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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170501T160000
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
DESCRIPTION:Day One Focus:\nChina and Korea from 1392 (the beginning of the Choson state) to the late 19th century\nMay 1\, 2017 | 4pm – 6pm \nTsai Auditorium\, CGIS South Building\, 1730 Cambridge Street \nDiscussant: Kirk W. Larsen\, Brigham Young University \n \nDay Two Focus:\nChina and Korea in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries \nMay 2\, 2017 | 4pm – 6pm \nBelfer Case Study Room\, CGIS South Building\, 1730 Cambridge Stree \nDiscussant: Ezra F. Vogel\, Harvard University \n \nDay Three Focus:\nContemporary China and the Two Koreas\nMay 3\, 2017 | 4pm – 6pm \nBelfer Case Study Room\, CGIS South Building\, 1730 Cambridge Street \nDiscussant: Sung Yoon Lee\, Tufts University \n \nSpeaker: 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. \nBefore coming to Harvard in 2015\, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  While at LSE\, he directed LSE IDEAS\, a leading center for international affairs\, diplomacy and strategy. \nProfessor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. The book\, which has been translated into fifteen languages\, also won a number of other awards.  Westad served as general editor for the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War\, and is the author of  the Penguin History of the World (now in its 6th edition).  His most recent book\, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750\, won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013. \nListen Again on the Fairbank Center Podcast:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-empire-and-righteous-nation-600-years-of-china-korea-relations/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170501T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170501T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T204030
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar: Forging a Master Key: Li Yu’s 李漁 Theory of Universal Theater
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: S.E. Kile\, University of Michigan \nStudies 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 as an analytical category to examine Li Yu’s linguistic and generic experimentation in his plays and in Xianqing ouji (Leisure Notes\, 1671) reveals calculated and strategic efforts to make it possible for his products – in this case\, his plays – to be most easily transmitted across the entire empire. \nI begin by presenting some of Li Yu’s efforts to cater to an empire-wide audience in his theorization of the language of plays: I consider first his prioritization and standardization of dialogue\, and second\, his updating of old plays and “generic translation” of plays of Northern provenance into new\, universal forms. In creating an ever more regulated generic form\, these changes made theater more accessible for audiences\, but not for playwrights or performers. To conclude\, I examine the innovative ways in which Li Yu sought to transmit performance itself through generic and technological experimentation. \n  \nS.E. Kile is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. A specialist in late Ming and early Qing literature and culture\, Kile is currently finishing a monograph on the maverick literatus Li Yu. This manuscript approaches texts as material objects and technological innovations: as things that can enfold imagined worlds and transport those lively and inventive worlds across time and space. Recent publications have appeared in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and Chinese Oral and Performing Literatures (CHINOPERL).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-forging-a-master-key-li-yus-%e6%9d%8e%e6%bc%81-theory-of-universal-theater/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170502T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170502T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T204030
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
DESCRIPTION:Day Two Focus:\nLate 19th Century and 20th Century\nSpeaker: 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. \nBefore coming to Harvard in 2015\, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  While at LSE\, he directed LSE IDEAS\, a leading center for international affairs\, diplomacy and strategy. \nProfessor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. The book\, which has been translated into fifteen languages\, also won a number of other awards.  Westad served as general editor for the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War\, and is the author of  the Penguin History of the World (now in its 6th edition).  His most recent book\, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750\, won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-empire-and-righteous-nation-600-years-of-china-korea-relations-2017-05-02/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170503T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170503T140000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Fifty Years with China - A Canadian Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bernard Frolic\, Professor Emeritus\, Department of Political Science\, York University \nCo-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-2017-05-03/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170503T160000
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series - Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
DESCRIPTION:Day Three Focus:\nChina’s relations with North and South Korea Today\nSpeaker: 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. \nBefore coming to Harvard in 2015\, Westad was School Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).  While at LSE\, he directed LSE IDEAS\, a leading center for international affairs\, diplomacy and strategy. \nProfessor Westad won the Bancroft Prize for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. The book\, which has been translated into fifteen languages\, also won a number of other awards.  Westad served as general editor for the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War\, and is the author of  the Penguin History of the World (now in its 6th edition).  His most recent book\, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750\, won the Asia Society’s book award for 2013.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reischauer-lecture-series-empire-and-righteous-nation-600-years-of-china-korea-relations-2017-05-03/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T143000
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SUMMARY:Berggruen Workshop: Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the World
DESCRIPTION: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 World.” Some of the presenters work on China in a rather straightforward way\, others don’t\, but China\, and thus Chinese thought\, concerns us all\, and increasingly so. One way or another\, the talks will address how it does. Advance reading of papers is not expected\, though papers are available for some of the talks (upon request). \nOn February 9\, 2017\, the workshop convened for a successful session\, featuring Viren Murthy\, Tongdong Bai\, and Sungmoon Kim\, before the organizers were compelled to postpone the afternoon panels due to the onset of a blizzard. These panels have now been rescheduled as a featured event that will kick off the Center’s 30th Anniversary Celebration\, May 4-6\, 2017. \n**Please register HERE no later than Monday\, April 24.** \nThursday\, May 4\, 2017\n\n10:00am – 10:15am:  Opening Remarks \nDanielle Allen\, Tongdong Bai\, and Mathias Risse\, Organizers \n\n10:15am – 11:45am:  Morning Session \nMelissa Williams\, “Minben Legitimacy\, Western Legitimacy: A Framework for Comparative Research” \nAnna Sun\, “The Irreligious Kingdom: Perceptions of Chinese Religious Life Today”\n   \n12:00pm – 1:00pm:  Lunch (on site) \n\n1:00pm – 2:15pm:  Afternoon Session \nTongdong Bai\, “A Confucian Version of Human and Animal Rights” \nMathias Risse\, “Thinking about Global Justice in the Age of the Rise of China” \n\n2:15pm:  Closing Remarks
