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SUMMARY:Paul Clifford: The China Paradox - At the Front Line of Economic Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul Clifford\, Author\nRespondent: Jie Bae\, Harvard Kennedy School\nModerator: Tony Saich\, Harvard Kennedy School \nHKS Professor Jie Bae will serve as a respondent\, and Tony Saich will moderate. The event will be next Thursday\, 3/1\, 4:15-5:30 at the Ash Center. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/paul-clifford-the-china-paradox-at-the-front-line-of-economic-transformation/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T140000
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SUMMARY:Stalemate Across the Taiwan Strait: A Trip Report
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nMichael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nSteven Goldstein\, Sophia Smith Professor of Government\, Emeritus\, Smith College\nRobert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/stalemate-across-the-taiwan-strait-a-trip-report/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180305T160000
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SUMMARY:Eric Greene - Repentance in the Formation of Chinese Buddhism
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eric Greene\, Yale University \nThe ritual activity that in China was known as chanhui 懺悔 – often understood to mean “confession” or “repentance” – was without doubt one the central forms of Buddhist practice in medieval China. Despite this\, scholars have often disagreed concerning\, firstly\, what “repentance” even means in the Chinese or Buddhist contexts\, as well as the best way of understanding the relationship between Chinese Buddhist chanhui and its Indian Buddhist antecedents on the one hand\, and pre-Buddhist Chinese religious ideologies on the other. In this talk I will attempt to offer some new ways of thinking about some of these questions that will help us understand how “repentance” came to serve within early medieval Chinese Buddhism (roughly 200-600 AD) not so much as one mode of Buddhist activity among many\, but as a unifying frame for understanding the ultimate point of all forms of Buddhist practice whatsoever. \nEric Greene is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from Berkeley in 1998\, followed by his M.A. (Asian Studies) and Ph.D. (Buddhist Studies) in 2012. He specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism\, particularly the emergence of Chinese forms of Buddhism from the interaction between Indian Buddhism and indigenous Chinese culture. Much of his recent research has focused on Buddhist meditation practices\, including the history of the transmission on Indian meditation practices to China\, the development of distinctly Chinese forms of Buddhist meditation\, and Buddhist rituals of confession and atonement. He is currently writing a book on the uses of meditative visionary experience as evidence of sanctity within early Chinese Buddhism. In addition to these topics\, he has published articles on the early history of Chan (Zen) Buddhism\, Buddhist paintings from the Silk Roads\, and the influence of modern psychological terminology on the Western interpretation of Buddhism. He is also presently working on a new project concerning the practice of translation – from Indian languages to Chinese – in early Chinese Buddhism. He teaches undergraduate classes on Buddhism in East Asia\, Zen Buddhism\, ritual in East Asian Buddhism\, and mysticism and meditation in Buddhism and East Asia\, and graduate seminars on Chinese Buddhist studies and Chinese Buddhist texts. \nAfter completing his Ph.D. in 2012\, Eric took a position at the University of Bristol (UK)\, where he taught East Asian Religions until coming to Yale in 2015.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/buddhist-studies-forum-2018-03-05/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum,China Humanities Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T133000
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SUMMARY:Wang Liping - More than Affirmative Action: China’s Preferential Policy in Historical and Comparative Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Liping\,  Peking University; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\nChair/discussant: Lei Ya-Wen\,  Harvard University \nWith the ethical appeal of equality and justice as well as a more cohesive society\, affirmative action has been in place for many years around the world. Such measures\, going by various names depending on the context and perceived acceptability\, have attained their goals to varying degrees in different countries even though the debates around them are never silenced. In many countries adopting such policies\, the political logic of preferential policies has long influenced policy construction and a dilemma ensues: affirmative policies are enduring or even expanding while doubts and questions about such measures are bubbling up. With the rapid increase in diversity in many dimensions\, old and new\, the situation in China is more pressing. The talk will focus on China’s preferential policies in historical and comparative perspective\, hoping to gain a better understanding of such policies and to advance more constructive discussions about the affirmative action dilemma in China and beyond. \nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/more-affirmative-action-china-s-preferential-policy-historical-and-comparative-perspective \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-liping-more-than-affirmative-action-chinas-preferential-policy-in-historical-and-comparative-perspective/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Bilahari Kausikan: US-China Competition for Influence in Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Bilahari Kausikan\, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, Singapore \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-02-21/
