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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join this year’s Visiting Scholars as they provide a brief overview of their research and other accomplishments during the past academic year at the Fairbank Center.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-presentations/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: An Elephant Sitting Still
DESCRIPTION:The final event of the spring semester for the Emergent Visions film series will be hosted at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square. The event is free and open to the public. \nSYNOPSIS: \nAn Elephant Sitting Still (大象席地而坐)\, 2018\, HD\, Mandarin with English subtitles\, 230 min. \nUnder the gloomy sky of a small town in northern China\, different protagonists’ lives are intertwined in this lugubrious tale of nihilistic rage. To protect his friend\, 16-year-old Wei Bu pushes the school bully down a staircase and escapes the scene after the bully becomes hospitalized with his life hanging by a thread. Wei’s neighbor\, the 60-year-old Wang Jin\, is estranged from his family and decides to join him. Huang Ling\, Wei’s classmate\, is bedeviled by an affair with a school official. Together\, the desperate three decide to flee as the wounded bully’s hooligan brother\, the school authorities\, and the parents all go on a cold-blooded hunt for Wei across town. As Wei treads through the wilderness\, he finally confronts his own reality. He later boards a long-distance bus with Huang and Wang toward Manchuria\, where a circus elephant is said to be sitting still. \nDIRECTOR’S STATEMENT \n“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heartbeat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.” This quote from Cormac McCarthy is also the subject of this film. In our age\, it’s increasingly hard for us to have faith even in the tiniest of things\, and the frustration from which becomes the hallmark of today’s society. The film builds up personal myths in between daily routines. In the end\, everyone loses what he or she values the most. \nOfficial Selection of the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival\, and the New Directors/New Films 2018 presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA. \nDIRECTOR’S BIO: \nHU Bo (Writer and Director)\, born in 1988 in China\, graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2014 with a B.F.A. in directing. His short film Distant Father (2014) won Best Director at Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival\, and Night Runner (2014) was selected by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy. His debut feature An Elephant Sitting Still\, which was then still in progress\, was selected by the FIRST \nInternational Film Festival Financing Forum in 2016. In the following year\, Hu Bo participated in FIRST Training Camp under the supervision of Béla Tarr\, where he completed the short film Man in the Well. He has also written two novels Huge Crack and Bullfrog\, both published in 2017. Hu Bo took his own life soon after finishing An Elephant Sitting Still. \nThis event is sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. Emergent Visions is a screening and discussion series that showcases new and innovative works of digital cinema from China. \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-an-elephant-sitting-still/
LOCATION:Brattle Theater\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:David Shambaugh - Power Shift? America and China in Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: David Shambaugh\, George Washington University \nProfessor Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia\, with a strong interest in the European Union and transatlantic issues. \nBefore joining the faculty at George Washington\, he held the positions of Reader in Chinese Politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) and Editor of The China Quarterly. He also previously served as an analyst on the staff of the National Security Council East Asia Bureau and the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence & Research (1976-78). He was also a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution (1998-2015)\, previously directed the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1986-87)\, served on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (2009-2015)\, and has been elected a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies\, Council on Foreign Relations\, U.S. Asia-Pacific Council\, and other public policy and scholarly organizations. He is a recipient of research grants from the Ford Foundation\, Rockefeller Foundation\, Smith Richardson Foundation\, German Marshall Fund\, British Academy\, U.S. National Academy of Sciences\, and other philanthropic bodies. He has been appointed a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2002-03)\, an Honorary Research Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2008–)\, a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of World Economics & Politics in Beijing (2009-10)\, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the S. Ranjaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore (2017). Professor Shambaugh has also been a visiting scholar or professor at universities in Australia\, China\, Hong Kong\, Italy\, India\, Japan\, Russia\, and Taiwan. He is also a frequent contributor to the international media\, serves on a number of editorial boards\, and has been a consultant to various governments\, research institutions\, foundations\, and private corporations. \nProfessor Shambaugh is a prolific author\, having published more than 30 books and 300 articles. \nCo-Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-3-2018-05-02/
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:Gender Studies Workshop: Gender and Friendship in China
DESCRIPTION:12:45-1 p.m.   Welcoming remarks \nFirst Panel \nModerator:     Wai-yee Li\, Harvard University \n1-1:30p.m.      Zhou Yiqun\, Stanford University: “Hermits and Their Wives in Early Chinese Texts” \n1:30-2p.m.      Hu Ying\, University of California Irvine: “Strange Friends: Reconceptualizing Gender and Community” \n2-2:30p.m.      Ellen Widmer\, Wellesley College: “Intercultural Mutuality: Mary Hannah Fulton (1854-1927) and Zhang Jujun (1879-1964)” \n2:30-3p.m.      Discussion \n3-3:30p.m.      Break \nSecond Panel \nModerator:     Xu Man\, Tufts University \n3:30-4p.m.      Haiyan Lee\, Stanford University: “‘Now We Have a Baby’: A Very Short Genealogy of the Pure Relationship in Chinese Literature” \n4-4:30p.m.      Catherine Vance Yeh\, Boston University: “Friendship in the Staging of a Star: Mei Lanfang” \n4:30-5p.m.      Eileen Chow\, Duke University: “‘有沒有愛？’：Tongren Culture\, Fandom and ‘Benefits with Friendship’” \n5-5:30p.m.      Discussion
