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Richard Weitz: Russia, China, and the United States as Great-Power Competitors: Implications for Nuclear Security and Conflict
Richard Weitz: Russia, China, and the United States as Great-Power Competitors: Implications for Nuclear Security and Conflict
Speaker: Richard Weitz, Senior Research Fellow, Hudson Institute
Rudolf Wagner – The Public Performance of Justice: The Transcultural Career of a Political Installation Across Eurasia
Rudolf Wagner – The Public Performance of Justice: The Transcultural Career of a Political Installation Across Eurasia
Speaker: Rudolf Wagner, Universitat Heidelberg; Fairbank Center Associate
Matthew Wells – The Vision to Restore the Empire: Manufacturing Monarchy and Empire in the Early 4th Century
Matthew Wells – The Vision to Restore the Empire: Manufacturing Monarchy and Empire in the Early 4th Century
Speaker: Matthew Wells, University of Kentucky This presentation will discuss part of an ongoing project that attempts to explain how the early leaders of the Eastern Jin understood and executed what Dennis Grafflin has called the “interesting task of reality construction” that was required for establishing their new empire in Yangzhou 揚州 in the early 4th century. […]
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Yeling Tan – Disaggregating “China, Inc” – Explaining the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism
Yeling Tan – Disaggregating “China, Inc” – Explaining the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism
Speaker: Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon When China joined the WTO in 2001, conventional wisdom held that global trade rules would provide a credible commitment to liberalization. While significant reforms did take place, scholars soon pointed to the emergence of a Chinese “state capitalism”. Why did the expansion of market-oriented institutions […]
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Huang Xiangchun – The Art of Keeping Appropriate Distance: Practicing “Ethnicity” of the “Dan” (蜑) on the Margins Through Time
Huang Xiangchun – The Art of Keeping Appropriate Distance: Practicing “Ethnicity” of the “Dan” (蜑) on the Margins Through Time
Speaker: Huang Xiangchun, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2018-19| Chair/discussant: Robert Weller, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University What does “ethnicity” mean in late imperial and modern China? How is it practiced in local society and to what extent does it shape local society and culture? This talk reflects on and […]
Melanie Manion – Xi Jinping’s Anticorruption Campaign
Melanie Manion – Xi Jinping’s Anticorruption Campaign
Read event summary here Speaker: Melanie Manion, Duke University Melanie Manion is Vor Broker Family Professor of Political Science at Duke University. She studied philosophy and political economy at Peking University in the late 1970s, was trained in Far Eastern studies at McGill University and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University […]
Symposium – Tale of Three Cities: Urban Regeneration Through Design and Cultural Innovation
Symposium – Tale of Three Cities: Urban Regeneration Through Design and Cultural Innovation
Speakers: Yuan Qian, Director, Vanke Urban Research Institute Lemin Zhang, Xiamen University. Ruoxi Zhang, Xiamen University. Neill Mclean Gaddes, Principal, Sans Practice James Shen, Principal, People’s Architecture Office, Harvard Loeb Fellow 2018, Research Fellow - Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies In four decades China’s urban population has exploded, tripling to 58% of its total […]
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Adam Segal – The Future of US-China Technology Competition
Adam Segal – The Future of US-China Technology Competition
Speaker: Adam Segal, Council on Foreign Relations Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert on security issues, technology development, and Chinese domestic and foreign policy, Segal was the project director […]
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Li Yinghua – Let Silent Stones Speak: A technological analysis of lithics and examination of cultural homogeneity and diversity in South China and Southeast Asia from 30,000 to 6,000 years ago
Li Yinghua – Let Silent Stones Speak: A technological analysis of lithics and examination of cultural homogeneity and diversity in South China and Southeast Asia from 30,000 to 6,000 years ago
Speaker: Li Yinghua Professor, School of History, Wuhan University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/let-silent-stones-speak-technological-analysis-lithics-and-examination-cultural-homogeneity
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Julie Zhu – Life under Mao: the Cultural Revolution and the “Barefoot Doctors”
Julie Zhu – Life under Mao: the Cultural Revolution and the “Barefoot Doctors”
Speaker: Julie Zhu Up through the early 1970s, the "Barefoot Doctor" initiative in China brought primary care to rural China through a cadre of village health workers affectionately referred to as the "Barefoot Doctors." Julie Zhu was one of them. She was sent to the countryside after high school and worked under the most famous […]
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Jessica Teets – Managing Local Cadres
Jessica Teets – Managing Local Cadres
Read event summary here Speaker: Jessica Teets, Middlebury College Jessica C. Teets is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Middlebury College, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Chinese Political Science. Her research focuses on governance and policy diffusion in authoritarian regimes, specifically the role of civil society. She is the author […]
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Workshop – Sinophone Humanities in Southeast Asia
Workshop – Sinophone Humanities in Southeast Asia
SCHEDULE 10.15am – 10.30am: Welcome Remarks by David Wang 10.30am – 12pm: Panel A: The Geopolitics of Southeast Asian Space, Memory and History Chair: Huang Ying-che (Aichi University) Ko Chia-cian (National Taiwan University): 漢詩世界裡的華夷風 Tee Kim Tong (National Sun Yat-sen University): 馬華文學、吉隆坡與文學／記憶現場 Liew Zhou Hau (Harvard University): Staging Resettlement: The Re-engineering of Rural History and […]
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May Fourth @ 100: China and the World
An international symposium to celebrate and reflect upon the monumental legacy of China’s May Fourth movement. Listen to the keynote speeches by Rudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg) and Chen Pingyuan on Soundcloud: Download the transcript of Rudolf Wagner's keynote speech here: Reconstructing May Fourth Keynote Speech by Rudolf Wagner Speakers: Chan, Leonard K.K. Chan, […]
EU-China Trade and Investment Relations: A Vehicle for Cooperation or a Path to Competition?
EU-China Trade and Investment Relations: A Vehicle for Cooperation or a Path to Competition?
Speakers: Jonathan Brookfield, Tufts University Yasheng Huang, MIT Philippe LeCorre, Harvard Kenned School The trade and investment ties between the European Union (EU) and China run very deep. The EU is China's biggest trading partner, and China is the EU's second biggest. Yet, European concerns over a lack of transparency, protection of intellectual property rights, and […]
Lim Jaehwan – The Rise and Decline of Collective Leadership in China: An Institutional Approach
Lim Jaehwan – The Rise and Decline of Collective Leadership in China: An Institutional Approach
Speaker: Lim Jaehwan, Associate Professor, Department of International Politics, Aoyama Gakuin University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University President Xi Jinping’s quick and impressive power consolidation has sparked much debate over the current state and future trajectory of the collective leadership in the Chinese Communist […]
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Douglas Paal – The Taiwan Relations Act at Forty
Douglas Paal – The Taiwan Relations Act at Forty
Speaker: Douglas Paal, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Director, American Institute in Taiwan
Dagmar Schafer – Lists, Local Gazeteers, and the True Lies of Premodern China’s Patterns of Social Mobility
Dagmar Schafer – Lists, Local Gazeteers, and the True Lies of Premodern China’s Patterns of Social Mobility
Speaker: Dagmar Schäfer, Director of Department III, "Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge," Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Chair: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Since the 1950s, historians of China have researched and praised the possibilities of upward mobility in China’s late imperial meritocratic society. Through the […]
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Panel Discussion – China and the Middle East in the 21st Century
Panel Discussion – China and the Middle East in the 21st Century
Speakers: Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University Robert S. Ross, Boston College Bruce Rutherford, Colgate University Degang Sun, Shanghai International Studies University Chair: Lenore S. Martin, Emmanuel College and Harvard University
Paul Cohen – A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China
Paul Cohen – A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China
Listen again on Soundcloud: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speaker: Paul Cohen, Fairbank Center Associate In his memoir Paul Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us […]
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Karl Eikenberry – The Military Dimension of Sino-American Strategic Competition
Karl Eikenberry – The Military Dimension of Sino-American Strategic Competition
Read event summary here Speaker: Karl Eikenberry, Stanford University Karl Eikenberry is Director of the U.S.-Asia Security Initiative and faculty member at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, faculty member of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and Professor of Practice at Stanford University. He is also an affiliate with the FSI Center for Democracy, […]
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Lu Pin – Finding a Voice: A Conversation on China’s Feminist Voices
Lu Pin – Finding a Voice: A Conversation on China’s Feminist Voices
Speaker: Lu Pin, Chinese journalist and feminist activist Chair: Julian Gewirtz, Lecturer, Department of History; Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University Discussant: Moira Weigel, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows Asia Center Seminar Series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Li Jie – Maoist Cinema as a Spirit Medium
Li Jie – Maoist Cinema as a Spirit Medium
Speaker: Li Jie, EALC, Harvard University As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined for demolition. Her second monograph, Utopian Ruins: A […]
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Wei Shang – “The Story of the Stone” and the Visual Culture of the Manchu Court
Wei Shang – “The Story of the Stone” and the Visual Culture of the Manchu Court
Speaker: Wei Shang, Columbia University This talk addresses The Story of the Stone (otherwise known as Dream of the Red Chamber, Honglou meng 紅樓夢), authored by Cao Xueqin (ca. 1715--ca. 1763), with special focus on its recurrent theme as captured in Chapter 1: “Truth becomes fiction when fiction is true; real becomes not-real where the […]
Terry Sicular – Rural Secondary Education During the Cultural Revolution: The Untold Story
Terry Sicular – Rural Secondary Education During the Cultural Revolution: The Untold Story
Speaker: Terry Sicular, Professor of Economics, The University of Western Ontario Terry Sicular is a leading North American specialist on the Chinese economy. She has written extensively on household incomes, inequality, poverty, and the rural economy in China. She is a co-editor of and contributor to several books including Rising Inequality in China: Challenges to […]
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Paul Clifford – Huawei Technologies: World-Class Company or State Agent?
Paul Clifford – Huawei Technologies: World-Class Company or State Agent?
Speaker: Paul Clifford, Ash Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs China has come a long way from relying on imports to support its telecommunications sector. Today, telecommunications companies in China not only fulfill that nation’s growing needs but have a global reach. In this context, how […]
Felix Boecking | Chinese trade wars in historical perspective— No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927-1945
Felix Boecking | Chinese trade wars in historical perspective— No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927-1945
Listen to an interview with Felix Boecking on our "Harvard on China" podcast. Download and read the podcast transcript here Download and read the podcast transcript here. Speaker: Felix Boecking, University of Edinburgh No Great Wall (Harvard Asia Center, 2017), an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure […]
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Philippe Le Corre – China and Europe: Potential Partners or Systemic Rivals?
Philippe Le Corre – China and Europe: Potential Partners or Systemic Rivals?