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,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Stephen Owen: Translation in its Kinds
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stephen Owen\, EALC\, Harvard University \nThe Poetry of Du Fu:\nThe Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. Scholars know that there is scarcely a Du Fu poem whose interpretation is uncontested. A reader with a basic understanding of the language of Chinese poetry can use this to facilitate reading Du Fu\, which can present problems for even the most learned reader. \nThe Poetry of Ruan Ji:\nThe poetry of Ruan Ji has been previously translated several times\, with one fully scholarly translation of both the poetry and the Fu (poetic expositions). The present translation not only provides a facing page critical Chinese text\, it addresses two problems that have been ignored or not adequately treated in earlier works.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/stephen-owen-translation-in-its-kinds/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180307T160000
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SUMMARY:Those Waters Giving Way
DESCRIPTION:An overview of Michael Cherney’s artistic process and recent works. The art combines photography with the subject matter\, aesthetics\, materials and formats traditionally associated with classical Chinese painting\, which allows for viewing the present day environment and landscape in China through the lens of art history. In addition to the presentation\, the artist will guide the audience through viewing several handscrolls\, albums and other works \n“One would be hard-pressed to find a ‘more Chinese’ artist than Qiu Mai (Michael Cherney). Photographer\, calligrapher\, and book artist\, Qiu Mai’s work is done with the great sophistication that draws on the subtleties of China’s most scholarly and esoteric traditions. Based in Beijing and a successful artist whose works have been collected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Asian Art (the first photographic works ever to enter the collection of that department)\, Qiu Mai’s art is less provocative than it is intellectually engaging\, meditative\, and often simply beautiful.  What is provocative is his identity:  Qiu Mai is the Chinese name for Michael Cherney\, born in New York of Jewish parentage. Cherney’s work is the cutting-edge demonstration of artistic globalization:  if Asian artists can so readily ‘come West\,’ then what is to prevent large numbers of future Western artists from ‘going Asian’? Or\, like Qiu Mai/Michael Cherney\, going both ways at once\, both American and Chinese\, modern and traditional.”\n– Jerome Silbergeld\, P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History\, Princeton University \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/those-waters-giving-way/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment,Events of Interest,Exhibitions,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T120000
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SUMMARY:Joseph Esherick: Bandits and Bolsheviks: the Shaanxi-Gansu Base Area before Mao
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph W. Esherick\, Professor Emeritus\, University of California\, San Diego \nIn the fall of 1935\, Mao read a newspaper article about a Communist base in Northern Shaanxi. He redirected the Long March to that base\, which would become the Yan’an-centered “revolutionary holy land” from which the Chinese Communist Party would rise to power during the War of Resistance against Japan and the following Civil War. Yan’an during the war provided Mao and his colleagues an unprecedented degree of security\, and that era has been much studied. We know much less about the formation of the base that provided him sanctuary.  That is the subject of Esherick’s inquiry. \nJoseph W. Esherick is a social historian of social movements in modern China. His dissertation and first monograph\, Reform and Revolution in China: the 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei explored the social background of China’s republican revolution.  His book on The Origins of the Boxer Uprising won the Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.  His most recent monograph\, Ancestral Leaves\, explored the tumultuous history of nineteenth and twentieth-century China through the successive generations of one family.  In 1988\, Esherick began a project on the Chinese Communist revolution in Northern Shaanxi\, then set it aside for many years in hopes of greater archival access. That hope never materialized\, and he has now returned to the project with such documentary and fieldwork materials he has been able to obtain. After forty years of teaching at the University of Oregon and the University of California at San Diego\, Esherick retired in 2012 and now lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/joseph-esherick-bandits-and-bolsheviks-the-shaanxi-gansu-base-area-before-mao/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180320T170000
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SUMMARY:The Rise of New  Religions in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nHelen Hardacre\, Harvard University\nAdam Lyons\, Harvard University\nFrank Korom\, Boston University\nAmanda Lucia\, University of California Riverside\nRobert Hefner\, Boston University\nJuliane Schober\, Arizona State University\nGareth Fisher\, Syracuse University\nChien-yu Julia Huang\, City Colleges of Chicago\nWei-ping Lin\, National Taiwan University\n\n\nMore Info: www.bu.edu/asian/2018/01/03/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T133000
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SUMMARY:Gu Zheng - The Body as a Means for Political Mobilization: Portrait Photography between Journalism and Propaganda and Minli Pao’s coverage of the assassination of Song Jiaoren
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gu Zheng\, Fudan University; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\nChair/discussant: Eugene Wang\, Harvard University \nSong Jiaoren (Sung Chiao-jen\, 1882-1913) was a revolutionist and founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). He was assassinated in March 1913 in Shanghai after leading the KMT to victory in China’s first democratic election. This talk will investigate how members of the KMT who owned the Minli Pao (民立报)\, published in Shanghai as both a mouthpiece of the revolutionary party and mass media\, produced and used images of Song’s corpse for the purpose of mobilizing the masses to protest the assassination. This talk will explore portrait photography’s function and practice between propaganda and journalism\, and its usage as a means of visual mobilization from three aspects: production\, distribution and consumption in Republican Shanghai. \nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gu-zheng-the-body-as-a-means-for-political-mobilization-portrait-photography-between-journalism-and-propaganda-and-minli-paos-coverage-of-the-assassination-of-song-jiaoren/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180319T170000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Popular Culture at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\n Zheng Yanqing\,  Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: “Popular Culture and the Public Sphere”\nShao Yanjun\, Peking University:  “Internet Fiction and Imagined Community”\nChristopher Rea\, University of British Columbia: “Of Spongers\, Sharpers\, and Cannibal Eunuchs: The Swindle Story around the World.” \nThe event is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-popular-culture-at-the-beginning-of-the-20th-and-21st-centuries/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu - When Fantastic Narrative Encounters Empirical Knowledge: Imagining the World in "The Eunuch Sanbao's Voyage to the Western Ocean"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Evelyn (Chiung-yun) Liu\,  Academia Sinica\, HYI Visiting Scholar \nThe Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyage to the Western Ocean\, a late-sixteenth century novel loosely based on the historical expeditions commanded by Zheng He (1371-1433)\, is a peculiar mixture of factual accounts of foreign lands and fantastic narrative. In this work\, popular Buddhist and Daoist figures living in a mythological landscape encounter a new worldview based on firsthand geographical accounts of maritime voyages recorded as early as the fourteenth century. While the novel is often regarded as a literary failure\, a hodgepodge in which the author imitates and copies earlier texts and jumbles them together\, this talk proposes to understand such “failure” as a multi-faceted response to the rapidly expanding cognitive sphere of that time. Taking the novel as a cultural product of the late Ming book market\, we will examine the author’s choices of source materials in connection to his target reader\, the strategies he employs to maneuver between the exotic and the familiar\, and the epistemological disjunctions he faces in the attempt to create a narrative that encompasses “the end of the Western Ocean.”  We will also look at the possible changes in the conception of “the world” revealed through the ways in which the author negotiates between empirical geography and Buddhist/Daoist cosmologies. \nChiung-yun Evelyn Liu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan. She earned her B.A. from National Taiwan University\, M.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her research interests include literature of the fantastic\, mediations on historical memory\, and the intersection of knowledge production\, cultural imagination and psychological responses to the foreign in late imperial China. She is completing a book manuscript\, which investigates how moral value\, memory politics\, literary sensibility and commercial media worked together in shaping and transforming historical memories. Her next project explores the function of sentiment in the process of knowledge reception and reformulation; particularly how Chinese literati coped with turbulent dynastic transitions and unsettling cross-cultural encounters through encyclopedic writing as means of reordering and comprehending the changing world.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2018-02-26/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - China's Van Goghs
DESCRIPTION:The documentary screening will be followed by a Q&A with Producer and Director Kiki Tianqi Yu via Skype\, moderated by Benny Shaffer\, PhD Candidate in Media Anthropology. \n About the film:\nChina’s Van Goghs (Mandarin with English subtitles\, 80 min\, HD) \nUntil 1989\, Dafen Village on the outskirts of Shenzhen\, China was little more than a rural hamlet. It now has a population of 10\,000\, which includes hundreds of peasants-turned-oil painters. In their studios\, and even in its alleyways\, Dafen’s painters produce thousands of replicas of world-famous Western paintings. No one thinks much of an order for 200 Van Goghs. To meet deadlines\, painters sleep on the floor between clotheslines strung with reproduced masterpieces. In 2015\, the revenue from painting sales was over $65 million. In China’s Van Goghs\, directors Haibo Yu and Kiki Tianqi Yu follow one of the village’s most celebrated painters\, Xiaoyong Zhao\, who with the help of his family members has painted around 100\,000 Van Goghs. After all these years\, Zhao feels a profound affinity with Van Gogh. Having never seen Van Gogh’s original paintings\, Zhao’s biggest dream is to travel to Amsterdam to see the works of his legendary inspiration. After struggling and saving up for many years\, he fulfills his dream. The documentary not only presents how this painter pursues his vision\, but also tells the human story of challenge and struggle throughout his journey\, which is ultimately emblematic of the transformative journey that China is undergoing from “Made in China” to “Created in China.” \nAfter its premier at International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2016\, China’s Van Goghs has been shown at Helsinki Documentary Film Festival DocPoint\, Thessaloniki Film Festival\,  Visions Du Reel\, New Zealand International Film Festival\, DMZ Docs South Korea\, British Film Institute London’s special program\, and over twenty other film festivals. It has won Best Feature Documentary (international co-production) at Beijing International Film Festival and Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival\, as well as Best Feature Documentary at Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival. \nAbout the Directors: \nProducer and Co-director:\nKiki Tianqi YU is a filmmaker\, scholar\, and film curator. Originally from China\, Kiki studied film and sociology at the University of Westminster and the University of Cambridge. Having lectured in China\, she is currently Lecturer in Filmmaking at the University of the West of Scotland. Yu has published on first person documentary\, Chinese cinema\, amateur cinema and memory in Studies in Documentary Film\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art\, and other publications. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph My ‘Self’ On Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualizing China (Edinburg University Press\, 2018)\, and the co-editor of China’s iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the 21st Century (2014). Her films include Photographing Shenzhen (2007)\, Memory of Home (2009)\, and the feature-length documentary China’s Van Goghs (IDFA\, 2016)\, which won seven international awards and screened at over twenty film festivals. \nCo-director and Cinematographer:\nYU Haibo is a filmmaker and a well-known Chinese documentary photographer. He serves as the Director of the Shenzhen Professional Photographers Association and the Chief Photo Editor of Shenzhen Economic Daily. His most prominent photo series\, “China Dafen Oil Painting Village\,” won the 49th World Press Photography Contest in 2006\, and was acquired by the San Francisco Modern Art Museum\, and V&A Museum\, London. Yu is a pioneer in surrealist photography in China through his work “On the Other Riverside of the Illusion Chain\,” which won the top prize at the 15th National Photography Exhibition in 1988. Since 1989\, he has been working on documentary photography\, and his photo series including “Tibet\,” “Music Youth\,” “China’s Urban Expansion\,” have won many prizes and been exhibited internationally. Yu published a book Living in China’s Shenzhen (2008)\, and a photo-essay film One Man’s Shenzhen (2012). \nThis event is sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Emergent Visions is a screening and discussion series that showcases new and innovative works of digital cinema from China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-chinas-van-goghs/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Kishore Mahbubani - Is the Chinese Government Legitimate?
