BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200123T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200221T075959 DTSTAMP:20260430T204622 CREATED:20200127T154602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T154602Z UID:9064-1579766400-1582271999@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Exhibition - Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers DESCRIPTION:[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”]\n [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”]\n [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Organized by: Yong Han Poh\, Harvard College ’20 \nExhibition Reception: Thursday\, February 6\, 2020; 4:15 p.m.\nAsian Centers’ Lounge\, 1st Floor\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge \nSponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Harvard University Asia Center\, and the Mahindra Humanities Center with additional support from Migrant Writers Singapore and Migrant Workers Photography Festival[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column]\n [/et_pb_row]\n [/et_pb_section] URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibition-life-in-singapore-views-from-migrant-workers/ LOCATION:Asian Centers Lounge\, 1730 Cambridge St. First Floor\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204622 CREATED:20200115T161317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T161317Z UID:9035-1580817600-1580823000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Wang Xiying - Intimacy\, Desire\, and Reproduction: Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Beijing DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wang Xiying\, Professor\, Faculty of Education\, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nThis talk focuses on understanding the daily lives of women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHA) and their coping strategies of the illness within the current Chinese society. Selecting intimacy\, desire and reproduction as three key concepts to explore their lives\, this talk is attentive to the ways in which gender inequality is played out in their practices of romantic and intimate relationships\, womanhood and motherhood\, marriage and family\, sexuality and reproductive health. Through the narrative of their lives\, the talk attempts to provide a brief sketch of HIV/AIDS history in China\, and illustrate how the HIV/AIDS issue is deeply related to broader social issues including unsafe blood and plasma selling\, massive scale of migration\, spreading of drug use\, emerging LGBT communities and sexual revolution. This talk depicts the institutional and social structure transformation embedded within WLHA’s personal experience in the fast-changing contemporary China. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/intimacy-desire-and-reproduction-women-living-hivaids-beijing URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-xiying-intimacy-desire-and-reproduction-women-living-with-hiv-aids-in-beijing/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204622 CREATED:20200103T152619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200103T152619Z UID:9010-1580833800-1580839200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Annual Neuhauser Lecture Featuring Ambassador Samantha Power - China\, the UN\, and the Future of Human Rights DESCRIPTION:Watch this event on YouTube: \n \nListen to this event on Soundcloud: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this event here. \nSpeaker: Samantha Power\nU.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations\, 2013-2017\nAnna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government\nWilliam D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights\, Harvard Law School \nAmbassador Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School. \nFrom 2013 to 2017 Power served as the 28th U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations\, as well as a member of President Obama’s cabinet. In this role\, Power became the public face of U.S. opposition to Russian aggression in Ukraine and Syria\, negotiated the toughest sanctions in a generation against North Korea\, lobbied to secure the release of political prisoners\, helped build new international law to cripple ISIL’s financial networks\, and supported President Obama’s path-breaking actions to end the Ebola crisis. \nFrom 2009 to 2013\, Power served on the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights\, where she focused on issues including atrocity prevention\, UN reform\, LGBT and women’s rights\, the protection of religious minorities\, and the prevention of human trafficking. \nBefore joining the U.S. government\, Power was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School. \nPower’s book\, “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003. Power is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Chasing the Flame: One Man’s Fight to Save the World (2008) and the editor\, with Derek Chollet\, of The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World (2011). Her most recent book\, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (2019)\, was a New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and USA Today bestseller\, and was selected as one of the best books of 2019 by the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Economist\, NPR\, and TIME. Power began her career as a journalist\, reporting from places such as Bosnia\, East Timor\, Kosovo\, Rwanda\, Sudan\, and Zimbabwe and has twice been named to TIME’s “100 Most Influential People” list. \nPower earned a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She immigrated to the United States from Ireland at the age of 9 and today lives in Concord\, Massachusetts with her husband Cass Sunstein and their two young children. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/annual-neuhauser-lecture-featuring-ambassador-samantha-power-china-the-un-and-the-future-of-human-rights/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204622 CREATED:20200115T201649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T201649Z UID:9036-1580904000-1580907600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lan Yan - The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century of Chinese History DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lan Yan\, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking\, Lazard; Chairman and CEO\, Lazard of Greater China URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lan-yan-the-house-of-yan-a-family-at-the-heart-of-a-century-of-chinese-history/ LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204622 CREATED:20200127T135924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T135924Z UID:9060-1580904000-1580907600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Kwok-Leong Tang - Digital China Lab: Preparation for Digital Scholarship in Chinese Studies DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kwok-Leong Tang\, Digital China Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nDigital China Lab is a series of workshops on data collecting and wrangling\, which will be offered by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies this semester. Kwok-leong will talk about the difficulties faced by humanities students in engaging with digital methodologies and explain his rationale for planning the workshops. \nKwok-Leong Tang provides support and consultation to anyone interested in adopting digital tools and methods in their research related to Chinese studies. He received his Ph.D. in history and Asian studies from Pennsylvania State University\, where he worked as a postdoctoral teaching fellow after graduation. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kwok-leong-tang-digital-china-lab-preparation-for-digital-scholarship-in-chinese-studies/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200206T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200206T173000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204622 CREATED:20200116T133215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200116T133215Z UID:9038-1581005700-1581010200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Alice Chen and Joseph Fewsmith - The Implications of Taiwan's Presidential and Parliamentary Elections DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to a panel discussion on Taiwan’s January 11th presidential and parliamentary elections with Alice Chen MPA/ID 2022 and Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University and a fellow at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. This discussion will be moderated by Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich. The panel will unpack the results of last month’s elections and discuss their impact on Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region more broadly. \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alice-chen-and-joseph-fewsmith-the-implications-of-taiwans-presidential-and-parliamentary-elections/ LOCATION:Land Lecture Hall\, 4th Floor\, Belfer Building\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204622 CREATED:20200127T155030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T155030Z UID:9068-1581077700-1581084000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Yong Han Poh - Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yong Han Poh\, Harvard College\, ’20\nChair: Nicole Newendorp\, Lecturer on Social Studies; Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies\, Harvard University URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yong-han-poh-life-in-singapore-views-from-migrant-workers/ LOCATION:Massachusetts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200127T153406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T153406Z UID:9063-1581336000-1581339600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Wen-Chin Wu - How does China’s Foreign Aid Undermine the Effectiveness of US Foreign Policy? —Evidence from UN General Assembly Voting Data DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wen-Chin Wu\, Assistant Research Fellow\, Institute of Political Science\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Christina Davis\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute \nThe economic rise of China is inspiring a burgeoning literature on how China uses its economic power to influence other countries’ domestic politics and foreign policy. In this study\, I analyze how China’s foreign aid discourages its recipients from complying with US foreign policy goals in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Previous studies have shown that the US can successfully lobby other states to support its position in votes on UN resolutions that it deems important to US interests\, such as those on human rights issues. In this study\, I use a new dataset on Chinese foreign aid and hypothesize that the emergence of China as a major donor makes developing countries less dependent on US aid. In particular\, third countries would be less likely to comply with the US on important votes in the UNGA if they receive more aid from China. \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/how-does-china-s-foreign-aid-undermine-effectiveness-us-foreign-policy-evidence-un-general URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wen-chin-wu-how-does-chinas-foreign-aid-undermine-the-effectiveness-of-us-foreign-policy-evidence-from-un-general-assembly-voting-data/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200205T181623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T181623Z UID:9082-1581444000-1581451200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Sean Sylvia - The Quality of Primary Care in Rural China: Evidence from Mystery Patients DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sean Sylvia\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Health Policy and Management\, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sean-sylvia-the-quality-of-primary-care-in-rural-china-evidence-from-mystery-patients/ LOCATION:Harvard Chan School\, Building 1\, Room 1208\, 677 Huntington Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02115\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200106T155303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T155303Z UID:9015-1581509700-1581514200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Kent Calder - Super Continent: BRI and the Emergence of an Integrated Eurasia DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Kent Calder\, Johns Hopkins University \nKent Calder serves as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at JHU. He is also Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies\, and served from 2016-2018 as Director of Asia Programs. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins SAIS in 2003\, Calder served as Special Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan\, Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies\, Professor at Princeton University\, Lecturer on Government at Harvard\, and as the first Executive Director of Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations. Calder received his PhD from Harvard University in 1979\, where he worked under the direction of Edwin O. Reischauer. A specialist in East Asian political economy\, he has spent eleven years living and researching in Japan and four years elsewhere in East Asia. In 2014\, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun\, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Calder’s most recent works include Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan (Stanford\, 2017); Singapore: Smart City\, Smart State (Brookings\, 2017); Asia in Washington (Brookings\, 2014); and The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics (Yale\, 2012) URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-7/ LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T183000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200205T174331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T174331Z UID:9080-1581613200-1581618600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Kwok-leong Tang - Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding DESCRIPTION:Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR \nThis workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming and coding. Participants will use two Chrome extensions to parse information from websites and learn basic knowledge of HTML\, CSS\, and JavaScript. In order to maintain the best interaction between the instructor and participants\, each session is limited to twelve participants. Priority will be given to graduate students and on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nSession One: Thursday\, Feb 13 2020 (Registration deadline: Feb 11)\nSession Two: Thursday\, Feb 27 2020 (Registration deadline: Feb 25)\n\n(Both sessions offer the same content.) \nPlease bring your laptop with Google Chrome installed. A Google account is needed.  \nPlease contact Kwok-leong (kwokleongtang@fas.harvard.edu) if you have any questions. \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kwok-leong-tang-digital-china-lab-web-scraping-without-coding/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T163000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200127T145500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T145500Z UID:9062-1581692400-1581697800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Daniel Koss - Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist Party DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Koss\, Lecturer\, EALC\, Harvard University \nIn most non-democratic countries\, today governing forty-four percent of the world population\, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative processes\, this book presents the case of China and shows that rank and-file members of the Communist Party allow the state to penetrate local communities. Subnational comparative analysis demonstrates that in ‘red areas’ with high party saturation\, the state is most effectively enforcing policy and collecting taxes. Because party membership patterns are extremely enduring\, they must be explained by events prior to the Communist takeover in 1949. Frontlines during the anti-colonial Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) continue to shape China’s political map even today. Newly available evidence from the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) shows how a strong local party basis sustained the regime in times of existential crisis. \nThis event is part of the Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk Series\, in which faculty discuss their recent publications. The event is open to all. Light refreshments will be served. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daniel-koss-where-the-party-rules-the-rank-and-file-of-chinas-communist-party/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200127T135258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T135258Z UID:9058-1582034400-1582041600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Dirk van der Kley - Less is More…The New BRI in Central Asia DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dirk van der Kley\, Program Director for Policy Research\, China Matters \nXi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative has changed significantly in Central Asia in the last few years. In particular\, direct Chinese government lending through Eximbank to Central Asian states has completely dried up. Instead the focus has shifted to smaller investment projects that create jobs for Central Asians and exports for Central Asian states\, while also providing benefits for Chinese companies. This is a much tougher task than just building infrastructure. It forces Chinese companies to operate in challenging business environments in Central Asia in key sectors. This presentation will systematically examine how these changes are paying out in each Central Asian state. It will demonstrate that Chinese companies have their own agency. For example\, they still try to shift debt burdens onto recipient states through hidden means or joint ventures with Central Asian state-owned enterprises. \n  URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dirk-van-der-kley-less-is-morethe-new-bri-in-central-asia/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200106T155426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T155426Z UID:9016-1582114500-1582119000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Jude Blanchette - What's Communist about the Communist Party of China? DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Jude Blanchette – Center for Strategic and International Studies \nThe speaker will explore the extant ideological and institutional legacies of socialism and Marxism within the current day CCP. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jude-blanchette-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 Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200212T140349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T140349Z UID:9131-1582124400-1582131600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Mark Elliott and Kirsten Weld - The Public Face of History series: The Historian Confronting Political Controversies DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nMark Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University\nKirsten Weld\, Professor of History\, Harvard University URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mark-elliott-and-kirsten-weld-the-public-face-of-history-series-the-historian-confronting-political-controversies/ LOCATION:History Department Conference Room\, Robinson Hall\, 35 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T164500 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200218T153135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200218T153135Z UID:9139-1582212600-1582217100@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Xi Yang - China's Coal-to-Gas Policy for Residential Heating: Between the Shadow and the Light DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xi Yang\, Visiting Researcher\, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor\, China University of Petroleum Beijing \nUnder the pressure of improving its environmental governance\, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known as “coal-to-gas” in residential heating in Northern region. This bold policy sets strict gas replacement targets for “26 + 2” key cities. However\, China suffered from severe gas shortages in the 2017-2018 winter\, which aroused widespread concern. Maintaining the natural gas balance became thus a challenging task for China\, especially with the policy extended nationwide. Also\, the contribution of gas substitution to air quality improvement remains uncertain. In the context of the Paris Agreement\, the feasibility of China’s gas substitution policy is vital not only for the accomplishment of its NDCs (Nationally Determined Contributions)\, but also to global decarbonization. Based on scenario analysis with the bottom-up MAPLE (China Multi-pollutant Abatement Planning and Long-term benefit Evaluation) model\, this talk will address current debates and discuss the potential impact of the coal-to-gas policy. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xi-yang-chinas-coal-to-gas-policy-for-residential-heating-between-the-shadow-and-the-light/ LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200128T155606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200128T155606Z UID:9071-1582560000-1582567200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Zvi Ben-Dor Benite - "The 18th Brumaire of Yuan Shikai\," By Mao Zedong: History\, Classical Commentary\, and Politics. DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite\, New York University \nTaking a small comment by the young Mao Zedong in his “Classroom Notes” as its point of departure\, this talk revisits the very early days after the fall of the last dynasty. It ties them to events in post-revolutionary France and the late Han period. It ends and begins with a comment on the relationship between Mao Zedong Thought\, Mao Studies\, and Chinese History. \nZvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches in the Department of History and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He studied pre-modern and modern Chinese History in Jerusalem\, in China\, and later at UCLA. His research centers on the interaction between religions in world history and cultural and intellectual exchanges across vast space and deep time. He is the author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard\, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford\, 2009); and co-editor and translator of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity\, Culture\, and Politics (Brandeis\, 2013); and an edited volume on Sovereignty (Columbia University Press 2017). URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zvi-ben-dor-benite-the-18th-brumaire-of-yuan-shikai-by-mao-zedong-history-classical-commentary-and-politics/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200331T075959 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200227T141202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200227T141202Z UID:9180-1582617600-1585641599@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Exhibition - Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape DESCRIPTION:Photographs by Lisa Ross \nSponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard Asia Center Arts Initiative; with support from the Provostial Fund Committee\, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibition-elegy-to-a-uyghur-dreamscape/ LOCATION:Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse\, CGIS South\, Lower Level\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200207T170023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T170023Z UID:9094-1582632000-1582637400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Zhai Shaodong - Ground Stone Tool Production: A Forsaken Craft During Early Urbanization in China DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhai Shaodong\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Archaeology\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2019-20\nChair/discussant: Rowan Flad\, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University \nIn China\, ground stone tools emerged during the transition period from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic time. However\, they did not take the place of knapped stone tools as the main production tools until the Yangshao Culture. This process coincided with the change from hunting and gathering to agriculture and sedentism. Therefore\, ground stone tools greatly supported agricultural development and sedentism. If there were ground stone tools\, there was ground stone tool production. Currently\, there are not many clues about ground stone tool production during and before the Yangshao Culture in the Central Plains of China\, but there are some related data from Taosi\, Erlitou and Yin Ruins. These three sites also represented the early urbanization process in China. This talk will compare