th-dalai-lama-1904-1912-tibets-encounters-us-and-japan
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-exile-and-diplomacy-of-the-13th-dalai-lama-1904-1912-tibets-encounters-with-the-us-and-japan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161130T140000
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CREATED:20161116T173731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161116T173731Z
UID:4446-1480509000-1480514400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Beijing Faces its Periphery: Update on Hong Kong and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Richard Bush\, Brookings Institution: Senior Fellow\, the Richard H. Armacost Chair\, the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies\,  Director of  the Center for East Asia Policy Studies\, and Senior Fellow\, Foreign Policy\, John L. Thornton China Center;  former Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan \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/periphery/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Events of Interest,Taiwan Studies
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161130T170000
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CREATED:20161116T174415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161116T174415Z
UID:4449-1480519800-1480525200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Competing Air Quality and Water Conservation Co-Benefits from Power Sector Decarbonization in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: PENG Wei\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nCo-sponsored by the China Project\, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program\, Harvard Kennedy School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/competing-air-quality-and-water-conservation-co-benefits-from-power-sector-decarbonization-in-china/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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