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/berggruen-workshop-perspectives-on-chinese-thought-in-the-world/
LOCATION:Safra Center for Ethics\, 124 Mt. Auburn St.\, Suite 520N\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170506T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170507T183000
DTSTAMP:20260421T204030
CREATED:20170420T173526Z
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SUMMARY:East Asian Media Studies Conference
DESCRIPTION: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. We are hoping to create a space that breaks down the divide between presenters and the audience\, and engages everyone in the process of actively reflecting on the evolution of the field. Texts associated with the keynote will be precirculated so that the keynote addresses can serve as an opportunity for dialogue and critique; panelists will be called on to explicitly reflect on how their work relates to broader developments within the field; and graduate students will moderate lunchtime discussions on future directions in East Asian media studies. \nFor more information\, visit https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/eams.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-media-studies-conference/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170508T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T204030
CREATED:20170111T174144Z
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SUMMARY:Can Computation Change the Study of Chinese Culture and History?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Richard Jean So\, University of Chicago \nThe emergence of large corpora of digitized cultural and historical texts and new methods in text mining and analysis have made possible a new form of computational analysis for the humanities and China Studies. The question and challenge is whether these new methods and “data” will enrich our study of Chinese culture and history or simply “tell us what we already know.” In this talk\, I utilize a large corpus of Republican-era Chinese cultural and political journals and methods in Natural Language Processing to demonstrate that indeed\, computation can not only reframe and challenge existing scholarship in China Studies\, but produce radically new interpretations and arguments\, as well as entire new conceptual frameworks for the study of modern China. I specifically develop a case study focused on the evolution and transformation of the era’s cultural discourse in relation to other significant discourses\, such as politics and media. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-richard-so/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170509T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170509T133000
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CREATED:20170420T171712Z
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SUMMARY:Living on the Edge: Korean Brothels in Colonial Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jin Jungwon\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of Taiwan History\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/Discussant: Elizabeth Remick\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Tufts University\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk\, co-sponsored with the Korea Institute \nDespite its wide practice\, the sex trade and sex industry in Taiwan and Korea had never been put under governmental control before Japanese colonial rule. In the early stages of colonization\, the Japanese colonizers imposed their own laws and regulations on the two newly acquired colonies of Taiwan and Korea. Legislation stipulated that brothels and prostitutes had to be registered\, and prostitutes had to undergo regular checks for sexually transmitted diseases. \nPrevious studies on the history of colonial Korea have widely agreed that the traditional practices of the sex industry in Chosŏn Korea underwent significant changes during Japanese rule. However\, the issue of how state-regulated prostitution policies influenced Taiwanese society and shaped its sex industries requires further discussion. \nIn an attempt to understand how the Japanese state-regulated prostitution system was implemented in colonial Taiwan\, this talk focuses particularly on the emergence and spread of Korean prostitutes and brothels across Taiwan from the 1920’s onwards. By exploring the process of one-way migration of Korean prostitutes to Taiwan\, the talk seeks to bring to light the different survival strategies of Korean brothel operators in Taiwan and Korea\, and to offer new insights on the unique traits of the Taiwanese sex-trade market compared to Korea. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/living-edge-korean-brothels-colonial-taiwan
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/living-on-the-edge-korean-brothels-in-colonial-taiwan/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Gender Studies,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170510T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T204030
CREATED:20170427T180229Z
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear the Fairbank Center’s 2016-17 Visiting Scholars present on the projects that brought them to Harvard.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-presentations/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170522T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T204030
CREATED:20170517T135801Z
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SUMMARY:The U.S.\, China\, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ash Center for a discussion on the U.S.\, China\, and the Future of the Korean Peninsula with Dr. Jin Park\, a Public Policy Scholar in residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former member of the Korean National Assembly. Dr Park will be introduced by Julia Lee\, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Ash Center Director Tony Saich will serve as respondent\, and Ash Center China Programs Director Edward Cunningham will moderate. \nhttps://ash.harvard.edu/event/us-china-and-future-korean-peninsula
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-u-s-china-and-the-future-of-the-korean-peninsula/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170523T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170523T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T204030
CREATED:20170414T164958Z
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SUMMARY:Democratic Equality and Confucian Hierarchy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph Chan\, University of Hong Kong\nDiscussant: Archon Fung\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \n**Please register HERE no later than Friday\, May 12.** \nNOTE: The paper will be circulated one week in advance to all seminar participants. \nJoseph Chan is professor of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. A leading scholar in Confucian political theory and perfectionism\, Chan has published many path-breaking articles in journals such as Philosophy and Public Affairs\, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies\, History of Political Thought\, Journal of Chinese Philosophy\, and Philosophy East and West\, among others. His recent book\, Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times (Princeton University Press\, 2014)\, proposes a novel normative theory called “moderate Confucian perfectionism\,” which justifies the perfectionist promotion of the Confucian conception of the good life in a way that is compatible with pluralism\, human rights\, and personal and moral autonomy. Chan is currently working on a new book project that aims to critically examine the moral foundations of the democratic ideals of popular sovereignty\, political equality\, and the right to vote and offer an alternative normative theory\, at the heart of which lie political meritocracy and certain forms of morally justifiable hierarchy.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/democratic-equality-and-confucian-hierarchy/
LOCATION:Safra Center for Ethics\, 124 Mt. Auburn St.\, Suite 520N\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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