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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T120000
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DTSTAMP:20260428T034158
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SUMMARY:Reporting on Asia - A Discussion with Four Nieman Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nGlenda M. Gloria\, Managing Editor and Co-Founder of Rappler\, Philippines social news network\nShalini Singh\, Features Reporter\, New Delhi\, India; former reporter for The Week and the Hindustan Times; founding trustee at the People’s Archive of Rural India\nBonny Symons-Brown\, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; former TV news anchor\, Jakarta\, Indonesia\nEdward Wong\, The New York Times; former New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief and Iraq correspondent \nChair:\nKaren Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \nAsia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reporting-on-asia-a-discussion-with-four-nieman-fellows/
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:20180402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180402T173000
DTSTAMP:20260428T034158
CREATED:20180320T175300Z
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SUMMARY:Gao Xiaosong - The Story of a Private Library in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gao Xiaosong\,  Director\, Za Library\, Beijing\, China \nModerator: Xiaofei Tian\,  Professor of Chinese Literature\, EALC\, Harvard \nMr. Gao Xiaosong 高曉松\, director of Za shu guan 雜書館\, will speak on the Za Library\, one of the largest private libraries open to the public in China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gao-xiaosong-the-story-of-a-private-library-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T034158
CREATED:20180226T175749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180226T175749Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Sidel - China and Overseas NGOs and Foundations: New Frameworks and New Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mark Sidel\, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\nModerator: Anthony Saich\, Harvard Kennedy School \nhttps://ash.harvard.edu/event/future-chinese-civil-society-foreign-ngos?admin_panel=1 \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mark-sidel-china-and-overseas-ngos-and-foundations-new-frameworks-and-new-challenges/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T140000
DTSTAMP:20260428T034158
CREATED:20170919T162825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170919T162825Z
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SUMMARY:Dwight Perkins - How to Measure China's Economic Reform
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Dwight Perkins\, Harvard University \nDwight H. Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy of Harvard University\, where he joined the faculty in 1963. Previous positions at Harvard include Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy\, 1963-2006; Associate Director of the Fairbank Center\, 1973-1977; chairman of the Department of Economics\, 1977-1980; Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID)\, the University’s former multi-disciplinary institute for research\, teaching\, and technical assistance on development policy\,1980-1995; and Director of the Harvard University Asia Center\, 2002-2005.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-04-04/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T140000
DTSTAMP:20260428T034158
CREATED:20180326T172946Z
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SUMMARY:Hongtu Chen - The Aging Population in China and the Development of the Care Workforce
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Hongtu Chen\, Associate\, Harvard University Asia Center; Assistant Professor of Psychology\, Department of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School\nChair: Professor Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School \nAsia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hongtu-chen-the-aging-population-in-china-and-the-development-of-the-care-workforce/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180406T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180407T143000
DTSTAMP:20260428T034158
CREATED:20180329T181246Z
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SUMMARY:Chinese Ecologies - An International Symposium on the Environment and Indigeneity
DESCRIPTION:April 6\nTsai Auditorium\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge Street \n13:00-13:10                Welcome Remarks \n13:10-14:25               Panel 1: Articulating the Polemics of the Anthropocene\nChair:  Karen Thornber (Harvard University)\nHaiyan Lee (Stanford University): Through Thick and Thin: The Romance of the Species in the Anthropocene\nChristopher Coggins (Bard College at Simon’s Rock): Rethinking “Environment” and “Indigenous:” the Persistence of Imperial Indigeneity\nQilin Long (Guangzhou University): Ecological Disaster and the Writing Style of Chinese Contemporary Literature in the New Century \n14:40-15:40                Keynote – Chen Qiufan\nIntroductions\, David Wang with Mingwei Song \n16:00-18:00                Screening of “Knife in the Clear Water” (清水裡的刀子; 2016)\, Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nApril 7\nBelfer Case Study Room\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge Street \n9:30-10:30                  Keynote – Wu Mingyi (National Dong Hwa University)\nIntroductions\, David Wang \n10:45-12:00                Panel 2 – Environment and Indigeneity in Taiwan\nChair: Robin Visser (University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill)\nYu-lin Lee  (National Chung-hsing University): The Symbiosis between Ecology and Indigeneity: Wu Ming-yi and the Fabulation of an Island\nDingru Huang (Harvard University): Liberating “Nature” from Nature Writing: Knowledge\, Fiction\, and “the Ecology without Nature” in The Stolen Bicycle\nChia-rong Wu (Rhodes College): Beyond Mountain and Sea: The Reconstruction of Indigeneity in Literary Taiwan \n12:00-13:00                Lunch Break \n13:00-14:15                Panel 3 – Indigenous Practices from within the Sinosphere\nChair: Yu-lin Lee (National Chung-hsing University)\nRobin Visser (UNC Chapel Hill) :Indigenous Knowledge of Local Ecosystems in Fiction of Inner Mongolia\nKyle Shernuk (Harvard University) The Sinophone Connection: Discursive Ethnic Mobility in Dadelavan Ibau’s Farewell\, Eagle\nPeng Hai (Harvard University): Producing Indigeneity: Impoverished Media and the Natural Fertility of Organic Sounds in Knife in the Clear Water \n14:30-15:45                Panel 4 – Geopolitics and the Environment\nChair: Max Bohnenkamp (Harvard University)\nJessica Tan (Harvard University): From Indigenous Women to Indigenous Literature: Reading Liu Yichang’s Malayan Fiction\nChengpang Lee (National University of Singapore) Swallow\, Elephant\, and the Rhizomatic Chinese Communities in Sumatra\nJannis Chen (Harvard University): The Language of Love and Violence: Towards Sinophone Ecocriticism \n16:00-17:15                Panel 5 – Ethnic Articulations of Tradition in Modernity\nChair: Ling Zhang (Boston College)\nCorey Byrnes (Northwestern University): Tradition Redux\nSuyon Lee (National Taiwan University): Lanyu\, A System of Sacrifice: Geopolitics\, Environment and Indigeneity in Syaman Rapongan’s The death of Ngalumirem\nMark Bender (The Ohio State University): The Genealogy of the Sky and Earth: Environmental and Indigenous Themes in Oral Traditional and Contemporary Nuosu Yi Poetries \n17:15-17:30                Closing remarks
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-ecologies-an-international-symposium-on-the-environment-and-indigeneity/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Knife in the Clear Water
DESCRIPTION:Free screening and discussion! Co-presented by Crows & Sparrows and the Emergent Visions Series of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard\, in conjunction with the Harvard Yenching Indigeneity and Environment Symposium. \nWinner of the New Currents Award at the 2016 Busan International Film Festival and based on the story by Shi Shuqing (who also co-wrote the screenplay)\, KNIFE IN THE CLEAR WATER is a stark and breathtaking portrayal of a rural Hui Muslim community in China’s Ningxia Province. After the death of his wife and as part of the mourning process\, Ma Zishan is asked to sacrifice his only bull. Expressing with subtlety his emotional uncertainty between the call to honor the soul of his wife and his attachment to his most beloved animal\, the film becomes an exquisite and psychogeographic exploration of loss\, tradition\, and transformation in the context of this marginalized community. \nFollowing the film\, all are welcome to take part in a post-screening discussion led by Peng Hai\, Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Film History at Harvard. Peng’s research interests include cinematic representations of real social geographies in Chinese films and the interactions between popular social discourses and filmic productions in China. KNIFE IN THE CLEAR WATER forms a primary part of his dissertation research for its representations of the people and landscapes associated with the Hui Muslim minority in contemporary China. \nSYNOPSIS: In the far mountains of Ningxia province\, the old Ma Zishan and his son start mourning his wife. Loved by everyone in the village and the family\, the son wants to sacrifice their only bull for her 40 days disappearance ceremony. Zishan isn’t against it\, but his sorrow and his love for the old animal make him wonder. Even his prayers and the Imam don’t seem to erase his doubts. Until one morning the old bull stops eating and drinking. Has he seen the knife in the clear water? \nABOUT THE FILMMAKER:\nWANG Xuebo was born in December 1984. He started his film career as a producer\, with films like Pema Tseden’s THARLO. The film Premiered in Venice in 2015 and won many awards including at Tokyo FilmEx\, Golden Horse awards\, APSA\, Vesoul. Started in 2010\, KNIFE IN THE CLEAR WATER was completed in 2016\, and is the filmmaker’s first feature as a director.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/knife-in-the-clear-water/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T173000
