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SUMMARY:Lex Berman - A Practical Approach to GIS and Spatial Thinking for China Research
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lex Berman\, GIS Specialist & Web Services Manager\, Center for Geographic Analysis \nSpatial Humanities is a synthesis between traditional historical and textual research methods and the use of geographic information systems to find spatial relationships.  Exploring the spatial aspects of data\, and examining how those change over time\, we can develop interesting visualizations\, and also discover new questions to pursue in our research. In this Workshop we will introduce general concepts of spatial thinking and querying of spatial data\, browse Chinese datasets available for your research\, and provide a basic hands-on guide to using QGIS software.  The QGIS instruction will be brief\, covering how to open GIS datasets\, create thematic maps\, and prepare your maps for print publication. \n24-seat limit. Light refreshments.\nRSVP at https://goo.gl/5x3LMA\nQuestions: ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lex-berman-a-practical-approach-to-gis-and-spatial-thinking-for-china-research/
LOCATION:Northwest Building\, Room B129\, 52 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T183000
DTSTAMP:20260420T203541
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Jing Tsu - Key Strokes: What Made the Chinese Script Revolution?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jing Tsu\, Yale University \nIt is tempting to understand the Chinese script revolution of the modern era as part of a familiar narrative of vengeance.  The Chinese language was idealized then disparaged by the Europeans\, on this view\, banished then revived only to play a mere prop in different fantasies about the Orient.  That Chinese was simplified and romanized into pinyin in the twentieth century–both claimed as Mao’s achievements–merged readily with the narrative of China’s rise in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries\, especially with the new emphasis on “innovation.”  In contrast to this satisfying story\, I will talk about the underside of this history\, one that did not enjoy big moments or one-time victories in telegraphy\, typewriting\, or the digital age but drew from the energy and failures of Chinese and non-Chinese alike\, who each put a different arc on how this history could have developed–but sometimes did not.  Emerging from this process is the one change that truly changed everything\, which will be the focus of this lecture. \nJing Tsu\, a new Guggenheim Fellow\, is a literary scholar and cultural historian of modern China at Yale University. She is the first person to be tenured and become Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature at Yale\, and author of four books (two co-edited). She is currently writing a new book about how China entered the IT era\, The Kingdom of Characters: Language Wars and China’s Rise to Global Power\, a remarkable tale that uncovers what happened to the Chinese script in the age of the Western alphabet (under contract with Riverhead at Penguin Random House). Her research spans literature\, linguistics\, science and technology\, typewriting and digitalization\, diaspora studies\, migration\, nationalism\, and theories of globalization\, and she has written for The New York Times.  \nAt Yale\, Tsu is also a Senior Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies\, a member of the Executive Committee of both the Whitney Humanities Center and the Humanities Program\, as well as a faculty affiliate of WGSS (Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies) and ER&M (Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2017-12-04/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171205T120000
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SUMMARY:Daisy Yan Du - Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association\, 1937-1945
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daisy Yan Du\, Assistant Professor\, Division of Humanities\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Jie Li\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nThis talk examines animated filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (Manying\, 1937-1945)\, which played an important role in shaping wartime film culture in Northeast China and other Japanese-occupied areas such as North China and Shanghai. Some studies have been conducted on Manying films\, but they have focused on documentaries\, newsreels\, and fictional live-action films\, and do not systematically address the cinematic form of animation. Since animation is a different medium\, an in-depth study of it will provide a unique perspective from which to understand Manying and the complicated wartime culture of Manchukuo\, China\, and Japan. The major theoretical problem that this talk tries to address is the convoluted relationship between animation and politics. On the one hand\, animation\, often regarded as a fantasy art form intended for an audience of children\, is widely known for its escapist and apolitical tendencies as it features fairytales\, folklore\, and talking animals. On the other hand\, animation\, due to its kinship with caricature and cartoon\, can be used as a powerful weapon to disseminate ideologies to both children and adults. In a politically fraught time when the non-political could be highly politicized\, how do we locate and dislocate Manying and its animation on the spectrum between escapism and political propaganda? \nAnimated films to be screened during the talk:\nTerrible Lice (Kepa de shizi\, 1943\, in Chinese)\nDreaming to be Emperor (Huangdi meng\, 1947\, in Chinese)\nCapturing the Turtle in the Jar (Wengzhong zhuobie\, 1948\, in Chinese)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daisy-yan-du-plasmatic-empire-animated-filmmaking-in-the-manchukuo-film-association-1937-1945/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171206T123000
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SUMMARY:Meg Rithmire - State-Business Relations Under Xi Jinping: The End of an Era?
