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SUMMARY:Eric Taglicozzo and Tansen Sen - Borders in Modern Asia: Concepts and Cases
DESCRIPTION:Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series \nEric Tagliacozzo\, Professor of History\, Cornell University \nTansen Sen\, Professor of History\, NYU Shanghai  \nChaired by Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eric-taglicozzo-and-tansen-sen-borders-in-modern-asia-concepts-and-cases/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190205T160000
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SUMMARY:Xiaofei Tian - The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xiaofei Tian\,  Professor of Chinese Literature; Chair of Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA)\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xiaofei-tian-the-halberd-at-red-cliff-jianan-and-the-three-kingdoms/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Robert Ross - The Rise of the Chinese Navy:  What it Means for East Asia and the United States
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Robert Ross\, Boston College \nRobert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate\, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1984. He has taught at Columbia University and at the University of Washington and in 1989 was a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington\, D.C. In 1994-1995 he was Fulbright Professor at the Chinese Foreign Affairs College\, in 2003 he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of International Strategic Studies\, Qinghua University\, Beijing\, and in 2014 was Visiting Scholar\, School of International Relations\, Peking University. In 2009 he was Visiting Scholar\, Institute for Strategy\, Royal Danish Defence College. From 2009-2014 he has been Adjunct Professor\, Institute for Defence Studies\, Norwegian Defence University College.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31-2019-02-06/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190207T133000
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SUMMARY:Huang Chang-Ling - Fighting for Seats: The Politics of Gender Quotas in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Huang Chang-Ling\, Professor of Political Science\, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar and Radcliffe Fellow\, 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Mona Lena Krook\,  Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Rutgers University \nThe level of women’s political representation varies in East Asia. Taiwan is the leader with 38 percent of its national legislature comprised of women\, much higher than China’s 23 percent\, South Korea’s 17 percent and Japan’s 10 percent. Taiwan also has the earliest and clearest legal stipulations of gender quotas in politics while Japan has none\, South Korea has had them since the mid-2000s\, and China has quota policies but no laws. Gender quotas as an institution challenges the liberal idea that emphasizes geographical representation and downplays the importance of social representation. This project explores the variations of quota adoption experience within East Asia from a regional history perspective\, especially within the context of the three wars against socialism–the Chinese Civil War\, the Korean War\, and the Cold War–hence to explore the discourses regarding social representation in this region over the past decades. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/fighting-seats-politics-gender-quotas-east-asia
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/huang-chang-ling-fighting-for-seats-the-politics-of-gender-quotas-in-east-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190210T075959
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SUMMARY:22nd Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference - Voice and Silence: Memory in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:The 22nd annual Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Conference will take place at Harvard CGIS-South on Friday\, February 8 and Saturday\, February 9. Organized by a committee of RSEA students\, this year’s conference offers multiple panels on the theme of Voice and Silence: Memory in East Asia. On Friday\, February 8 at 5:30 pm Prof. Xiaofei Tian\, Faculty Chair of the RSEA program\, will give welcoming remarks prior to a keynote address by Prof. Ezra Vogel\, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus. On Saturday\, February 9 at 4:45pm there will be a keynote address by Prof. Stephen Owen\, James Byrant University Professor of Comparative Literature\, Emeritus\, and closing remarks by Prof. Alexander Zahlten\, RSEA Director of Graduate Studies. \nSee the 2019 HEAS Conference Schedule. The conference keynotes and panels are open to all students. Registration begins at 2 pm on Friday\, February 8 in CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge Street. \nHEAS is grateful for the support of the Harvard Graduate Student Council\, the RSEA Program\, and several Harvard centers co-sponsoring the Conference: \n\nAsia Center\nFairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nKorea Institute\nReischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\nWeatherhead Center for International Affairs
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/22nd-annual-harvard-east-asia-society-conference-voice-and-silence-memory-in-east-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops
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SUMMARY:Christopher Atwood: Environmental Geographies of the Mongol Empire