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SUMMARY:Manoranjan Mohanty - China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty\, Council for Social Development\, New Delhi\nChair: Prof. Elizabeth Perry\, Harvard University/Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThe book provides insights into the economic and social transformation that China has undergone from 1979 to the present. Based on the author’s research in China for over three decades\, China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap shows how its ‘reform and open door’ policy evolved and helped achieve tremendous economic success. However\, it also generated serious social and environmental problems. The book presents that the consequences of this success story of growth are so strong that it has been difficult for China to change its main development path to achieve a desirable level of equity and sustainability. The author describes this as the ‘success trap’ that China is currently grappling with. The author argues that China’s reform path is grounded in the premises of the European Industrial Revolution backed by strong sociopolitical forces at home\, indicating that a major change in the development path is unlikely. However\, all indications point to a strong and prosperous China as a rising world power in the coming decades\, trying to cope with the sociopolitical problems in its own way. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/manoranjan-mohanty-book-talk-china-s-transformation-success-story-and-success-trap \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/manoranjan-mohanty-chinas-transformation-the-success-story-and-the-success-trap/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T210000
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SUMMARY:William Overholt - Book Talk: "China’s Crisis of Success"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: William Overholt\, Senior Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center \nChina’s Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China’s rise to superpower status\, showing that China has reached a threshold where success has eliminated the conditions that enabled miraculous growth. Continued success requires re-invention of its economy and politics. The old economic strategy based on exports and infrastructure now piles up debt without producing sustainable economic growth\, and Chinese society now resists the disruptive change that enabled earlier reforms. While China’s leadership has produced a strategy for successful economic transition\, it is struggling to manage the politics of implementing that strategy. After analysing the economics of growth\, William H. Overholt explores critical social issues of the transition\, notably inequality\, corruption\, environmental degradation\, and globalisation. He argues that Xi Jinping is pursuing the riskiest political strategy of any important national leader. Alternative outcomes include continued impressive growth and political stability\, Japanese-style stagnation\, and a major political-economic crisis.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/william-overholt-book-talk-chinas-crisis-of-success/
LOCATION:Harvard Coop\, 1400 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T130000
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CREATED:20180403T173932Z
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SUMMARY:Maya Stiller - Maps\, Graffiti\, Kinship: The Use of GIS in the Spatial Analysis of a Sacred Mountain in Late Chosŏn Korea (1600-1900)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Maya Stiller Fellow\, Korea Institute; ACLS/The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies\, Department of History of Art and Architecture; Assistant Professor\, University of Kansas \nLight refreshments provided. \nRSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/maya-stiller-maps-graffiti-kinship-the-use-of-gis-in-the-spatial-analysis-of-a-sacred-mountain-in-late-choson-korea-1600-1900/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T140000
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SUMMARY:Diana Fu: Mobilizing Without the Masses
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Dr. Diana Fu\, University of Toronto \nDiana Fu is assistant professor of Asian politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention\, state power\, and civil society in contemporary China.  She is the author of  “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China\,” (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Series and Columbia University’s Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute).  Articles that are part of this broader project have appeared in Governance (2017)\, Comparative Political Studies (2017)\, The China Journal (2018)\, among others. \nShe graduated for Oxford University with distinction where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.  She was a Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and a Predoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Her writing and research have appeared in The Economist\, Foreign Affairs\, The Washington Post\, Boston Review\, Nick Kristof’s On the Ground Blog (The New York Times)\, PostGlobal\, and Global Brief. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-04-11/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T173000
DTSTAMP:20260428T034158
CREATED:20180410T133644Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Hunter - The Ten Thousand Rooms Project:  A Collaborative Workspace for Pre-Modern Textual Studies  
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Hunter\, Yale University \nDigital China Initiative Workshop Series \nRSVP at: https://goo.gl/4hJH7P \nQuestions: ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu\nDirections and Parking: https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/pages/visit
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-hunter-the-ten-thousand-rooms-project-a-collaborative-workspace-for-pre-modern-textual-studies/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T034158
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SUMMARY:Eugenio Menegon and Elisa Frei - Calamity from Within? Jesuits\, Papal Legates\, and Chinese Imperial Envoys in the Eighteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nEugenio Menegon\, Department of History\, Boston University & Collaborative Scholar\, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies\nElisa Frei\, Fellow\, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies\, Boston College \nInstitute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Colloquium\, Boston College \nMore information: https://www.bc.edu/centers/iajs/Programs/institute-colloquium-.html \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eugenio-menegon-and-elisa-frei-calamity-from-within-jesuits-papal-legates-and-chinese-imperial-envoys-in-the-eighteenth-century/
LOCATION:John J. Burns Library\, Boston College\, 140 Commonwealth Ave.\, Chestnut Hill\, MA\, 02467\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T183000
DTSTAMP:20260428T034158
CREATED:20180406T155426Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard University Asia Center 20th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse \n9:30 a.m.         Coffee \n9:45 a.m.         Welcome by Professor Karen Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n10:00 a.m.       Introduction by Vice Provost Mark Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Harvard University; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History \n10:15 a.m.        Remarks by Professor Rema Hanna\, Chair\, Asia Center Southeast Asia Committee; Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies\, Harvard Kennedy School \n10:30 a.m.       A Dialogue with the Asia Center’s former Directors and Acting Directors on the Changing and Enduring Issues in Asia\nEzra Vogel\, Asia Center Director 1997-1999; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nWilliam  Kirby\, Asia Center Director 1999-2002; Chair\, Harvard China Fund; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School\nDwight Perkins\, Asia Center Director 2002-2005; Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nAnthony Saich\, Asia Center Director 2005-2008; Director\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School\nArthur Kleinman\, Asia Center Director 2008-2016; Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School\nMichael Puett\, Asia Center Acting Director Spring Term 2013; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University\nAndrew Gordon\, Asia Center Acting Director 2016-2017; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University\nModerator:  Professor Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School \n12:00 p.m.        Lunch  S030\, Lee Gathering Room\, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse\, CGIS South \n1:00 p.m.          Remarks by Dean Claudine Gay\, Dean of Social Science\, Harvard University; Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies \n1:15 p.m.          Study and Research in Asia:  The Student Perspective\nErnest (Billy) Brewster\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nRenzo R. Guinto\, T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nHyeok Kweon Kang\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nNeelam Khoja\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\nVeronika Kusumaryati\, Department of Anthropology\nNeeti Nayak\, Urban Planning and Design\, Graduate School of Design\nMelany Sun-Min Park\, History and Theory of Architecture\nKyle Shernuk\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\nJustin Stern\, Architecture\, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning\nFeng-en Tu\, History and East Asian Languages \n3:00 p.m.         Break \n3:15 p.m.         Asia in the Next Two Decades: A Conversation with Current Harvard Asia-related Center Directors\nTarun Khanna\, Director\, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor\, Harvard Business School\nSun Joo Kim\, Director\, Korea Institute; Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History\, Harvard University\nWilliam Kirby\, Chair\, Harvard China Fund; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School\nSusan Pharr\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\nJay Rosengard\, Acting Director\, Asia Center Thai Studies Program; Asia Center Southeast Asia Committee; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School\nMichael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University\nKaren Thornber\, Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n4:40 p.m.         Audience to move to S010\, Tsai Auditorium (next door to S020) for Tsai Lecture \n4:45 p.m.         13th Annual Tsai Lecture: China’s Worldview Under Xi Jinping\nThe Honorable Kevin Rudd\, President\, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010\, 2013) and former Foreign Minister (2010-2012) \n5:45 p.m.         Concluding Remarks/Reception
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-university-asia-center-20th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180413T133000
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SUMMARY:Lin Wei-ping - Gender\, Gambling\, and the State in the Militarized Islands between China and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lin Wei-ping\, National Taiwan University; HYI Associate\nDiscussant: Michael Szonyi\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/gender-gambling-and-state-militarized-islands-between-china-and-taiwan
