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SUMMARY:The Taiwan Constitutional Court: History and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nTzong-Li Hsu\, Dr. iur.\, Georg-August Universität Göttingen\, Germany; Chief Justice\, Taiwan Constitutional Court and President\, Judicial Yuan\nJau-yuan Hwang (SJD ‘95)\, Justice\, Taiwan Constitutional Court \nhttp://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-taiwan-constitutional-court-history-and-challenges/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T131500
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191003T145845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191003T145845Z
UID:8674-1572868800-1572873300@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Valerie Karplus - China's Climate Policy and Air Quality: From Subnational to Global Impacts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Valerie J. Karplus\, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management\, MIT Sloan School of Management \nChina’s future energy mix will have a decisive effect on the world’s ability to meet climate change mitigation goals. This talk will discuss China’s national approach to climate change\, and use a multi-scale modeling approach to analyze the effects of China’s climate pledge on the energy system\, greenhouse gas emissions\, air quality\, and human health. Projected air quality and health co-benefits in Japan\, Korea\, and the U.S. will also be presented. Taken together\, the findings provide a strong case for cooperation among China\, the U.S.\, and other Asian countries to support implementation of China’s climate goals.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/valerie-karplus-chinas-climate-policy-and-air-quality-from-subnational-to-global-impacts/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191025T151541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191025T151541Z
UID:8826-1572870600-1572876000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Maria Adele Carrai - Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept Since 1840
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai\, Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center; Marie-Curie senior researcher at the Center for Global Governance at KU Leuven\nDiscussant: Alastair Iain Johnston\, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/maria-adele-carrai-sovereignty-in-china-a-genealogy-of-a-concept-since-1840/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191016T131106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T131106Z
UID:8709-1572883200-1572890400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:April Hughes — Apocalyptic Saviors\, Terrestrial Utopias\, and Imperial Authority: The Reign of Empress Wu Zetian (690-705CE)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: April Hughes\, Boston University \nThis talk examines the association between Wu Zhao of Great Zhou (Empress Wu Zetian) and Maitreya Buddha in a commentary on the Scripture of the Great Cloud (Dayun jing 大雲經\, T. no. 387) presented to the throne in 690 just prior to her being declared emperor. The Commentary quotes from Attesting Illumination (Zhengmingjing證明經\, T. no. 2879)\, a non-canonical apocalyptic scripture in which Maitreya appears during the chaos of the apocalypse in order to fight demons and save the wholesome. This apocalyptic worldly savior Maitreya rules over his terrestrial utopia without a Wheel-Turning King—thus he is simultaneously a political ruler and religious teacher. I argue that by associating Wu Zhao with this particular depiction of Maitreya\, she can also be seen as embodying both roles.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/april-hughes-apocalyptic-saviors-terrestrial-utopias-and-imperial-authority-the-reign-of-empress-wu-zetian-690-705ce/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191017T162313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191017T162313Z
UID:8710-1572955200-1572960600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Liu Jingfang - China’s Green Movement: Players\, Style\, and Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Jingfang\, Associate Professor\, School of Journalism\, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Karen Thornber\, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nWhile China is transforming itself into an economic powerhouse\, it also suffers from dire environmental degradation and crisis. Behind the notorious images of Beijing’s grey sky and smog-obscured landmarks\, frequently portrayed in Western media\, what has been done inside of China trying to change the situation? Who has made efforts and how? This talk gives an introduction of the less-known but growing environmental movement undertaken by diverse players in China over the past two and a half decades. It will examine how the multiple agents and institutions of change interact with each other at different levels\, engage in special coping strategies\, and struggle to activate a green movement of its own style and nature. From a communication perspective\, it will examine\, both empirically and theoretically\, the elements that construct a growing “green public culture” in China and China’s unique path to environmental protection. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/china-s-green-movement-players-style-and-strategy