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gender-studies-workshop-gender-and-friendship-in-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:Amelia Ying Qin - Seeking Patterns: Close and Distant Readings of Two Collections of Tang 唐 (618-907) Dynasty Anecdotes
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amelia Ying Qin\,  An Wang Post Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nThis study takes two different approaches—close and distant readings—to the hidden patterns in two anecdote collections. The Songchuang zalu 松牕雜錄 (Miscellaneous Notes under the Pine Window) is a small Tang 唐 (618-907) collection of sixteen anecdotes that claims its accounts are both “particularly unusual” 特異 and “definitely true” 必實. Close reading reveals it to be a text containing hidden structures with an emphasis on “the unusual” as a concept bearing discursive weight for the purpose of subtle political criticism. The intertwined ideas of unusualness and truthfulness define each other and form a discourse of “the unusual” that provides an interpretive framework for the collection’s core anecdotes. These accounts\, when read closely within this framework\, point to signs that foreshadow the Tang’s decline while voicing concerns over its end and directing muted criticism at the irresponsible Tang rulers. The Tang yulin 唐語林 (Forest of Conversations on the Tang)\, on the other hand\, is a collection of over eleven hundred anecdotes about Tang historical figures\, events\, and customs compiled during the Northern Song 北宋 (960-1127). Its contents were selectively recycled from fifty or so earlier miscellanies of various sizes\, and both the content and structure of the collection suffered from a hectic textual history of loss and restoration. To examine a text of this nature and size\, this study experiments with the approach of distant reading to explore potential patterns in its content\, structure\, and selective use of source material. In juxtaposing these two texts examined with different methods\, the speaker hopes to reflect upon the mercurial and ephemeral nature of anecdotal memories of the past\, as well as the possible ways of reading and understanding such memories. \nAmelia Ying Qin graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, with a Ph.D. in Chinese literature (2013) from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature and an M.A. (2010) from the School of Library and Information Studies. Prior to her study in Madison\, she also completed degrees at the University of Rhode Island and Fudan University in Shanghai\, China. Her current research interest is in the relationship and dynamics between cultural memory and historiography in Chinese anecdotal and historical narratives during the time period of 600-1300. She is also the translator of two chapters of The Grand Scribe’s Records. Her teaching interests include Chinese language of all levels\, survey of Chinese literature\, special topics in modern and classical Chinese literature\, as well as comparative topics in East Asian literature and cultures.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-2018-05-07/
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:20180522T180000
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SUMMARY:The Arnold Arboretum and China: A Century-Old Partnership
DESCRIPTION:Surrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection\, enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu’s (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. Each of his images will be paired with a sister image taken in the same location by Arboretum explorer Ernest Henry Wilson. \nThen screen highlights from CCTV-9’s documentary “Chinese Wilson.” Professor Yin and Dr. Michael Dosmann\, Arboretum Keeper of the Living Collections\, will introduce the film in which they both star\, linking China and the Arboretum’s past with modern-day quests to preserve these locations and biodiversity. \nFor more information and to RSVP by Tuesday\, May 8\, email Janetta Stringfellow\, Director of Institutional Advancement\, at janetta_stringfellow@harvard.edu or call 617-384-5043. \nEarlier in the day\, we will be hosting a program of talks by our Chinese guests and Arnold Arboretum staff. They will include presentations on E.H. Wilson’s life\, photographs\, and the plants he brought to Boston. We welcome you to also join us for this program.  Please contact Janetta Stringfellow for details. \nPhoto: View of North Gate and part of Taning Hsien with river and city wall. Altitude 600 ft. June 27\,1910. Photograph by Ernest Henry Wilson.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-arnold-arboretum-and-china-a-century-old-partnership/
LOCATION:Weld Hill Research Building\, 1300 Centre St.\, Boston\, MA\, 02131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:From Eco-Threat to Green Leader: Narratives of China’s Environment
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth Lord\, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nThis talk aims to unpack dominant narratives about China’s environment\, including the discourse of crisis\, the idea that growth brings environmental protection and the potential that China can act as an environmental ‘vanguard’ at the international level. By analyzing how each of these narratives spatialize China’s environmental issues\, the objective is to unpack their assumptions and their geopolitical implications. These narratives show that environmental questions increasingly serve as a platform to ‘re-orientalize’ China\, or construct China as an environmental ‘other.’ \nElizabeth Lord is an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center. Her research seeks to understand China’s contemporary environment\, examine the relationship between environmental change and inequalities\, and theorize the production of environmental knowledge\, particularly in China. During her time at the Center\, Elizabeth will research the environmental narratives of China. She will evaluate the assumptions and implications of environmental narratives\, including those produced in China and outside of China. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-eco-threat-to-green-leader-narratives-of-chinas-environment/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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