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nProfessor Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-10-18-2017-12-06/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171207T123000
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Burns - U.S. Foreign Policy\, Trump\, and China
DESCRIPTION:As President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief\, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? Join Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum\, Ezra Vogel\, and Odd Arne Westad\, moderated by Michael Szonyi. \nSpeaker:\nAmbassador (Ret.) Nicholas Burns\, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School; Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs \nDiscussants:\nEzra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus\, Harvard University\nOdd Arne Westad\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School\nJeeyang Rhee Baum\, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School \nModerator:\nMichael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Professor of Chinese History \n  \nListen again to this panel discussion on Soundcloud:\n \nThis event is sponsored by Harvard’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nicholas-burns-u-s-foreign-policy-trump-and-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171208T093000
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SUMMARY:Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion
DESCRIPTION:9:30 AM     Workshop Opens \n9:45-10:45     Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China \nSpeaker: Erik Mueggler\, University of Michigan \nThis paper describes the ritualization of death in a “minority” community in Yunnan Province\, China\, called Júzò in the local Tibeto-Burman language. Here\, people are heir to an extraordinary range of resources for working on the dead\, including abundant poetic language. Work on the dead takes the form of making them material and immaterial. Social personhood\, involving relations among living and dead\, is mutual entanglement through shared substance; dead persons are subjected to a long labor of disentanglement with the final goal of severing them from the shared world of matter and memory. Through work on the dead\, people assess social relations and envision the cosmological foundations of the social world. In this context\, a long history of official interventions meant to reform death ritual has been deeply consequential. \nThe focus of this paper is the assembly of fully social dead bodies in the reform era\, when death rituals were re-established after a hiatus of two decades.  To attend to the active fashioning of dead bodies is to build on the focus that the tradition of the anthropology of death has maintained on the corpse and its transformations\, while running counter to that tradition’s tendency to take dead bodies as given\, if problematic\, entities left over after death. In Júzò\, kinship begins with the assembly of dead bodies. Living bodies are made through generative relations of nurture and care; dead bodies are made through the materialization and actualization of ideal relations. Procreation and bodily health among humans and domestic animals and plants depends on life substance channeled through filial relations with dead parents. This process depends upon the successful fabrication of dead bodies out of idealized\, formal images of the relations in which the dead were once suspended in life. Through work on the dead\, the dead body is made into the image of an entire social world. This world contrasts with another social whole\, “society\,” the foundation of political discourse in the socialist era and post-socialist eras. \n11:00-12:00    Mother Ghost Seeks a Human Son-in-Law: Ghost Shrines in Taiwan \nSpeaker: Wei-ping Lin\, National Taiwan University \nThis article\, inspired by the studies of material religion\, reconsiders the concept of ghosts and the relationships they build with humans by means of a detailed analysis of a particular type of religious architecture\, namely the ghost shrine. Ghost shrines in Taiwan are usually located outside of settlements; compared to temples\, they are shabby\, isolated\, and off the beaten track. By studying the material composition\, naming\, and rites of these shrines\, this paper will show how ghosts are conceived of as asocial and individual beings\, gathering mostly in single-sexed groups. This forms the basis for understanding the central incident investigated here of a “mother ghost seeking a human son-in-law.” In contrast to previous research that describes human-ghost relations in terms of the troublemaking and threatening roles of ghosts\, this story importantly shows that it is not only ghosts who take advantage of human beings. Motivated by greed\, humans also cross the spatial boundary separating humans and ghosts to coerce the latter for their own selfish ends. By dramatizing the gender contrast of ghosts and humans\, the story of the mother ghost epitomizes people’s ridicule and condemnation of human greed. \n12:00 PM      Lunch on your own \n1:30-2:30     Envisioning Paradise: Maitreya’s Utopia in Medieval Mural Paintings at Dunhuang \nSpeaker: April Hughes\, Boston University \nMaitreya Buddha’s terrestrial paradise was one possible afterlife for medieval practitioners.  