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christopher Atwood\, Professor\, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier & Ethnic History\, University of Pennsylvania \nThe European conquest of the Americas\, the consequent ecological exchange\, massive mortality\, and rise of plantation economies have been one of the prime topics of environmental history. Less widely understood have been the similar ecological impacts and imperatives of the thirteenth century Mongol empire. Environment has been an important area of focus in the study of Central Eurasian nomads\, but within a framework that takes the relative stability of the ecological infrastructure as a given. The Mongol empire\, however\, resulted in a both a vast expansion of pastoralism and hunting together with the kind of directed agricultural expansion that we usually associate with the early modern world. The result was an environment in Mongol China that looked vastly different from anything in China before or after – and yet which left permanent marks on the Chinese economy and agriculture. This paper will present research on the environmental geography of Mongol empire\, focusing on North China\, showing how distinctive the environment was\, and how Mongol imperial policy used environmental zonation and control of labor as a crucial tool of governance.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/christopher-atwood-environment-in-asia-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment
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SUMMARY:Contemporary China Film Screening - Art in Fog: A Conversation with Director Lydia Chen
DESCRIPTION:Discussant: Shelley Drake Hawkes\, Middlesex Community College\nModerator: Eugenio Menegon\, Boston University \nDirected by Lydia Chen\, Art in Smog offers an intimate encounter with four artists and a curator in China\, as they pursue their dreams over 25 years of rapid change. The pursuit of art takes them from quiet lives in the 1990s to the extremes of the 2000s to their different paths forward today. Their lives and their work provide a visually rich glimpse of humanity in a tumultuous society. \nLydia Chen has engaged in cultural exchanges between China and the United States since the 1980s. At first she worked for the Foreign Languages Press and studied Chinese painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Later she was communications director for the American Chamber of Commerce in China\, associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University\, and executive director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. She received her master’s degrees in journalism and Asian studies from the University of California at Berkeley and her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.\n\nShelley Drake Hawks interviewed Chinese painters for her 2017 book _The Art of Resistance. Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China_ and her accompanying film The Lotus and the Red Star. She currently teaches art history at Middlesex Community College. She has also taught at Mount Holyoke College\, Boston University\, UMASS-Boston\, and Rhode Island School of Design. She has a masters in Asia regional studies from Harvard and a doctorate in history from Brown. To learn more about her book or view her film\, visit https://arthistorypi.org/books/art-of-resistance
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/contemporary-china-film-screening-art-in-fog-a-conversation-with-director-lydia-chen/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Yi Na - Seeing and Being Seen: The Cultural Roles of Tibetan Thangka
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yi Na\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Ethnic Literature\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19\nChair/discussant: Gregory Nagy\, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n*Please note early (10 am) start time* \nThangka originally is a kind of scroll painting depicting Tibetan Buddhism images on textile. There are always contradictions that seem impossible to reconcile in contemporary Thangka art caused by differentiated cultural roles of Thangka. Thangka’s cultural meaning and role are disparate for different people: In the eyes of ordinary art admirers\, Thangka is a painting full of Tibetan characteristics. In the eyes of traditional Thangka artists\, Thangka’s drawing process is the practice procedure\, and finished product and placement environment forms a religious setting. Commonly\, people will concentrate on how to “see” Thangka\, as well as how to understand what Thangka “say.” However\, the leadoff meaning of Thangka includes the coexistence and symbiosis of seeing and being seen. Through the eyes of Buddhas\, we can observe how the viewed field is constructed by these two. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/seeing-and-being-seen-cultural-roles-tibetan-thangka
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yi-na-seeing-and-being-seen-the-cultural-roles-of-tibetan-thangka/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Nara Dillon - Feeding the Poor: Food Welfare in the PRC
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Nara Dillon\, Harvard University \nNara Dillon’s research interests include globalization and the politics of welfare\, charity\, and inequality in China.  In addition to contemporary Chinese social policy\, her research examines its origins in the Mao and the pre-revolutionary Republican periods.  Her publications include At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen\, Social Networks\, and Statebuilding in Republican Shanghai(Stanford\, 2008) and Radical Inequalities: China’s Revolutionary Welfare State in Comparative Perspective (Harvard\, 2015). She has also written articles on civil society\, refugee relief\, and contemporary welfare reform in China and India.  Dillon received her B.A. in history from Williams College and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California\, Berkeley. From 2003 to 2007 she taught Chinese politics and comparative politics as an Assistant Professor at Bard College. She has held lecturer appointments in Government\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, and Social Studies at Harvard since 2008.  Dillon offers courses on China’s economic reforms\, global cities in East Asia\, and anti-poverty programs in China and other developing countries. Dillon also teaches two junior tutorials for East Asian Studies and Government concentrators: one on the political economy of modern China\, and another comparing Chinese and Indian politics.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31-2019-02-13/