Read event summary here Speaker: Philippe Le Corre, Harvard Kennedy School Philippe Le Corre is an affiliate with the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship and a senior fellow with Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center on Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a former fellow with the Belfer Center. Philippe […]
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Sebastian Veg – Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
Sebastian Veg – Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
Speaker: Sebastian Veg, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris While China’s intellectuals throughout the twentieth century were defined in terms of their elite position and responsibility for the nation, this role was profoundly challenged after the crackdown on the democracy movement of 1989. In its aftermath, new groups of intellectuals emerged from […]
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2019 Gender Studies Workshop: Images, Objects, and Gender in China
2019 Gender Studies Workshop: Images, Objects, and Gender in China
12:45-1 p.m. Welcoming remarks First Panel Moderator: Catherine Vance Yeh 1-1:30p.m. Jeehee Hong, “ ‘Gender’ and Affect in Song Faces” 1:30-2p.m. Mao Wen-Fang, “The Object and the Beauty in Painting: the Metaphorical Viewing and Lyrical Interpretations of Portrait Texts in the Modes of ‘San hao三好’ (three good things) and ‘Lang yu li郎與麗’ (gentleman […]
Yan Xuetong and Graham Allison: US-China Competition in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
Yan Xuetong and Graham Allison: US-China Competition in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
Speaker: Yan Xuetong, Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University Moderator: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and former Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
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Katie Hill – A History Written by Our Bodies: Artistic Activism and the Agonistic Chinese Voice of Mad For Real’s Performances at the end of the Twentieth Century
Katie Hill – A History Written by Our Bodies: Artistic Activism and the Agonistic Chinese Voice of Mad For Real’s Performances at the end of the Twentieth Century
Dr. Katie Hill's talk will discuss the work of Mad For Real, a performance duo (Cai Yuan and Jianjun Xi) who work between Britain and China and became known for pioneering interventional performance in the public space using the city of London as a cultural canvas. Her talk explores the duo's artistic activism at the […]
The EU and China as Global Actors: The Cases of Syria and Africa
The EU and China as Global Actors: The Cases of Syria and Africa
Speakers: Catherine Gegout, Harvard Kennedy School Fidel Sendagort, Former Ambassador of Spain to Egypt The panelists will discuss the differing approaches towards conflict management, and the different ways through which China and the European Union (EU) engage with the world. Specifically, they will discuss the Chinese and European policy towards the Syrian conflict and their methods […]
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Michael Kingston – Arctic Shipping and the Northern Sea Route, Shipping Trends, and The New Polar Code Regulations: The Concerns and Contributions of The International Insurance Industry
Michael Kingston – Arctic Shipping and the Northern Sea Route, Shipping Trends, and The New Polar Code Regulations: The Concerns and Contributions of The International Insurance Industry
Speaker: Michael Kingston, Managing Director, Michael Kingston Associates; Special Advisor, Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Group, Arctic Council Moderator: George Soroka, Lecturer, Harvard University; Center Associate, Davis Center More info: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/arctic-shipping-and-northern-sea-route-shipping-trends-and-new-polar-code-regulations
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Wen Luo – The Application of GIS in the Historical Settlement Geography
Wen Luo – The Application of GIS in the Historical Settlement Geography
Speaker: Wen Luo, Deputy Director, Research Department on Cultural and Natural Resources, Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute; Visiting Scholar, IQSS(CBDB Project), Harvard University Light refreshments provided RSVP to HYL.EADH@GMAIL.COM
Margaret K. Lewis – Why Law Matters in Taiwan
Margaret K. Lewis – Why Law Matters in Taiwan
Listen to an interview with Margaret Lewis on our "Harvard on China" podcast. Download and read the transcript of this podcast interview here. Speaker: Margaret K. Lewis, Seton Hall University School of Law Professor Margaret Lewis’s research focuses on law in mainland China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice. Professor Lewis has been […]
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Mandopop: 40 Years of Chinese Popular Music and Culture
Mandopop: 40 Years of Chinese Popular Music and Culture
Watch again: Listen again: Speakers: GAO Xiaosong 高曉松 FANG Wenshan (Vincent Fang) 方文山 LUO Dayou (Lo Ta-yu) 羅大佑 Yin Yue 尹約 This is a ticketed event. Only ticket holders will be allowed in the auditorium. All available tickets have been distributed. This talk will be conducted in a mixture of English and Mandarin.
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Maria Adele Carrai – Sovereignty in China and the Long Legacies of History
Maria Adele Carrai – Sovereignty in China and the Long Legacies of History
Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai, Fellow, Harvard Asia Center; Senior Researcher, KU Leuwen, Belgium Chair: William Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School Discussant: Anne Orford, Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, Harvard Law School Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series
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