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lin-wei-ping-gender-gambling-and-the-state-in-the-militarized-islands-between-china-and-taiwan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest,Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:Kevin Rudd - China's Worldview Under Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: The Honorable Kevin Rudd\, President\, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010\, 2013) and former Foreign Minister (2010-2012) \nSponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund\, Harvard University Asia Center; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Greater China Club of the Harvard Business School   
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kevin-rudd-chinas-worldview-under-xi-jinping/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Mai Jia - The Art and Politics of the Espionage Novel in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mai Jia\, Chinese novelist and President of the Zhejiang Writers’ Association \nThis lecture will be given in Chinese. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mai-jia-the-art-and-politics-of-the-espionage-novel-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180416T180000
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SUMMARY:Mareike Ohlberg and Kristin Shi-Kupfer - Ideas and Ideologies Competing for China’s Future
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nMareike Ohlberg\, Research Associate\, Mercator Institute for China Studies; former An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nKristin Shi-Kupfer\, Head of Research on Politics\, Society\, and the Media\, Mercator Institute for China Studies \nUnlike any other Chinese leader since the beginning of the reform era\, Xi Jinping has worked on crafting a unified national ideology with the aim to strengthen the ties between China’s citizens and the Communist Party of China (CCP). The Xi leadership tries to rally support around the “China Dream\,” the vision of China as a global player\, and it promotes the “China Path” as an alternative to market economies and liberal democracies. \nAlthough partially successful\, the propaganda offensive has so far not yielded the desired result: a broad-based societal consensus on China’s future course. A new publication by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) shows widely differing views within Chinese society on China’s developmental model and its global role. \nFor their report\, “Ideas and ideologies competing for China’s future\,” Kristin Shi-Kupfer\, Mareike Ohlberg\, Simon Lang and Bertram Lang analyzed debates in Chinese social media and conducted a survey among predominantly urban Chinese netizens. Even though party-state propaganda played a dominant role\, debates in online chat groups such as Weibo or Tianya Net displayed a wide range of opinions despite censorship and repression of dissent. \nDr. Kristin Shi-Kupfer\nKristin Shi-Kupfer heads research on politics\, society and the media at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. She is an expert on media policy\, civil society\, religious policy and ideology in China. She previously worked as a research associate at the University of Freiburg’s Institute for Sinology. She earned her PhD from Ruhr University Bochum with a thesis on spiritual and religious groups in China after 1978. From 2007 to 2011 she was the China correspondent for the Austrian news magazine Profil\, the German Protestant Press Agency epd\, and Südwest Presse in Beijing. She also worked as a freelance contributor for other media like ZEIT Online\, tageszeitung (taz)\, and Deutsche Welle in China. In May 2017\, Shi-Kupfer was appointed member of the expert committee of the German-Chinese platform on innovation under the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. \nDr. Mareike Ohlberg\nMareike Ohlberg is a research associate at the Mercator Institute for China Studies\, where she focuses on China’s subnational politics\, official media policy as well as developments in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Ohlberg holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Heidelberg and an MA from Columbia University. In her thesis\, she analyzed changes in China’s global propaganda outreach since 1978. Prior to joining MERICS\, Ohlberg spent a year as an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and another year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Cheng Shewo Institute for Chinese Journalism at Shih Hsin University in Taipei.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mareike-ohlberg-and-kristin-shi-kupfer-ideas-and-ideologies-competing-for-chinas-future/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180416T183000
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UID:5939-1523896200-1523903400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Paul Harrison - Mañjuśrī’s Residence on China’s Wutai Shan: The View from Distant India