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:Zuoyue Wang - Transnational Science in Modern China:  From May Fourth to the Cold War and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zuoyue Wang\, California State Polytechnic University\, Pomona \nHow have transnational exchanges\, especially with the United States\, in science and technology shaped and reshaped modern China in the last century since the May Fourth Movement of 1919? This talk explores key players and events in this history from the Science Society of China during the Republican era\, the making of the atomic bomb during the Mao years\, the experiences of Chinese American scientists during the Cold War\, to the emergence of dissident scientists such as Fang Lizhi and the migration of Chinese students/scientists to the US during the reform era. Revisiting John Fairbank’s impact-response thesis\, it argues that we need to examine both how the world changed China and how China changed the world in science and technology. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Asia Center Science and Technology Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zuoyue-wang-modern-china-lecture-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190219T160000
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SUMMARY:Derek Scissors - Chinese Investment: State-Owned Enterprises Stop Globalizing\, for the Moment
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Derek Scissors – American Enterprise Institute \nDerek M. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)\, where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is concurrently chief economist of the China Beige Book. \nDr. Scissors is the author of the China Global Investment Tracker. In late 2008\, he authored a series of papers that chronicled the end of pro-market Chinese reform and predicted economic stagnation in China as a result. He has also written multiple papers on the best course for Indian economic development. \nListen again on Soundcloud:
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/derek-scissors-china-economy-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workshop: The Birth of the Chinese Population
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Malcolm Thompson\, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\nDiscussant: Gail Hershatter\, Professor of History\, UC–Santa Cruz \nAbstract: What kind of problem is “the population problem” in China? That it would be a problem\, or at least an issue\, seems clear\, but this tells us little about how\, or why\, it was specifically problematized there for the first time in the 1920s and 1930s. This talk—which is based on a book project of the same name—will seek to explain the sudden emergence of the population problem in China in this period not as a realization of something obvious\, but as part of a general transformation of governing as a social practice.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-the-birth-of-the-chinese-population/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Wen Chen - China’s Healthcare Reform: Does Restructuring Government Functions Matter?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wen Chen\, Professor of Health Economics\, Fudan University\n\n\n\nProfessor CHEN received his M.D. degree in social medicine and health management from Shanghai Medical University in 1998 and completed a research fellowship at the University of California\, Berkeley School of Public Health from August 2000 to May 2001. Currently\, he serves as Director of PuDong Preventive Medicine Institute\, Fudan’s Foreign Affairs Office\, Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan Affairs Office\, and and the Confucius Institute. He was the Dean of the School of Public Health at Fudan University from April 2013 to June 2017. Professor Chen is often invited as an investigator and advisor by national and municipal governments for various research programs on the Chinese healthcare system\, national and provincial health insurance\, pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical policy\, health financing\, etc. He has more than 120 publications in international and Chinese health economics and management journals. He was elected Excellent Talent in the New Century by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2008. \nA China Health Partnership Seminar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wen-chen-chinas-healthcare-reform-does-restructuring-government-functions-matter/
LOCATION:Harvard Chan School\, Building 1\, Room 1208\, 677 Huntington Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States
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SUMMARY:William Kirby - Who Will Lead? China and the World of Universities in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: William Kirby\, Harvard Business School \nWilliam C. Kirby is Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University.  He is a University Distinguished Service Professor.  Professor Kirby serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund\, the University’s academic venture fund for China\, and Faculty Chair of the Harvard Center Shanghai\, Harvard’s first University-wide center located outside the United States. \nA historian by training\, Professor Kirby examines contemporary China’s business\, economic\, and political development in an international context.  He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; business relations across Greater China (PRC\, Taiwan\, Hong Kong); and China’s relations with the United States and Europe.  He has authored or co-authored more than fifty HBS cases on business in China\, ranging from start-ups to SOEs; agribusiness and middle-class consumption; banking and microfinance; healthcare and education; corporate governance and corporate social responsibility; and the global strategies of Chinese firms.  His current projects include case studies of trend-setting Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China\, Europe\, and the United States. His most recent book is Can China Lead? (Harvard Business Review Press).
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2019-02-20/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a discussion with Yao Li\, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center\, author of Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests. Elizabeth Plantan\, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center\, will serve as a respondent. Anthony Saich\, Ash Center Director\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, HKS\, will moderate. \n\n\n\nGrowing protests in non-democratic countries are often seen as signals of regime decline. China\, however\, has remained stable amid surging protests. Playing by the Informal Rules highlights the importance of informal norms in structuring state-protester interactions\, mitigating conflict\, and explaining regime resilience. Drawing on a nationwide dataset of protest and multi-sited ethnographic research\, this book presents a bird’s-eye view of Chinese contentious politics and illustrates the uneven application of informal norms across regions\, social groups\, and time. Through examinations of protests and their distinct implications for regime stability\, Li offers a novel theoretical framework suitable for monitoring the trajectory of political contention in China and beyond. Overall\, this study sheds new light on political mobilization and authoritarian resilience and provides fresh perspectives on power\, rules\, legitimacy\, and resistance in modern societies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/playing-by-the-informal-rules-why-the-chinese-regime-remains-stable-despite-rising-protests/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:By Land and By Sea: China’s Belt and Road in Europe
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nKevin Gallagher\, Boston University\nPhilippe Le Corre\, Harvard University\nThomas Berger\, Boston University\nGrant Rhode\, Boston University and U.S. Naval War College\nMin Ye\, Boston University\nVesko Garcevic\, Boston University\nGeorgios Dimitrakopoulos\, former Member of European Parliament\nRobert Ross\, Boston College and Harvard University \nMore Information: https://www.bu.edu/asian/2019/01/23/by-land-and-by-sea-chinas-belt-and-road-in-europe-feb-21-2019/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/by-land-and-by-sea-chinas-belt-and-road-in-europe/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:Shirley Yu - The Belt and Road Initiative: A Discussion of China's Vision and Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shirley Yu\, Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center Fellow\nModerator: Anthony Saich\, Ash Center Director\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\n \nThe Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, the signature foreign policy by Xi Jinping has served as China’s grand strategy since 2013\, when the idea first arose\, and it will remain relevant until around 2050\, when China is predicted to reach “modernity.” If successfully carried out\, by the second half of the Century\, the ambition is that China would return to its ancient Middle Kingdom status as the center of all nations\, equivalent to a Pax-Sinica.  \nThe BRI is conceptualized as a two-pronged strategy. One is “to maximize engagement with China’s economic growth and power\,” and the other is to build a “community of common destiny for humanity.” One vision is clearly economic\, and the other\, political. The success of the BRI is contingent upon the cohesion and the achievement of both visions in its entirety. The first vision can be empirically achievable. The prevalence of authoritarianism and flawed democracies in the BRI region essentially provides China with the ideal political incubator to expand its model of authoritarian capitalism. The second BRI vision\, a world community built upon a moral order prescribed by Confucianism and communism\, is challenging and important to elucidate by the liberal West\, as this set of defining values will illuminate the fundamental systemic challenges to liberal market capitalism and liberal political order. This talk aims to demystify the two-pronged BRI strategy and its sustainability.   \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shirley-yu-the-belt-and-road-initiative-a-discussion-of-chinas-vision-and-strategy/
