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Speaker: Chen Zhao, recently retired as Co-Head of Macro Research, Brandywine Global Investment Management; former Partner, Managing Editor and Chief Global Strategist at BCA Research Group Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center |
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Speaker: John Pomfret, Author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present and Chinese Lessons; former Washington Post correspondent Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
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Speaker: David Barboza, New York Times reporter and 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation Join David Barboza for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of reporting from China. Prior to his selection as Knight Visiting Fellow, Barboza most recently served as Shanghai bureau chief for the Times. Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International |
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Speaker: Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Assistant Director, and Chair of the Center for the Belt and Road Initiative, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science In 2013, China’s President, Xi Jinping, proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), sometimes alternatively labeled "One Belt, One Road." The State Council authorized the
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Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein, Adjunct Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Inaugural General Counsel, AIIB (retired) Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies |
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Participants: Jessey Choo, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey TJ Hinrichs, Cornell University Antje Richter, University of Colorado Stephen Teiser, Princeton University Organizers: Michael Puett, Harvard University Robert Weller, Boston University Schedule: 10:00-11:15: Stephen Teiser, “Deceptively Simple Acts of Healing in Chinese Buddhism.” 11:15-11:30: Coffee Break 11:30-12:45: Antje Richter “Illness Narratives in Early Medieval
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Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections, organized by Professor David Der-wei Wang. |
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Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections, organized by Professor David Der-wei Wang. |
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Speaker: Andrew Kipnis, Professor of Anthropology in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University Philippe Descola argues that human societies can be categorized by the ways in which they utilize broad assumptions about interiority and physicality, where interiority refers to something similar to what Edward Tyler and James Frazer meant by
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Speaker: Carma Hinton, Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University Comments by: Gerald Peary, Suffolk University Sponsored by the BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies Center for the Study of Asia, Center for the Humanities, BU Arts Initiative, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations, the Department of World Languages & Literatures, and |
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Speaker: Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He works out of Beijing and Berlin, where he also teaches and advises academic journals and think tanks. Johnson has spent over half of the past thirty years in the Greater China region, first as a student in Beijing from 1984 to 1985, |
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Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Schmalzer's research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China. Her first book, The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008 and won the Sharlin Memorial Award from
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Speaker: Professor Carl Minzner, Fordham University School of Law Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center |
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Speaker: Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University In December of 1957, a medical delegation from the People’s Republic of China visited Japan as part of a decade-long series of semi-official cultural exchanges between the two former enemies. The delegation brought back a “Nakatani Ryōdōraku electrodermometer”—a scientific apparatus which, according to its inventor, Nakatani Yoshio, could be used |
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Speaker: Dr. James Reilly, Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center |
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Speaker: Victor Louzon, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University The February 28th Incident, as the 1947 Taiwanese rebellion against Guomindang rule and its bloody suppression are known, is perhaps the most notorious episode in modern Taiwanese history. This talk offers new insights on this event, exploring the dynamics of decolonization and demobilization |
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Professor Wenkai He, Radcliffe/Yenching Fellow, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Hong Kong University Science and Technology, Division of Social Science Chair: Professor David Howell, Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series |
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Speaker: James Stent, Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of XacBank of Mongolia. Pundits have been predicting the impending collapse of the Chinese banking system. The collapse has not happened. What have these pundits been missing? Why have their predictions not materialized? James Stent, author of China’s Banking Transformation: the Untold Story (Oxford
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Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, documentarian Zhao Liang’s new film Behemoth details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and environmental devastation driven by the totality of humankind’s desire and greed. After the screening, Director Liang will attend via Skype for a discussion with |
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The "Trump and Asia" series continues with with a look at international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia. |
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Speaker: Michael Forsythe, The New York Times Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center |
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Participants: Beverly Bossler, University of California, Davis Ron Egan, Stanford University Grace Fong, McGill University Eileen Chow, Duke University Maram Epstein, University of Oregon Xu Man, Tufts University Organized by: Wai Yee Li, Harvard University Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College AGENDA 12:45-1:00 p.m. Welcoming remarks First Panel Chair: Wai-yee Li Discussant: Xu Man
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Speaker: Amy Zhang, Fairbank Center An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow |
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Day One Focus: China and Korea from 1392 (the beginning of the Choson state) to the late 19th century May 1, 2017 | 4pm - 6pm Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street Discussant: Kirk W. Larsen, Brigham Young University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gHchhLjPBg Day Two Focus: China and Korea in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries May 2, 2017 |
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Speaker: S.E. Kile, University of Michigan Studies of Li Yu’s theorization of playwriting and theatrical performance have generally focused on his creation of a new technical vocabulary for playwriting and performance, the relationship between his theory’s tenets and his own playwriting practice, and the impact of profit-seeking on his ideas. I propose that using technology |
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Day Two Focus: Late 19th Century and 20th Century Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad was School Professor |
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Speaker: Bernard Frolic, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, York University Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
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Day Three Focus: China’s relations with North and South Korea Today Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad |
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This workshop celebrates the partnership between the Berggruen Institute and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, thereby also taking advantage of the presence of the first group of Berggruen Fellows at Harvard. The topic of the workshop, also related to a major concern of the Berggruen Institute, is “Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the |
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The East Asian Media Studies Conference will present a snapshot of a young and still-forming field of inquiry. It will provide a space for discussing the question of field formation and the interventions that such work allows for. In this respect, the conference is associated with the asia-theory-visuality conference held in Princeton in November 2015. |