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul Harrison\, George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies\, Stanford University \nThe Buddhist practice of replicating sacred sites in multiple locations is a well-known feature of the history of the religion\, as is the readiness of Buddhists to keep finding new places blessed by the presence of Buddhas\, bodhisattvas and other such beings. Thus in China\, for example\, Wutai Shan in the north was identified as the residence of the great bodhisattva Mañjuśrī\, while\, in other parts of the country\, we find the island of Putuo Shan in the east recognized as Potalaka\, the abode of Avalokiteśvara\, Jiuhua Shan\, also to the east\, seen as the dwelling place of Kṣitigarbha\, and Emei Shan in the south singled out as the home of Samantabhadra\, thus yielding the Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhist China. The way in which such identifications as these proliferated was foundational to patterns of pilgrimage across the premodern Buddhist world. This paper addresses one small aspect of this broad topic\, and investigates the lore surrounding the linkage of Mañjuśrī and Wutai Shan\, using as its point of departure an early Tantric text for which until recently we had no Sanskrit version. This short work\, the Viśeṣavatī-dhāraṇī\, opens up some new perspectives on the cult of Mañjuśrī and its transnational manifestations. It also raises the question whether the flow of influence was always from the imagined center to the periphery\, that is\, whether we have any solid evidence that in India it was accepted or even known that Mañjuśrī had become a permanent resident of China. \nPaul Harrison is the George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies. Educated in his native New Zealand and in Australia\, he specializes in Buddhist literature and history\, especially that of the Mahāyāna\, and in the study of Buddhist manuscripts in Sanskrit\, Chinese and Tibetan. He is the author of The Samādhi of Direct Encounter with the Buddhas of the Present\, and of numerous journal articles on Buddhist sacred texts and their interpretation. He is also one of the editors of the series “Buddhist Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection.” \nPaul’s current projects include editions and translations of a number of Mahāyāna and Mainstream Buddhist sūtras and śāstras\, including the Vajracchedikā (Diamond Sutra) and the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa\, as well as a general study of issues of authority\, textual transmission and innovation in Mahayana Buddhism. \nPaul serves as Co-Director of the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/buddhist-studies-forum-2018-04-30/
LOCATION:Plimpton Room (133)\, Barker Center\, 12 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180417T134500
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UID:6711-1523967300-1523972700@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:His Excellency Cui Tiankai Speaks on U.S. - China Relations
DESCRIPTION:This Event begins at 12:15pm. \nSpeaker: Cui Tiankai\, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America. \nHis Excellency Cui Tiankai\, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America\, will present a public lecture on the current state of U.S.-China relations at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. \nThe lecture and discussion will be moderated by Michael Szonyi\, Director of the Fairbank Center and Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-conversation-with-ambassador-cui-tiankai/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School\, Austin North (Room 100)\, 1515 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180417T183000
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SUMMARY:Liu Zhenya - The Art of Energy Revolution: From Ultra High Voltage Power Grids to Global Energy Interconnection
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Zhenya\, Former Chairman and President of State Grid Corporation of China; Chairman of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) \nMr. Liu formerly served as the Chairman and President of State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC)\, the world’s largest utility company. He is currently the Chairman of GEIDCO\, a United Nations- and SGCC- affiliated organization that promotes grid interconnection worldwide to facilitate development of renewable energy. In this public lecture\, Mr. Liu will focus on low-carbon energy transition through innovative strategies that help to integrate energy systems across regions and the world. \nThe event will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese and English. Simultaneous Mandarin Chinese and English interpretation will be available. Please plan to arrive at least fifteen minutes early and bring a government- or university-issued photo ID if you would like to check-out a headset to listen to the interpretation. \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment; the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School; the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences; and the Harvard Global Institute. \nhttps://chinaproject.harvard.edu/liu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-zhenya-the-art-of-energy-revolution-from-ultra-high-voltage-power-grids-to-global-energy-interconnection/
LOCATION:Milstein East B/C\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Mass Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180418T140000
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UID:5904-1524054600-1524060000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Edward Cunningham - Elite Philanthropy in the US and China: What Does the Data Tell Us?