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-jingfang-chinas-green-movement-players-style-and-strategy/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191029T125312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191029T125312Z
UID:8848-1572955200-1572960600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Randall Schriver - U.S. National Defense Strategy Implementation in the Indo-Pacific
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Randall G. Schriver\, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs\nModerator: Graham Allison\,  Douglas Dillon Professor of Government\, former Director of the Belfer Center\, and founding Dean of Harvard Kennedy School \n\nRSVP required.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/randall-shriver-u-s-national-defense-strategy-implementation-in-the-indo-pacific/
LOCATION:Allison Dining Room\, 5th Floor Taubman Building\, 15 Eliot St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T190000
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CREATED:20190913T150909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190913T150909Z
UID:8607-1572969600-1572980400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening and Panel Discussion - "One Child Nation"
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion:\nJialing Zhang\, Co-Director of “One Child Nation”\nMable Chan\, Founder of China Personified; One in a Billion Productions\nSusan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society\, Harvard University\nJie Li\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities\, Harvard University\nKaren Thornber\, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-panel-discussion-one-child-nation/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191106T120000
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CREATED:20191031T134238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191031T134238Z
UID:8865-1573041600-1573045200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jess Cohen-Tanugi - Five Tips for Creating Compelling Data Visualization
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jess Cohen-Tanugi\, Visualization Specialist\, Lamont Library\nRSVP:https://forms.gle/BSG1esNAVgPsa8p9A\nQuestions: fengentu@fas.harvard.edu
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jess-cohen-tanugi-five-tips-for-creating-compelling-data-visualization/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191106T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191106T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20190820T133640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190820T133640Z
UID:8457-1573042500-1573047000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Ya-Wen Lei - Coping With Growing Inequality
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Ya-Wen Lei\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-4/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191024T182019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T182019Z
UID:8824-1573144200-1573149600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:International Implications from Contemporary Developments in Chinese Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nHamish Coates\, Professor\, Institute of Education and Director\, Higher Education Division; Deputy Director\, Global Research Center for the Assessment of College and Student Development\, Tsinghua University\nWen Wen\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Education\, Tsinghua University; Deputy Director\, Asian Research Center\, Tsinghua University; Fulbright Scholar (2019-2020)\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nDiscussants:\nManja Klemenčič\, Department of Sociology\, Faculty of Arts and Sciences\, Harvard University\nFrancesca Purcell\, Faculty Director\, Higher Education Program\, Graduate School of Education\, Harvard University \nWhile consequences from the growth of Chinese higher education have already reverberated around the world\, we argue in this seminar that further substantial changes are only just starting to emerge. \nThis seminar begins by showing how changes in Chinese higher education over the last two decades have shaped major developments in other countries. \nNext\, it analyses contemporary developments in Chinese higher education\, building on research being led by Tsinghua University’s Institute of Education which touches on institutional governance and leadership\, the construction of infrastructure\, the changing nature of doctorates and the academic profession\, research goals and strategies\, emerging hybrid forms of teaching\, and the cultivation of students. \nThe seminar’s final contribution is to integrate these analyses and clarify emerging futures. Particular emphasis is placed on the nature of education and its contribution to the common good. \nhttps://universities-pastpresentfuture.mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/international-implications-contemporary-developments
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/international-implications-from-contemporary-developments-in-chinese-higher-education/
LOCATION:William James Hall\, Room 1550\, 33 kirkland st\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191010T121342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T121342Z
UID:8695-1573153200-1573160400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening - Fukuoka
DESCRIPTION:Directed by: Zhang Lu\nQ&A with Director following the screening\, moderated by Peng Hai\, PhD Candidate\, East Asian Languages and Civilizations \nHae-hyo and Jea-moon were very good friends in college\, eventually going their separate ways after falling in love with the same girl. They have not seen or heard from each other ever since. As time passes and Jea-moon approaches middle age\, the memory of his college life becomes ever more refreshed\, and begins to haunt him more and more. At this moment\, a strange girl\, So-dam\, not only intrudes into his quiet second-hand bookstore\, but also disturbs his life\, urging him to set out on a long journey to Japan to look for Hae-hyo. In Japan\, when the three of them finally meet in a local pub\, can the problems of their past be reconciled? \nAbout the Director:\nZhang Lu is a third-generation ethnically Korean filmmaker born in Yanbian\, Jilin Province\, China in 1962. He began his career with short film Eleven (2000)\, which was invited to Venice International Film Festival. His debut feature film Tang Poetry (2003) premiered at Locarno International Film Festival. His second feature Grain in Ear (2005) won the ACID award at Cannes Critics’ Week and the New Currents Award at Busan International Film Festival. Desert Dream (2007) and Dooman River (2011) were selected for the Berlin International Film Festival. Gyeongju (2014) was in the competition at Locarno Film Festival. He served on the jury at Busan International Film Festival in 2016\, and his feature A Quiet Dream (2006) was screened as the opening film of the festival that year. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation (BCAF) and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Special thanks to Parallax Films.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-fukuoka/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191108T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191108T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191010T121536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T121536Z
UID:8696-1573236000-1573243200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening - Jinpa
DESCRIPTION:Directed by: Pema Tseden\nQ&A with Director following the screening\, moderated by Benny Shaffer\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology \nOn an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet\, a truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and chat\, the truck driver notices that his new friend has a silver dagger strapped to his leg. He comes to understand that this man is out to kill someone who wronged him earlier in life. As he drops the hitchhiker off at a fork in the road\, little does the truck driver realize that their short time together has changed everything\, and that their destinies are inexorably intertwined. On the path of life\, sometimes we meet someone whose dreams overtake our own to the point that they converge. \nOfficial Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdK-yNrnQBk \nAbout the Director:\nWriter and director Pema Tseden was born in 1969 in Amdo\, a Tibetan region of Qinghai Province. He is widely recognized as the leading filmmaker of a newly emerging Tibetan cinema and the first director in China to make films entirely in the Tibetan language. Tseden has published more than 50 short stories and novels both in Tibetan and Mandarin; his work has won numerous awards including the Drang-char Tibetan Literature Prize and has been translated into English\, French\, and German. He began his film career in 2002. His feature films\, all of which have received great acclaim\, include The Grassland (2004)\, The Silent Holy Stones (2005)\, The Search (2009)\, Old Dog (2011)\, Tharlo (2015) and Jinpa (2019). Tseden is Chairman of the Directors Association of China\, and  also a member of the Filmmakers and Literary Societies of China. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation (BCAF) and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Special thanks to Livia Bloom of Icarus Films.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-jinpa/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Emergent Visions Film Screening,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T131500
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191028T143708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191028T143708Z
UID:8836-1573646400-1573650900@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Xin Zhang - Governance by Numbers: Origins\, Present and Future of China’s Social Credit System
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xin Zhang\, Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University; Associate Professor\, School of Law\, University of International Business and Economics\, Beijing\nCommenter/Discussant : Ya-Wen Lei\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard University \nAsian food will be provided.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xin-zhang-governance-by-numbers-origins-present-and-future-of-chinas-social-credit-system/
LOCATION:WCC 1010\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Mass. Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20190820T133907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190820T133907Z