DESCRIPTION:Read a summary of the event here. \nSpeaker: Kishore Mahbubani\, National University of Singapore
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kishore-mahbubani-is-the-chinese-government-legitimate/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Nathan Vedal - Philology as a Discipline in Pre-Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nathan Vedal\, Visiting Fellow\, Center for Humanities and Information\, Penn State \nOrganizer: Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice\, Harvard University GSAS Workshop 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nathan-vedal-philology-as-a-science-in-pre-modern-china/
LOCATION:Boylston Hall Room 203\, Boylston Hall\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Jing Tsu - Thinking Small in the Literary Cosmos
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jing Tsu\, Yale University \nMore than ten years after Sinophone studies\, is it breaking up?  This talk begins with a recent skirmish over the fraught term and its export.  In the attempt to bring faraway and neglected kins into its fold\, Sinophone studies is facing open resistance where writers are choosing not to belong or subscribe.  Yet\, this talk suggests\, it is a good thing when literary relations come to an end\, because it signals a readiness to be disenchanted with a fixed topic.  The plethora of contemporary Chinese literature has far exceeded any of our explanatory frameworks\, and its direction is no longer sustained by the diasporic obsession with saying yes or no to Chineseness from any locale\, or turning to Sinophone studies.  What literary scale\, then\, are we entering into as the ceiling is being lifted from the China narrative?  Is it a technological world beyond worlds\, or still an ideological world in a teacup?  I discuss the works and engagement of one of the most unexpected literary meterorites of recent times\, Liu Cixin\, the first Chinese and Asian to win the Victor Hugo Prize for Science Fiction.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-jing-tsu/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Jeff Wasserstrom and Maura Cunningham — China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham \nHarvard Coop Book Talk \nIn this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®\, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world’s newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China’s meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legacies – Confucian thought\, Western and Japanese imperialism\, the Mao era\, and the Tiananmen Square massacre – that largely define China’s present-day trajectory\, Wasserstrom and Cunningham introduce readers to the Chinese Communist Party\, the building boom in Shanghai\, and the environmental fallout of rapid Chinese industrialization. They also explain unique aspects of Chinese culture\, such as the one-child policy\, and provide insight into Chinese-American relations\, a subject that has become increasingly fraught during the Trump era. As Wasserstrom and Cunningham draw parallels between China and other industrialized nations during their periods of development\, in particular the United States during its rapid industrialization in the 19th century\, they also predict how we might expect China to act in the future vis-à-vis the United States\, Russia\, India\, and its East Asian neighbors. \nUpdated to include perspectives on Hong Kong’s shifting political status\, as well as an expanded discussion of President Xi Jinping’s time in office\, China in the 21st Century provides a concise and insightful introduction to this significant global power. \nMaura Elizabeth Cunningham is a writer and historian of modern China. She is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s University (B.A.\, 2004)\, Yale University (M.A.\, 2006)\, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies (graduate certificate\, 2008)\, and the University of California\, Irvine (Ph.D.\, 2014). Maura was the editor-in-chief of The China Beat\, a blog based at UC Irvine\, between 2009 and 2012\, and associate editor of ChinaFile during a fellowship at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations in 2011-12. From 2014 to 2016\, Maura served as a program officer at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations\, where she co-directed the Public Intellectuals Program; in 2016\, she became the digital media manager at the Association for Asian Studies. As a writer\, her work has appeared at the Wall Street Journal\, the Financial Times\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and other publications. \nJeffrey Wasserstrom is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz (B.A.\, 1982)\, Harvard (A.M.\, 1984)\, and Berkeley (Ph.D.\,1989)\, and he is now Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine. He has written five books\, the most recent of which are Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin\, 2016) and the third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford\, 2018). He has also edited or co-edited several other books\, including The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (2016). In addition to writing for academic journals\, he has contributed to many general interest venues\, among them the New York Times\, the TLS\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). He is an academic editor of LARB’s China Channel and the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jeff-wasserstrom-and-maura-cunningham-china-in-the-21st-century-what-everyone-needs-to-know/
LOCATION:Harvard Coop\, 1400 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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SUMMARY:I-Mei Hung - Encountering DocuSky: Right Here Right Now
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: I-Mei Hung\, Research Center for Digital Humanities\, National Taiwan University \nDigital China Initiative Workshop Series  \n我們正在經歷一個橋接的世代，一個從傳統跨越數位的世代。 \n在2018的春天，孤獨的人文研究之路，綻放了一朵美麗的雲彩–DocuSky。 \nDocuSky數位人文學術研究平台為著人文學者的研究需要而開發，以數位科技協作人文研究。學者可上傳自己的研究材料，透過各式數位工具，進行文本格式轉換、後設資料整理，憑藉自己之力建置數位資料庫；也能夠對自己掌握的材料進行文本探勘與分析，從多元的視角，挖掘潛藏於材料中的議題線索與脈絡；在傳統的線性觀察之外，以視覺化的呈現，探索文本的時空與計量資訊。 \n此時此地，讓我們一起來遇見DocuSky~ \n(此教程由國立臺灣大學數位人文研究中心提供，中英文交互使用) \nWe’re experiencing a ‘bridge generation’\, a generation to cross over from the traditional to the digital. \nIn the spring of 2018\, on the lonely road of humanities research a scintillating cloud—DocuSky—has blossomed. \nDocuSky Collaboration Platform is designed and developed to dovetail humanities researches\, assisting research with digital technologies. Scholars can upload their own research materials and converting texts into various formats and organize metadata with various digital tools and build digital database independently. The scholars can also investigate and analyze materials one can get hold of\, and explore  the leads\, issues and contexts embedded within the materials. Apart from the traditional lineal observation\, scholars are able to visualize their research\, delving into the spatial\, temporal and quantitative data. \n(This tutorial is provided by Research Center for Digital Humanities of National Taiwan University) \n24-seat limit. Light refreshments.\nLanguage: Chinese and English\nRSVP at: https://goo.gl/aDSWnz\nQuestions: ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu\nDirections: https://cbs.fas.harvard.edu/science/core-facilities/neuroimaging/directions \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/i-mei-hung-encountering-docusky-right-here-right-now/
LOCATION:Northwest Building\, Room B129\, 52 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dennis Blair and Taylor Fravel - China\, the U.S.\, and East Asia’s Maritime Disputes
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nAdmiral Dennis Blair\, Chairman of the Board and Distinguished Senior Fellow\, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA; U.S. Director of National Intelligence (2009-10); Commander-in-Chief\, U.S. Pacific Command (1999-2002)\nTaylor Fravel\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nModerator:\nSusan Pharr\, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director\, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Harvard University \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dennis-blair-and-taylor-fravel-china-the-u-s-and-east-asias-maritime-disputes/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Scott Kennedy - The Fat Tech Dragon: Commercial and Strategic Implications of China’s Hi-Tech Drive
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Scott Kennedy\, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) \nChina’s high-tech drive has drawn both fierce criticism for being unfair and breathless praise for its recent successes. This presentation attempts to cut through the hyperbole on both sides to examine the evolution of China’s high-tech policies and its recent performance record. Chinese technology policy has indeed become more discriminatory\, but China’s actual performance record varies across sectors\, as do the implications for the United States and the global economy. American policy needs to take this mixed record into account in crafting an appropriate and effective response. \nScott Kennedy is deputy director of the Freeman Chair in China Studies and director of the Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy at CSIS. A leading authority on China’s domestic and international economic policy\, Kennedy is the author of The Fat Tech Dragon: Benchmarking China’s Innovation Drive (CSIS\, 2017); (with Chris Johnson) Perfecting China Inc.: China’s 13th Five-Year Plan (CSIS\, 2016)\, and The Business of Lobbying in China (Harvard University Press\, 2005). He has edited three books\, including Global Governance and China: The Dragon’s Learning Curve (Routledge\, 2017)\, and Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Comparative Perspectives on China’s Capitalist Transformation (Stanford University Press\, 2011). For over 14 years\, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University\, and from 2007 to 2014\, he was the director of the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business. Kennedy received his Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University\, his M.A. in China studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies\, and his B.A. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. \nThis talk is made possible through generous funding by the Consulate General of Japan in Boston.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/scott-kennedy-the-fat-tech-dragon-commercial-and-strategic-implications-of-chinas-hi-tech-drive/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Asia’s Growing Generation Gap: Causes and Consequences