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Dr. Edward A. Cunningham\, Harvard Kennedy School \nEdward Cunningham is Director of Ash Center China Programs and of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer of Public Policy\, focusing on energy markets and governance\, international economics and competitiveness\, the political economy of development\, and China’s integration into the world. Most recently he has engaged in work on the rise of Chinese private wealth and philanthropy. He serves as an advisor to private and publicly listed companies in the energy\, environmental\, and financial services sectors. \nCunningham was selected as a Fulbright Fellow to the P.R.C.\, during which time he conducted his doctoral fieldwork as a visiting fellow at Tsinghua University. He is fluent in Mandarin and Italian\, and his work has appeared in media such as The New York Times\, The Financial Times\, The New Yorker\, The Economist\, The Wall Street Journal\, Fortune\, and Bloomberg. He graduated from Georgetown University\, received an A.M. from Harvard University\, and holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in political science. He is currently completing a book on China’s energy markets and energy governance during the modern reform period.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-04-18/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180418T183000
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CREATED:20180412T164003Z
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SUMMARY:Nathan Sivin - Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nathan Sivin\, University of Pennsylvania \nIn his talk\, ‘Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others\,’ Professor Sivin will explore motivations for East-West and other comparative studies\, as well as the methodological challenges that they involve. \nNathan Sivin\, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania\, is a generalist who has contributed studies of all the sciences and medicine in every period of Chinese history\, and comparative studies of these fields in China and Europe. He has taught a range of courses from the Scientific Revolution in Europe to advanced classical Chinese\, as well as the sociology of professionalization (with Renée Fox) and ritual in science\, technology\, and medicine. \nOrganizer: Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice\, Harvard University GSAS Workshop
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nathan-sivin-why-some-comparisons-make-more-difference-than-others/
LOCATION:Boylston Hall Room 203\, Boylston Hall\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180419T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180419T173000
DTSTAMP:20260428T034159
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180403T162518Z
UID:6914-1524153600-1524159000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Graham Allison - Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides' Trap?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Graham Allison\, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government\, Harvard Kennedy School\nDiscussants:\nRoderick MacFarquhar\,  Leroy B. Williams Professor of History\, Harvard University\nOriana Skylar Mastro\, Assistant Professor of Security Studies\, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service\, Georgetown University \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. \nListen again:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/graham-allison-destined-for-war-can-america-and-china-escape-thucydides-trap/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180420T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180420T160000
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UID:7068-1524232800-1524240000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Belt and Road Initiative and Authoritarian Spillovers
DESCRIPTION:One of the Fairbank Center’s Visiting Scholars\, Maria Adele Carrai\, will be giving a presentation on Friday\, April 20 from 2-4 in CGIS S153 on her paper “The Belt and Road Initiative and Authoritarian Spillovers: Chinese economic statecraft in Central and Eastern European Countries.” \nAll are welcome to attend. If you would like to read the paper before attending the talk\, please contact Nick Drake at ndrake@fas.harvard.edu.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-belt-and-road-initiative-and-authoritarian-spillovers/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180423T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180423T170000
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CREATED:20180413T152341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180413T152341Z
UID:7057-1524495600-1524502800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Symposium on Asia at the World's Fairs: An Online Exhibition of Cultural Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Director and Project Curator: Catherine V. Yeh\nWeb-designer: Janet Liu\nCo-curators: Janet Liu\, Robert Murowchick\, Alice Tseng\, and Wen-hao Tien \nPlease join us for the celebratory opening of our exciting new online digital initiative\, Asia at the World’s Fairs: An Online Exhibition of Cultural Exchange.The symposium features presentations on the cultural\, political\, and economic roles of international exhibitions through history\, and an exploration of the inclusion and impact of Asian cultures at these wildly popular and influential events. We will be presenting our evolving exhibition’s first two “themes” that will focus on Asian dance and architecture at the fairs\, and discuss how this online exhibition can serve as an engaging\, interactive vehicle for the study of many other themes in the future. \nFor more information\, visit https://www.bu.edu/asian/2018/01/02/exhibition-opening-asia-at-the-worlds-fairs/. \nOrganized by BU Center for the Study of Asia\, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-on-asia-at-the-worlds-fairs-an-online-exhibition-of-cultural-exchange/
LOCATION:Boston University Hillel House\, 213 State Road\, 213 Bay State Road\, Boston\, MA\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180424T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180102T143023Z