UID:8459-1573647300-1573651800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Jane Perlez - On the trail of Xi Jinping: A New York Times Correspondent on Reporting in China
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Jane Perlez\, The New York Times
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jane-perlez-critical-issues-confronting-china-series/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T130000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191029T133539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191029T133539Z
UID:8851-1573732800-1573736400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Gerard Sanders and Xuan Gao - The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A 21st-Century Multilateral Development Bank
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nGerard Sanders\, General Counsel\, AIIB\nXuan Gao\, Senior Counsel and Head of Institutional Unit\, AIIB \nNon-pizza lunch will be served.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gerald-sanders-and-xuan-gao-the-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-a-21st-century-multilateral-development-bank/
LOCATION:Austin East\, Room 101\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191025T182849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191025T182849Z
UID:8831-1573732800-1573738200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Roger Shih-Chieh Lo - Redemptive Society and Cold War: Tongshanshe (Fellowship of Goodness) in Zhejiang\, Fujian\, and Taiwan\, 1949-1978
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Roger Shih-Chieh Lo\, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Michael Szonyi\, Harvard University \nThroughout the 20th century\, the two most influential redemptive societies in Chinese local society\, Tongshanshe (Fellowship of Goodness) and Yiguangdao (Persistent way) both suffered various level of crackdown from different regimes. From fieldwork and local archives\, however\, it is evident that these two redemptive societies played a very important political role in local society. In this talk of the development of Tongshanshe in Zhejiang\, Fujian and Taiwan during the cold war\, I will discuss the following three questions: first\, what is the significance of this redemptive society in local society during the cold war? Secondly\, besides the suppression of evil cults from the government\, what are the other undisclosed political interactions we can find from these local popular associations and national\, or even international\, politics? Finally\, what kind of new explanation about post-1949 history can be found from this local history study. \nHarvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/roger-shih-chieh-lo-redemptive-society-and-cold-war-tongshanshe-fellowship-of-goodness-in-zhejiang-fujian-and-taiwan-1949-1978/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T164500
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191106T180455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T180455Z
UID:8895-1573745400-1573749900@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Faan Chen - Driving and the Built Environment: Is Transit-Oriented Development Effective in Shanghai?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Faan Chen\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard-China Project\, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, Harvard University \nThe rapid growth of cities such as Shanghai in China has presented many transportation\, land use and climate change challenges for local government officials\, planning and transit practitioners and property developers. These challenges include traffic congestion\, energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that contribute to global warming. As one of the more visible urban forms of smart growth\, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has been actively promoted as a model for urban development in areas around transit stations to solve such challenges. The vast majority of studies of TOD have been conducted in North American and European cities\, while research of TOD is still in its infancy in most developing countries\, including China\, where residential and transport choices are likely to be more constrained and travel-related attitudes quite different from those in the developed world. Using the data collected from more than 8000 residents living in TOD and non-TOD neighborhoods in the city of Shanghai\, this study aims to partly fill the gaps by investigating the causal relationship between the built environment and travel behavior in the Chinese context\, and specifically to examine whether altering the built environment can actually lead to meaningful changes in travel behavior\, e.g.\, less Vehicle Kilometers Traveled (VKT) and GHG emissions. \nSponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment\, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/faan-chen-driving-and-the-built-environment-is-transit-oriented-development-effective-in-shanghai/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191123T075959
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191115T154147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T154147Z
UID:8975-1573804800-1574495999@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Reveal 揭幕 - 2019 Harvard Taiwan Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:The first Taiwan Arts Festival in Boston titled “Reveal” provides a platform for many artwork inspired by Taiwan. Sharing inspirations\, the selected artwork display and uncover both similarities and differences of cultural influences and creative expression through the forms of painting\, photography\, music\, architecture\, and archaeology. Through this exhibition\, we hope to bring viewers from all backgrounds to experience the diversity and complexity of Taiwanese culture. \nMore info: https://www.facebook.com/events/377213916500075
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reveal-%e6%8f%ad%e5%b9%95-2019-harvard-taiwan-arts-festival/
LOCATION:Arts Wing\, Second Floor\, Smith Campus Center\, 1350 Mass Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T130000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191029T133831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191029T133831Z
UID:8853-1573819200-1573822800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Gerard Sanders - Legal Paths in the World of International Organizations
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gerard Sanders\, General Counsel\, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gerard-sanders-legal-paths-in-the-world-of-international-organizations/
LOCATION:WCC 1010\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Mass. Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191029T132756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191029T132756Z
UID:8850-1573833600-1573840800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Li Jin - Interpreting Demons: Armed Resistance and Epistemic Struggle in 1950s Tibet
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Jin\, Department of Anthropology\, University of Michigan \nIn the 1950s\, Chinese incursion drove Tibetans in Sichuan to launch a guerrilla war. This war led to the exile of the Dalai Lama. Retrospectively assessing this war\, Tibet’s monastic leaders have condemned it as a betrayal of the Buddhist virtue of non-violence. This talk seeks to disturb this hegemonic Buddhist attitude by arguing that certain Buddhist texts and discourses actually contributed to the outbreak of war. I will focus on prophetic texts attributed to Tibet’s reincarnate lamas. In terrifying\, apocalyptic language\, these texts described how “demon armies” would destroy Buddhist monasteries—unless Tibetans undertook the task of subjugating the demons. For many Tibetans at the time\, these prophecies could be interpreted as either calls to arms or admonitions to forbear. From this ambiguity\, we can further detect the complex roles of Buddhist monastics during the guerrilla war\, and a continuous epistemological struggle they have experienced since then.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/li-jin-interpreting-demons-armed-resistance-and-epistemic-struggle-in-1950s-tibet/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191108T182828Z
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UID:8928-1574067600-1574092800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:改革开放中的中国与世界 | China and the World In the Age of Reform and Opening Up
DESCRIPTION: 9:00 – 10:00am 韩钢 Han Gang\, East China Normal University：1980年代中国改革的高层政治格局 China’s High-level Political Structures During the Reforms of the 1980s \n10:15 – 11:15am: 肖冬连 Xiao Donglian\, East China Normal University：农村改革与中国市场的转轨 Rural Reforms and China’s Marketization  \n11:30 – 12:30: Robert S. Ross\, Boston College\, Fairbank Center Associate: The Origins of the New “Cold War”: U.S.-China Relations\, 2010-2015 \n1:30 – 2:30: 牛军 Niu Jun\, East China Normal University: 改革开放与中美关系 The Impact of Reform and Opening Up on U.S.-China Relations \n2:45 – 3:45:  Joseph Fewsmith\, Boston University\, Fairbank Center Associate: Balance and Dominance in Elite Politics (精英政治：平衡与支配)
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/%e6%94%b9%e9%9d%a9%e5%bc%80%e6%94%be%e4%b8%ad%e7%9a%84%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e4%b8%8e%e4%b8%96%e7%95%8c-china-and-the-world-in-the-age-of-reform-and-opening-up/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
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SUMMARY:Zeb Raft - ‘Echoes’ in the Shishuo Xinyu: Repetition and its Significance in Early Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zeb Raft\, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy\, Academia Sinica \nThe Shishuo xinyu\, the fifth-century collection of anecdotes\, is full of echoes.  Stories can be repeated\, in somewhat different form.  Individual entries may juxtapose two accounts that are different\, yet similar in certain respects.  Common motifs figure prominently.  How should we interpret this “echo effect”?  This paper identifies some of the factors involved in the formation of echoes and considers different ways of explaining the phenomenon.  Approaches include the historical (seeking the source of an echo)\, the cultural (defining what an echo expresses)\, and the aesthetic (following the artful construction of an echo sequence).  But there should also be ways of addressing the echo more directly\, taking it not as the effect of something else but as a motive in its own right\, shaping both the culture of early medieval China and our perspective on that culture. \nZeb Raft is an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy\, Academia Sinica.  His research area is China from the Eastern Han through the Tang dynasties (i.e.\, roughly\, the first millennium of the Common Era)\, with a focus on poetry and historiography in this period.  His main thematic interests include communication\, rhetoric\, textual criticism\, and translation.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zeb-raft-echoes-in-the-shishuo-xinyu-repetition-and-its-significance-in-early-medieval-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191105T191729Z