My paper considers how Maitreya’s earthly utopia was imagined visually in the cave-temple mural paintings at Dunhuang by examining the following episodes: the three assemblies; scenes related to the Wheel-Turning King; and scenes of daily life in the paradise.  I argue that in retelling the Maitreya story the artists established a distinct version of the narrative.  In these murals\, the painters not only opted to depict specific scenes from the broader Maitreya story\, they also modified and enhanced elements that were derived from the canonical scriptures. \n2:45-3:45     The Stuff of Power:  Politics\, Ideology\, and Virtue in China’s Mid-19th Century Civil War \nSpeaker: Tobie Meyer-Fong\, Johns Hopkins University \nA military handbook compiled in central China during the Taiping Civil War dedicates significant attention to the physical appearance\, practical function\, moral affinities\, and political power of material artifacts mobilized by or against the Taiping cause.  The objects are never presented as politically neutral; they reveal absolute ‘moral truths’ otherwise obscured by the fog of war. First\, the authors use things (of power) to elevate and denigrate the Taiping polity as an aspiring\, but ultimately failed\, dynastic regime.  To that end\, they catalogue and in many cases illustrate the politically charged objects in circulation in Taiping territory. At the same time\, the legitimacy of these politically charged artifacts had to be negated; they had to be fake\, flimsy\, or insufficient.  Second\, the authors use objects\, including food and clothing\, to document social and regional difference\, and thus to reveal the Taiping and their adherents as a core group of violent and uncouth savages surrounded by an outer layer of coerced captives looking to flee.  Finally\, the handbook describes manifestations of virtue in the material world by way of the strange behavior of objects\, including especially human remains. Here\, the textual representation of material objects produced moral and political boundaries between self and other\, orthodox and heterodox\, civilized and savage.  A consideration of how objects functioned in this text provides insight into how the authors of this text\, and by extension\, the Qing and their militia allies\, used “things” to articulate their ideological and strategic agendas in the context of the Taiping Civil War. \n4:00-5:00     Texts and Objects in Statues: New Vantage Points onto Chinese Local Religion \nSpeaker: James Robson\, Harvard University  \nOver the past ten years or so I have been involved with a large-scale collaborative research project on small polychrome statuettes from Hunan province.  The first phase of the project involved cataloguing five collections of statues that total around 8\,000 images.  Now that the cataloguing is completed we are able to move into the next phase of analysis. What is most distinctive—and of scholarly importance—about these images is that they have a small niche carved into the back that contains (among other things) materia medica and manuscripts that were interred at the time of consecration. The manuscripts provide us with an unprecedented amount of information about the date of the image\, its precise provenance\, the patrons\, and the reasons for the statue’s consecration. Scholars of Chinese religion are often frustrated by the fact their sources only allow them access to rather elite levels of practice. These statuettes\, dating from the Qing dynasty to the present\, however\, take us down to the level of village and even domestic religious practice.  In this talk\, I intend to tack back and forth between the documents inside of the statues and what we can know from other types of local sources to see what new vantage points they provide us onto the local religious landscape of Hunan province. I also intend to introduce some recent research the I have done on some of the non-textual objects inside the statues and how we might also utilize them in developing a more complete sense of the contours of that religious landscape.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-religions-workshop/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171212T180000
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SUMMARY:Yasheng Huang - China’s Venture Capital Industry: Examining Its Role in Funding Start-ups
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yasheng Huang\, International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business and Professor of Global Economics and Management\, MIT Sloan School of Management
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yasheng-huang-china-economy-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171213T120000
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SUMMARY:Kevin O'Brien - China's Disaffected Insiders
DESCRIPTION:Event Summary \nSpeaker: Professor Kevin O’Brien\, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies; Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science; Director\, Institute of East Asian Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-2-2017-12-13/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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