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SUMMARY:Victor Shih - Protective Umbrella: How Factional Ties Attenuated the Impact of an Anti-Corruption Campaign in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victor Shih\, University of California San Diego \nDo stricter enforcement of the law and sudden intensification of corruption investigation always lead to better economic outcomes in the medium term? A strand of the literature suggests that where the government imposes great distortion to the market\, corruption “with theft” can incentivize local state agents to reduce the level of distortion\, leading to greater degree of economic activities. Thus\, a wide- ranging anti-corruption drive may stifle some economic activities\, such as investment. We investigate this possibility by examining the impact of the 2012 anti-corruption drive in China on provincial level real estate investment\, an area rife with corruption with theft. After controlling for provincial\, month\, and year fixed effects and for expectation of Xi’s ascendancy prior to the beginning of the anti-corruption drive\, we find that anti-corruption slowed the growth of real estate investment in Chinese provinces without ties to Xi Jinping\, the leader of China. For provinces whose leadership had past ties with Xi\, however\, they continued to experience rising property investment. This paper further adds to the literature on factionalism by showing that high level patronage boosted the level of investment in the midst of an anti-corruption campaign. \nVictor Shih is an associate professor of political economy and has published widely on the politics of Chinese banking policies\, fiscal policies and exchange rates. He was the first analyst to identify the risk of massive local government debt\, and is the author of “Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation.” \nPrior to joining UC San Diego\, Shih was a professor of political science at Northwestern University and former principal for The Carlyle Group. \nShih is currently engaged in a study of how the coalition-formation strategies of founding leaders had a profound impact on the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party. He is also constructing a large database on biographical information of elites in China.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-series-victor-shih/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T133000
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CREATED:20180323T151028Z
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UID:6840-1524657600-1524663000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wang Jianping - Upholding the Faith in an Atheistic Land: Flourishing Unofficial Islamic Publications in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Jianping\, Professor of Islamic Studies (retired)\, Shanghai Normal University; HYI Library Research Grant recipient\nChair: James Cheng\, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library\, Harvard University \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/upholding-faith-atheistic-land-flourishing-unofficial-islamic-publications-contemporary-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-jianping-upholding-the-faith-in-an-atheistic-land-flourishing-unofficial-islamic-publications-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T140000
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SUMMARY:Wu Xinbo - Managing growing and expanding competition between China and the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Wu Xinbo\, Professor & Director Center for American Studies Dean Institute of International Studies Fudan University \nDr. Wu is Professor and Dean\, Institute of International Studies\, and Director at the Center for American Studies\, Fudan University.  He teaches and researches China’s foreign and security policy\, Sino-U.S. relations\, and U.S. Asia-Pacific policy.  Prof. Wu is the author of Dollar Diplomacy and Major Powers in China\, 1909-1913 (Fudan University Press\, 1997)\, award-winning Turbulent Water: US Asia-Pacific Security Strategy in the post-Cold War Era (Fudan University Press\, 2006)\, Managing Crisis and Sustaining Peace between China and the United States (United States Institute of Peace\, 2008)\, and The New Landscape in Sino-U.S. Relations in the early 21st Century (Fudan University Press\, 2011).  He also has published numerous articles and book chapters in China\, U.S.\, Japan\, Germany\, South Korea\, Singapore and India.  Dr. Wu is on the editorial board of The Washington Quarterly (published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies) and on the International Board of the Studies in Asian Security book series (sponsored by the East-West Center and published by the Stanford University Press).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-04-25/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T160000
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SUMMARY:Liu Shuguang - Cultural Heritage in China: Present and Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Shuguang\, Deputy Administrator\, State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH)\, People’s Republic of China \nThis talk will focus on the distinctive features of cultural heritage in China\, the formation of Cultural Heritage Management Mechanism  with Chinese Characteristics and the existing state and challenges to Cultural Heritage Management in China. \nLiu Shuguang\, graduated from the history department at Zhengzhou University with a bachelor degree in archeology in 1982. In 1986\, he received a master’s degree in Chinese history at Peking University. After serving as an archaeologist in Luoyang\, from 1986 to 1996\, he taught ancient Chinese history\, history of Chinese archaeology\, Chinese urban history\, etc.\, at Minzu University of China and the Branch College of Peking University. \nFrom 1996 to 2010\, he worked at State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH). From March\, 2010\, he was president of Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage\, and president of National Center of Underwater Cultural Heritage. Since December\, 2015\, he has been deputy administrator of SACH.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-shuguang-management-of-cultural-heritage-in-china-existing-state-and-future-trend/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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