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SUMMARY:Repercussions: The Hong Kong Protests in Context
DESCRIPTION:Chair: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director\, Harvard University Asia Center\n\nSteven Goldstein\, Sophia Smith Professor of Government\, Emeritus\, Smith College; Associate and Organizer\, Taiwan Studies Workshop\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\nMary Alice Haddad\, Professor of Government\, East Asian Studies\, and Environmental Studies\, Wesleyan University\nSooyeon Kang\, Pre-doctoral Fellow\, Carr Center for Human Rights\, Harvard Kennedy School; PhD Candidate\, Josef Korbel School of International Studies\, University of Denver\nDavid Slater\, Professor of Cultural Anthropology\, Sophia University\, Tokyo\nJeffrey Wasserstrom\, Chancellor’s Professor of History\, University of California\, Irvine \nAsia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center.  Co-sponsored by: the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Korea Institute\, the Program on U.S. Japan Relations\, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/repercussions-the-hong-kong-protests-in-context/
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:20191120T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191120T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20190820T133750Z
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SUMMARY:Geremie R. Barmé - Tales from Two Chinese Cities: Resistance in the 2019 Year of Anniversaries
DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker:  Geremie R. Barmé\, Editor\, China Heritage \nFrom late 2018\, China has marked a series of major anniversaries and commemorations.  A century of political\, cultural and social upheaval has been brought into sharp focus by tumultuous contemporary events. Today\, the past is living in to the present in ways that are significant not only for the ‘Chinese commonwealth’\, but also for China in the World. This talk will focus on two cities — Beijing and Hong Kong — and on Geremie Barmé’s work for China Heritage (https://chinaheritage.net) concerning the case of Xu Zhangrun at Tsinghua University and the uprising in Hong Kong. \nGeremie R. Barmé is the editor of China Heritage (https://chinaheritage.net)\, a journal devoted to history\, literature\, translation and thought that is produced under the aegis of The Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology\, which he co-founded with John Minford in 2016. Previously\, in 2010\, he founded The Australian Centre on China in the World at The Australian National University. Barmé has worked as a journalist\, academic historian\, editor\, translator and film-maker. During his academic career he founded and edited China Heritage Quarterly (2005-2012) and The China Story (2012-2016)\, as well as editing East Asian History (from 1990 to 2007). His An Artistic Exile: the life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975) was awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize in 2004. Other books include Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience (1986; edited with John Minford); New Ghosts\, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices (1992; edited with Linda Jaivin); Shades of Mao (1996) and In the Red  (1999)\, and The Forbidden City (2008). He has also worked on a number of prize-winning documentary films\, including The Gate of Heavenly Peace (Boston: Long Bow Group\, 1995)\, and published two collections of Chinese essays in Hong Kong.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-5/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by International Society for Legal History \, American Society for Legal History\, The International Society for Chinese Law and History\, and the Harvard Law School Program in East Asian Legal Studies \nGraduate Student Panel \n11:00 AM – 1:00 PM\nChair: Tahirih Lee (FSU) \nYue Jiang (Stanford)    Commentator: Michael Szonyi (Harvard)\nGender\, Property\, and Lineage in Mid-Qing: Property Disputes Between Women and Lineages \nRui Hua (Harvard)       Commentator: Sakura Christmas (Bowdoin)\nImperial Wars in A Magistrate’s Court: Translingual Legal Literacy and the Everyday Politics of Territorial Land Laws in Manchuria\, 1900-1931 \nXinyu Huang (Yale)     Commentator: Thomas Buoye (Tulsa)\nThe Censorial Impeachments under Qianlong and Jiaqing Reign (1736-1820) \nJingjian Wu (Yale)       Commentator: William Alford (Harvard)\nW.A.P. Martin\, Naturalism and The Translation of International Law in Late Qing China \nLunch Break\n1:00 – 2:00 PM \nLegal and Intellectual Constructs of Empire\n2:00 – 3:30 PM \nChair: Phillip Thai (Northeastern)\nCommentator: Fei-Hsien Wang (Indiana) \nColin Jones (Columbia)\nLiving Law\, Legal Consciousness\, and the Afterlives of Empire: The Origins and Legacy of the North China Rural Customs Survey (1941-1944) \nTristan Brown (MIT)\nBreaking the Land\, Breaking the Law: Fengshui and the End of Imperial China \nPeter Thilly (Univ. of Mississippi)\nConsular Jurisdiction and the Pioneers of Flexible Citizenship \nCoffee Break\n3:30 – 4:00 PM \nLaying Down and Crossing Borders\n4:00 – 6:00 PM \nChair: Pär Cassel (Michigan)\nCommentator: Taisu Zhang (Yale) \nGeng Tian (Peking Univ.)