DESCRIPTION:Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable \nNote: This event will begin at 4:15 pm and conclude at 6:15 pm. \nPanelists: \n\nCho Haejoang\, Emerita\, Department of Cultural Anthropology\, Yonsei University\, Korea\nIshida Hiroshi\, Institute of Social Science\, The University of Tokyo\, Japan\nTeresa Kuan\, Department of Anthropology\, Chinese University of Hong Kong\nShen Yifei\, Department of Sociology\, Fudan University\, China\n\nModerator: \n\nElizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\nThis roundtable aims to exchange ideas about the sources and possible significance of generational differences in contemporary Asia. We hope to discuss the question of how recent trends in social media\, popular culture\, education\, demography\, labor markets\, etc.\, have led to differences in identity and outlook between young people and their parents in various Asian countries\, and what the future impact of such generational differences may be. Are the younger generations of different Asian countries being drawn closer together by shared technology and popular culture\, or are they being pushed further apart by growing nationalism\, for example? \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/asia-s-growing-generation-gap-causes-and-consequences
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asias-growing-generation-gap-causes-and-consequences/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thomas Gold - An 'Old Youth' (老青年) Looks at Chinese Youth Today
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Thomas B. Gold\, University of California at Berkeley \nThomas B. Gold is Professor of Sociology at the University of California. Since 2000 he has also served as Executive Director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP)\, a consortium of 14 American universities which administers an advanced Chinese language program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. (https://ieas.berkeley.edu/iup]. At Berkeley he has also served as Associate Dean of International and Area Studies\, Founding Director of the Berkeley China Initiative\, and Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-03-28/
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,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Barry Naughton - China's Great Gamble
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Barry Naughton\, University of California San Diego \nXi Jinping is consolidating power just as China has embarked on an unprecedented push to become a global and technological power.  Xi’s followers are fashioning an economic and administrative system that they hope can achieve these ambitious goals.  Some parts of this multi-stranded program will succeed and some will fail.  The global economy—and global power relations—will depend on the balance between success and failure\, and the ways in which Chinese manages the success and failure of individual initiatives. \n\nBarry Naughton is the Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at UCSD. He is one of the world’s most highly respected economists working on China. He is an authority on the Chinese economy with an emphasis on issues relating to industry\, trade\, finance and China’s transition to a market economy. \nRecent research focuses on regional economic growth in China and its relationship to foreign trade and investment. He has addressed economic reform in Chinese cities\, trade and trade disputes between China and the United States and economic interactions among China\, Taiwan and Hong Kong. \nNaughton has written the authoritative textbook “The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth\,” which has now been translated into Chinese. His groundbreaking book “Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform\, 1978-1993” received the Ohira Memorial Prize\, and he most recently translated\, edited and annotated a collection of articles by the well-known Chinese economist Wu Jinglian. Naughton writes a quarterly analysis of the Chinese economy for China Leadership Monitor. \nPart of the China Economy Lecture Series \n  \nListen to an interview with Barry Naughton on our podcast: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this podcast here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-series-barry-naughton/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zhang Changhong - A Shift in Buddhist Iconography between the 8th and 12th Century: Rock Carvings and Mandala Murals in Eastern and Western Tibet
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Changhong\, Palace Museum\, Beijing; HYI Coordinate Research Scholar\nChair: Leonard van der Kuijp\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/shift-buddhist-iconography-between-8th-and-12th-century-rock-carvings-and-mandala-murals
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhang-changhong-a-shift-in-buddhist-iconography-between-the-8th-and-12th-century-rock-carvings-and-mandala-murals-in-eastern-and-western-tibet/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:James Palmer - China's Historical Experience and the Challenge of Covering Chinese Politics Today
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: James Palmer\, Asia Editor of Foreign Policy and author\, The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China\,\nModerator: Julian Gewirtz\, Fellow in History and Public Policy and author of Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers\, Western Economists\, and the Making of Global China \nThe event is sponsored by the Initiative on History and Public Policy\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/james-palmer-chinas-historical-experience-and-the-challenge-of-covering-chinese-politics-today/
LOCATION:Fainsod Room (324)\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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