LOCATION:Land Lecture Hall\, 4th Floor\, Belfer Building\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Alex Wang - Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alex Wang\, UCLA \nAt the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy – economic development and maintenance of social stability – as the core basis of their rule. Western scholarship on modern Chinese law and politics has\, to a significant degree\, critiqued the ability of China’s current institutions to perform as claimed. \nBut apart from any actual results that Chinese governance may generate\, the entire project of governance reform can be structured in a way that influences public impressions of state legitimacy. The process of reform is not only about attaining performance goals\, but is itself a kind of performance. This act of “performing performance” also signals competence\, commitment to the people\, tradition\, nationalist strength\, and a host of other positive values to citizens and other audiences. \nThis talk explores the symbolic aspects of Chinese environmental reform and potential implications\, drawing on case studies in air pollution\, climate change\, and China’s Belt & Road Initiative. \nAlex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law\, and a leading expert on environmental law and the law and politics of China. His research focuses on the social effects of law\, and the interaction of law and institutions in China and the United States. His previous research has examined\, among other things\, the institutional design of environmental law and policy\, environmental bureaucracy\, public interest litigation\, information disclosure\, and environmental courts. His work has addressed air pollution\, climate change\, and other environmental issues. \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alex-wang-environment-in-asia-series/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Stanley Rosen - China's Pursuit of Soft Power in the Era of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Read the event summary here \nSpeaker: Stanley Rosen\, University of Southern California \nProfessor Stanley Rosen teaches political science\, specializing in Chinese politics and society. He was the Faculty Master of University Residential College at Bimkrant\, an honors college for USC’s best incoming students\, from 2011-2017. Rosen lived on campus for 29 years as a resident faculty member. He studied Chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong and has traveled to mainland China around 60 times in the last 37 years. His courses range from Chinese politics and Chinese film to political change in Asia\, East Asian societies\, comparative politics\, and politics and film in comparative perspective. The author or editor of eight books and many articles\, he has written on such topics as the Cultural Revolution\, the Chinese legal system\, public opinion\, youth\, gender\, human rights\, Sino-American relations\, and film and the media. He has been the editor (now co-editor) of Chinese Education and Society since 1983. His most recent books include Chinese Politics: State\, Society and the Market [2010] (co-edited with Peter Hays Gries) and Art\, Politics and Commerce in Chinese Cinema [2010] (co-edited with Ying Zhu). He is currently co-editing a book on China’s Soft Power. Ongoing projects include a study of the changing attitudes and behavior of Chinese youth\, and a study of Hollywood films in China and the prospects for Chinese films on the international market\, particularly in the United States. In addition to his academic activities at USC\, Professor Rosen has escorted thirteen delegations to China for the National Committee on US-China Relations (including American university presidents\, professional associations\, and Fulbright groups). He is an affiliated research scholar at Beijing Normal University’s Research Institute for Chinese Culture and International Communications and a member of the international advisory board of Shanghai University’s Center for Media Studies and the Humanities Studies Center of Zhongshan University (Taiwan). He has consulted for the World Bank\, the Ford Foundation\, the United States Information Agency\, the Los Angeles Public Defenders Office and a number of private corporations\, law firms and U.S. government agencies. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series-2-2018-10-31-2019-02-27/
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:Tu Chuanfei and Liu Feng - Resistance of the Weak: the Invention of Dragon Dance Performance in a Chinese Village in the Process of Urbanization
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Tu Chuanfei and Liu Feng\, Jiangxi University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tu-chuanfei-and-liu-feng-chinese-religions-seminar/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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