\nThe Boundary Works in the Qing’s Legal Analogies between “Violent” Social Groups\, 1750-1850 \nYonglin Jiang (Bryn Mawr)\nThe Contested Order: Central-Local Legal Dynamics on the Borderlands of the Ming Empire \nJenny Huangfu (Skidmore)\nThe Last Refuge of the Scoundrel: Transnational Fugitives and the Spaces of Law in Late Qing China\, 1860s-1900s \nLarissa Pitts (Quinnipiac)\nThe Abortive Forest Law of 1914: Russian Timber Merchants\, Chinese ‘Traitors\,’ and the Collapse of Modern Chinese Environmental Law
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/workshop-law-and-empire-in-the-sino-asian-context/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
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SUMMARY:Pan Weilin - Dialectics of Waste: Recycling Campaigns in Socialist China\, 1949-1978
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pan Weilin\, Assistant Professor\, Institute of China Studies\, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry\,  Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThis talk will examine how the national system of China’s waste recovery and recycling took shape through the mass movements during the heydays of the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Waste recovery and recycling gained political weight after Mao’s idea of “comprehensive usage” (zonghe liyong) had become the guiding ideology of China’s rapid industrialization. It was not only a matter of production and productivity\, but also a matter of dialectical materialism. The usable and the useless were perceived as a unity of opposites. In a “scientific”/ideal scenario\, the use value can be unceasingly resurrected as long as human endeavor implies. I will argue that the idea and practice of waste recovery and recycling in that period showcased the revolutionary romanticism of the relationship between people and state\, as well as people and nature. It is a socialist legacy that speaks to our contemporary concerns about sustainability and pollution control in post-reform urban China. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/dialectics-waste-recycling-campaigns-socialist-china-1949-1978
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/pan-weilin-dialectics-of-waste-recycling-campaigns-in-socialist-china-1949-1978/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191114T170722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191114T170722Z
UID:8970-1574352000-1574366400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Hsin-Hsin Pan - Foreign Visits and the Image of National Security Defender: An Analysis of Voter Attitudes in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hsin-Hsin Pan\, Post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Science\, Academia Sinica\, Taipei\, Taiwan\nDiscussant: Chong Ja Ian\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, National University of Singapore \nThis paper looks into the effect of foreign visits to major powers on an image of national security defenders for politicians of minor powers. We have three findings. First\, foreign visits are effective. Second\, visits to the US is more so than China. Moreover\, visits to the US in perceived fair Taiwan-US relations for reassurance of informal ally\, but  visits to China in perceived bad Taiwan-China relations for damage control. \nFor more information about the speaker’s research\, please visit https://sites.google.com/site/phsinhsin/
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/pan-hsin-hsin-foreign-visits-and-the-image-of-national-security-defender-an-analysis-of-voter-attitudes-in-taiwan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191125T132500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191125T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001112
CREATED:20191107T142228Z
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SUMMARY:American Factory: Film Screening and Discussion with Directors
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nJulia Reichert\, Director\nSteven Bognar\, Director\nMeg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration\nKris Rondeau\, Director of AFSCME New England \nThe film profiles the launch of the Fuyao Glass factory in Moraine\, Ohio\, sited in a former General Motors plant. To launch the factory\, Fuyao brought in hundreds of experienced Chinese factory workers to Ohio to train their U.S. counterparts. The film provides the economic and social issues this sparked\, including management challenges associated with labor dynamics\, a unionization effort\, and managing an operation with workers from two very different cultures. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-factory-documentary-screening-and-panel-discussion-tickets-80070269331
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/american-factory-film-screening-and-discussion-with-directors/
LOCATION:Klarman Hall\, Harvard Business School\, Kresge Way\, Boston\, MA\, 02163\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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