ground stone tool production at these three sites in order to see the status of ground stone tool production during early urbanization in the Central Plains of China \nhttps://harvard-yenching.org/events/ground-stone-tool-production-forsaken-craft-during-early-urbanization-china URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhai-shaodong-ground-stone-tool-production-a-forsaken-craft-during-early-urbanization-in-china/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200220T171647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200220T171647Z UID:9155-1582648200-1582653600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Jessica Brandt and Torrey Taussig - China\, Russia\, and Europe’s Authoritarian Challenge DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nJessica Brandt\, Head of Policy and Research\, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Fellow\, The German Marshall Fund of the United States\nTorrey Taussig\, Research Director\, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship\, Harvard Kennedy School \nChair: Sebastián Royo\, Professor of Government\, Suffolk University; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020\, Local Affiliate and Seminar Co-chair\, CES\, Harvard University \nhttps://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2020/02/china-russia-europe-authoritarian URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jessica-brandt-and-torrey-taussig-china-russia-and-europes-authoritarian-challenge/ LOCATION:Adolphus Busch Hall\, 27 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Events of Interest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200106T155644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T155644Z UID:9017-1582719300-1582723800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lenora Chu - Lessons from China: The World's Largest Education System DESCRIPTION:Read event summary here \nSpeaker: Lenora Chu – International Correspondent\, Christian Science Monitor; Author\, Little Soldiers \nBased on journalistic research as well as her own experiences as a parent navigating the Chinese education system\, Lenora will illuminate the impact of culture on education and global competitiveness\, discuss differences between Chinese and Western systems\, and detail their strengths and challenges. \nLenora Chu is a journalist and author of the award-winning Little Soldiers\, a narrative account of China’s education system (HarperCollins\, 2017). She is also currently a Berlin-based international correspondent for the nonprofit news organization Christian Science Monitor. With 15 years’ experience in the U.S. and China\, Lenora’s work illuminates the intersection of culture\, education\, policy and global competitiveness — a passion borne in part of growing up with Chinese parents in America. \nIn 2019\, she was named to the public intellectuals program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. As a commentator\, Lenora has appeared on NPR\, CBS\, BBC\, and the CBC\, and her articles and op-eds have been published in The Wall Street Journal\, The New York Times\, The Cut and Business Insider\, among others.  Her first book won ASJA’s 2018 nonfiction prize and was also shortlisted for Stanford’s Saroyan International Prize. A former media and management consultant\, Lenora is the past president of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents’ Club. She holds degrees in engineering and journalism from Stanford and Columbia Universities. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lenora-chu-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 Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T183000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200205T174707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T174707Z UID:9081-1582822800-1582828200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Kwok-leong Tang - Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding DESCRIPTION:Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR \nThis workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming and coding. Participants will use two Chrome extensions to parse information from websites and learn basic knowledge of HTML\, CSS\, and JavaScript. In order to maintain the best interaction between the instructor and participants\, each session is limited to twelve participants. Priority will be given to graduate students and on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nSession One: Thursday\, Feb 13 2020 (Registration deadline: Feb 11)\nSession Two: Thursday\, Feb 27 2020 (Registration deadline: Feb 25)\n\n(Both sessions offer the same content.) \nPlease bring your laptop with Google Chrome installed. A Google account is needed.  \nPlease contact Kwok-leong (kwokleongtang@fas.harvard.edu) if you have any questions. URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kwok-leong-tang-digital-china-lab-web-scraping-without-coding-2/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T204623 CREATED:20200212T135124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T135124Z UID:9130-1582891200-1582898400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Going Viral: The Coronavirus and its Regional and Global Implications DESCRIPTION:Watch again on YouTube: \n \nListen again on Soundcloud: \n \nRead and download the transcript for this event here. \nSpeakers:\nBarry Bloom\, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health\, Harvard Chan School of Public Health\nHoward Markel\, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine; Director\, Center for the History of Medicine\, University of Michigan\nElanah Uretsky\, Assistant Professor\, International and Global Studies\, Brandeis University\nWinnie Chi-Man Yip\, Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard Chan School of Public Health\n\nModerator: Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School \nAsia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series\, Harvard University Asia Center.  Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the China Health Partnership\, Harvard Chan School of Public Health URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-going-viral-the-coronavirus-and-its-regional-and-global-implications/ LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR