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SUMMARY:Lucas R. Bender - The Eternal Frontier of China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: Changing Attitudes Towards Ethnocultural Others in Tang-Dynasty Texts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lucas R. Bender\, Yale University \nThe seventh and early-eighth centuries have often been considered the period of “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire” on account of their relative tolerance of religious and ideological diversity\, their acceptance of significant “foreign” populations in the capital and on the borderlands\, and their active recruitment of non-“Han” ethnicities into the military and civil ranks. At the same time\, however\, surviving texts from this period also evince attitudes no less xenophobic than those found in texts from the ninth through eleventh centuries\, when scholars have often claimed that China became less open to ethnocultural others. This talk will argue that what changes between these periods are not\, in fact\, contemporary attitudes towards “the barbarians\,” who were almost universally reviled in surviving texts from throughout the Tang. Instead\, changing ideas about texts themselves\, and about the ways that texts should ideally operate within the world\, produced a transformation in how longstanding and relatively unchanging tropes about ethnocultural others were understood and deployed. The apparent decline of elite “cosmopolitan” attitudes from the seventh century to the tenth thus reflects\, in significant part\, a shift in literary theory. \nLucas Rambo Bender is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University. He graduated from Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 2016. His book on the great Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu is forthcoming in the summer of 2021 from the Harvard University Asia Center Press\, and he is currently at work on a second project\, about the oft-remarked but rarely-interrogated “pluralism” of the late Chinese middle ages. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrc-yvrD8oH9KrvPpFFw9ytwB2Uicb5hlH.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lucas-r-bender-the-eternal-frontier-of-chinas-cosmopolitan-empire-tropes-of-identity-and-difference-in-the-tang-dynasty/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201104T123000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Jeffrey A. Bader: Implications of the Election for Policy toward China
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Jeffrey Bader\, Senior Fellow\, John L. Thornton China Center\, Brookings Institution \nJeffrey Bader is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. \nFrom 2009 until 2011\, Bader was special assistant to the president of the United States for national security affairs at the National Security Council. In that capacity\, he was the principal advisor to President Obama on Asia. \nBader served from 2005 to 2009 as the director of the China Initiative and\, subsequently\, as the first director of the John L. Thornton China Center. \nDuring his three decade career with the U.S. government\, Bader was principally involved in U.S.-China relations at the State Department\, the National Security Council\, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative. In 2001\, as assistant U.S. trade representative\, he led the United States delegation in completing negotiations on the accession of China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization. \nBader served as a Foreign Service officer in the People’s Republic of China\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, Namibia\, Zambia\, Congo\, and the United States Mission to the United Nations. During the 1990s\, he was deputy assistant secretary of state responsible for China\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, and Southeast Asia; director of Asian affairs at the National Security Council; and director of the State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs. He served as U.S. ambassador to Namibia from 1999 to 2001. \nBader is the author of “Obama and China’s Rise: An Insider’s Account of America’s Asia Strategy\,” published in 2012 by Brookings Institution Press. He is president and sole proprietor of Jeffrey Bader LLC\, which provides assistance to companies with interests in Asia. \nBader received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s and doctorate in European history from Columbia University. He speaks Chinese and French. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jeffrey-a-bader-implications-of-the-election-for-policy-toward-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Jie Qiao - Impact of COVID-19 on Maternal and Child Health in China and Its Global Lessons
DESCRIPTION:A RECORDING OF THIS EVENT MAY BE FOUND AT: https://harvard.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=110ef590-303f-41dd-b32d-ac6b00e637fb \nSpeaker: Jie Qiao\, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering\, Director of Peking University Third Hospital \nDiscussants:\nMichelle Williams\, Dean\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nAna Langer\, Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Coordinator of the Dean’s Special Initiative on Women and Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nWinnie Yip\, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director\, Harvard China Health Partnership; Acting Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nWhat can we learn from China’s experience in managing maternal and child care during the COVID-19 pandemic? Join us for a discussion of recent experience\, global lessons\, and potential areas for China-U.S. collaboration. \nJie Qiao is Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering\, Director of Peking University Third Hospital. During the COVID-19 pandemic\, Dr. Qiao lead the Hubei medical aid team of Peking University which was responsible for critical and maternal care\, and as early as February 2020\, she wrote in The Lancet about the impact of COVID-19 on maternal and neonatal health (read here). Her own research focuses on the molecular mechanism of human gametogenesis and embryo development\, infertility pathology and clinical treatments\, the protection and preservation of female fertility\, as well as developing new pre-implantation diagnosis methods. She has led teams to achieve a number of technical and theoretical breakthroughs in the systematic study of human embryonic development and has made many landmark contributions to the development of reproductive medicine. \nThis event is presented by the Harvard China Health Partnership as part of the ongoing series\, China and Global Experience with COVID-19\, and is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegistration required\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oafy7vs8TRSxkeZoVmdsgA. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jie-qiao-impact-of-covid-19-on-maternal-and-child-health-in-china-and-its-global-lessons/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Featuring Judith Shapiro and Yifei Li - Authoritarian Environmentalism and Chinese Ecological Civilization
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeakers:\nJudith Shapiro\, Director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development for the School of International Service\, American University \nYifei Li\, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai\,Global Network Assistant Professor\, New York University; Residential Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society\, Munich \n  \n\n\nYifei Li is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU. In the 2020-2021 academic year\, he is also Residential Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. His research concerns both the macro-level implications of Chinese environmental governance for state-society relations\, marginalized populations\, and global ecological sustainability\, as well as the micro-level bureaucratic processes of China’s state interventions into the environmental realm. He has received research support from the United States National Science Foundation\, the University of Chicago Center in Beijing\, and the China Times Cultural Foundation\, among other extramural sources. He is coauthor (with Judith Shapiro) of China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet. His recent work appears in Current Sociology\, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research\, Environmental Sociology\, Journal of Environmental Management\, and other scholarly outlets. He received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bachelor’s from Fudan University. \nJudith Shapiro is Director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development for the School of International Service at American University and Chair of the Global Environmental Politics program. She was one of the first Americans to live in China after U.S.-China relations were normalized in 1979\, and taught English at the Hunan Teachers’ College in Changsha\, China. She has also taught at Villanova\, the University of Pennsylvania\, the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Southwest Agricultural University in Chongqing\, China. She was a visiting professor at Schwarzman College\, Tsinghua University. Professor Shapiro’s research and teaching focus on global environmental politics and policy\, the environmental politics of Asia\, and Chinese politics under Mao. She is the author\, co-author or editor of nine books\, including (with Yifei Li) China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet (Polity 2020)\, China’s Environmental Challenges (Polity 2016)\, Mao’s War against Nature (Cambridge University Press 2001)\, Son of the Revolution (with Liang Heng\, Knopf 1983)\, After the Nightmare (with Liang Heng\, Knopf 1987)\, Cold Winds\, Warm Winds: Intellectual Life in China Today (with Liang Heng\, Wesleyan University Press 1987)\, Debates on the Future of Communism (co-edited with Vladimir Tismaneanu\, Palgrave 1991)\, and\, together with her mother Joan Hatch Lennox\, Lifechanges: How Women Can Make Courageous Choices (Random House\, 1991). Dr. Shapiro earned her Ph.D. from American University’s School of International Service. She holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley and another M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois\, Urbana. Her B.A. from Princeton University is in Anthropology and East Asian Studies. \nPart of the Environment in Asia Lecture Series \nPresented Via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/judith-shapiro-and-yifei-li-authoritarian-environmentalism-and-chinese-ecological-civilization/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Eviatar Shulman - What is a Discourse (Sutta)? Reconsidering the Nature of Early Buddhist Scripture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eviatar Shulman\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem \nWe commonly speak of the Buddha’s “discourses” – sutta\, sūtra – knowing that they were not just spoken by him (or “him”) in this way\, but nevertheless taking these texts as a clear category of authorized Buddhist speech\, which scholars then ask to what degree they return to the Buddha himself; even if they are not historical utterances of the historical Buddha\, they are the closet we can get to understanding his ideas and practices. While much of scholarly practice today still hopes to skin a discourse of its mythology and popular sentiments to reveal the earlier layers of the teaching\, and while many scholars compare discourses in different languages in the quest for their original core\, it is time to see these texts for what they are – literary masterpieces\, which generate and channel rich patterns of Buddhist emotion and imagination\, and that engage with the Buddha devotionally while contemplating his figure and hoping to feel his unique presence. This talk will focus on some of the literary\, poetic\, and contemplative dimensions of the texts\, in an attempt to understand what a discourse was for the early Buddhists. Specifically\, we will investigate the idea that the texts are\, in certain cases\, a meditative practice\, so that the text is in itself the reflection upon the teaching\, rather than being some formulized representation of them. \nPresented Via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqceyrqD0pGdW8y-zm51z1273EjYQsqisj%C2%A0
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eviatar-shulman-what-is-a-discourse-sutta-reconsidering-the-nature-of-early-buddhist-scripture/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Director's Seminar: Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health in China\, India\, and the United States
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nModerator: Arthur Kleinman\, Professor of Medical Anthropology\, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine\, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Psychiatry\, Harvard Medical School; Rabb Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. \nPanelists:\nXiao Shuiyuan\, Professor\, Central South University\, Xianya School of Public Health\nYifeng Xu\, President\, Shanghai Mental Health Center; Head & Professor\, Department of Psychiatry\, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Director\, WHO/Shanghai Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health\nVikram Patel\, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow\, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine\, Harvard Medical School; Professor\, Department of Global Health and Population\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Co-Founder and Member of Managing Committee\, Sangath\nCindy Liu\, Director\, Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Laboratory\, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics\, Harvard Medical School \nHost and Commentator: Winnie Yip\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director\, Harvard China Health Partnership; Acting Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nSponsored by the Harvard China Health Partnership and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Cosponsored by the Mittal South Asia Institute. \nPart of the Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-directors-seminar-impact-of-covid-19-on-mental-health-in-china-india-and-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Director's Seminar
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Covell Meyskens - Mao's Massive Military Industrial Campaign to Defend Cold War China
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Covell Meyskens\, Assistant Professor of Chinese History\, Naval Postgraduate School \nIn 1964\, the Chinese Communist Party made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union\, a top-secret massive military-industrial complex in the mountains of inland China was built\, which the CCP hoped to keep hidden from enemy bombers. Mao named this the Third Front. The Third Front received more government investment than any other developmental initiative of the Mao era\, and yet this huge industrial war machine\, which saw the mobilization of 15 million people\, was not officially acknowledged for over a decade and a half. Drawing on a rich collection of archival documents\, memoirs\, and oral interviews\, Covell Meyskens provides the first history of the Third Front campaign. He shows how the militarization of Chinese industrialization linked millions of everyday lives to the global Cold War\, merging global geopolitics with local change. \nCovell Meyskens is Assistant Professor of Chinese history in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate School. He works on capitalist and anti-capitalist development in modern China\, especially as it relates to building big infrastructure projects. His first book\, Mao’s Third Front: Militarization of Cold War China\, published by Cambridge University Press\, examines how the Chinese Communist Party industrialized inland regions in order to protect socialist China from American and Soviet threats. His second book project\, The Three Gorges Dam: Building a Hydraulic Engine for China\, analyzes state-led efforts to transform China’s Three Gorges region into a hydraulic engine to power national development in the twentieth century. Currently\, he is in the process of developing a third project on changing conceptions of national security in modern China. Dr. Meyskens also curates a website of images of everyday life in Maoist China. Meyskens is the author of articles and book chapters on Chinese railroads\, the Three Gorges Dam\, Sino-North Korean relations\, Maoist visual culture\, globalization\, radio in Mao’s China\, and racial violence in the Pacific War. \nPart of the Modern China Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/covell-meyskens-modern-china-lecture/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201111T200000
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SUMMARY:China and the World in the Post-COVID-19 Era
DESCRIPTION:What will the impact be of COVID-19 on the global economy and how will that impact global health and the potential for global collaboration for a healthier future? Join “China and the World in a Post-COVID-19 Era” to gain perspectives on the post-pandemic outlook for trade and investment\, sustainable development\, collaborations in public health\, and mental and psychological health. With an in-person and Zoom-based audience of academics\, policymakers\, medical practitioners\, and social entrepreneurs\, the forum features keynote speakers Jeffrey D. Sachs (Columbia University) and Jeffrey Koplan (Emory University) as well as discussants from Chinese and U.S. universities\, Chinese government officials\, and social entrepreneurs. \nOpening:\n\nQizhu Tang (唐其柱)\, Vice President\, Wuhan University; Dean\, Wuhan University School of Medicine\nJuhua Xiao (肖菊华)\, Vice-Governor of Hubei Province\nHonghui Chen (陈红辉)\, Vice-Mayor of Wuhan\nXiankang Dou (窦贤康)\, President\, Wuhan University\nMark Elliott (欧立德)\, Vice-Provost for International Affairs\, Harvard University; and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Faculty of Arts and Sciences\, Harvard University\n\nSession I: Broader Implications on Global Health and Psycho-Social Impacts\n\nWinnie Yip (叶志敏)\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Interim Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nJeffrey Koplan\, Vice-President for Global Health\, Emory University; Former Director\, U.S. Centers for Disease Control\nBarry Bloom\, Joan and Jack Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health\, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases\, and Former Dean\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nRuiping Xiao (肖瑞平)\, Director\, Institute of Molecular Medicine\, Peking University; Associate Editor \, New England Journal of Medicine\nShekar Saxena\, Professor of Global Mental Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\n\nSession II: The Future Under Global Economic Integration\n\nSong Min (宋敏)\, Dean of School of Economics and Management\, Wuhan University\nJeffrey D. Sachs\, University Professor and Director\, Center for Sustainable Development\, Columbia University\nYao Yang (姚洋)\, Dean\, National School of Development at Peking University\nBert Hofman (郝福满)\, Director of the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore\, Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School\n\nClosing:\n\nWannian Liang (梁万年\, Executive Associate Dean of Tsinghua University\, Vanke School of Public Health; former Director-General of Healthcare Reform\, National Health Commission of China\nWilliam Hsiao (萧庆伦)\, Emeritus Professor of Economics\, Department of Health Policy and Management\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nDongsheng Chen (陈东升)\, Chairman of Dong Fureng Research Institute of Wuhan University; Founder\, Chairman and CEO of Taikang Insurance Group\n\nOrganized by Wuhan University (School of Medicine\, and School of Economics and Management)\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and sponsored by the Taikang Public Health and Epidemic Control Fund. \nResources:\n\nPlease see additional information in the program agenda here.\nRegistration required. Register here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-wuhan-forum-china-and-the-world-in-the-post-covid-19-era/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T110000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Language Resources
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese\, Japanese and Korean language resources.\n\nWhen: Nov 12\, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqdOyurjotGNQFReBoL3L0wpgjXm0IhIlk\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-language-resources-3/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T173000
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Director's Seminar - Myths and Realities in Sino-American Relations
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: William Overholt\, Senior Research Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolModerator: Lawrence H. Summers\, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus\, Harvard University; Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton; Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama. \nIntroduction by: Winnie Chi-Man Yip\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Department of Global Health and Population; Faculty Director\, Harvard China Health Partnership\, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Interim Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nCo-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government\, Harvard Kennedy School. \nPart of the Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-directors-seminar-americas-china-policy-a-better-path-forward/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Director's Seminar
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SUMMARY:China Town Hall: Society & Culture
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nRaymond Chang\, Major League Baseball China\nLucas Sin\, Junzi Kitchen\nJanet Yang\, Janet Yang Productions \nModerator: Alison Friedman\, Performing Arts of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority \nStarting with ping-pong diplomacy in 1971\, cultural diplomacy has played a pivotal role in facilitating mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and China. This event will gather leading cultural figures to discuss how\, despite sometimes turbulent political and economic relations\, sports\, food\, and film continue to reveal our shared humanity and connect us through culture. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://www.tfaforms.com/4855337
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-town-hall-society-culture/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T100000
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SUMMARY:Javier Cha — The Big Data Turn in the Humanities: Sailing into Uncharted Waters
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Javier Cha\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies\, College of Liberal Studies\, Seoul National University; Visiting Scholar and Digital Historian-in-Residence\, Department of History\, Lingnan University \nThe total amount of data created by 2020\, if stored in a stack of single-layer Blu-ray discs\, would reach seven times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. In 2019 alone\, content creators uploaded 30\,000 years of video to YouTube\, and Naver’s flagship data center\, Kak\, handles more information than ten thousand National Libraries of Korea combined. By 2025\, big data will triple in size\, and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this growth. To meet this demand\, China is aggressively increasing its data center capacity\, as seen in Guizhou’s recent transformation into Big Data Valley and Alibaba Cloud’s expansion in Southeast Asia. What are the implications of this ongoing big data transformation of society in the humanities? In this talk\, Javier Cha argues for the need to fundamentally rethink the humanities\, from material bibliography to data analytics and cultural studies. What do we do when our sources consist of millions of servers rather than documents? How do we handle cultural artifacts that increasingly eschew text in favor of video\, 3d point clouds\, and holograms? Questions of this nature are at the heart of Cha’s Big Data Studies Lab at Seoul National University\, which has invited librarians\, historians\, anthropologists\, and computer scientists\, among others\, to search for the new normal in the humanities together. Our current proposal is to develop big data literacy and cultural data science curricula for the next generation of humanities scholars. \nThe East Asian Digital Scholarship Series\, founded by Feng-en Tu and Sharon Yang\, has been a monthly luncheon at Harvard-Yenching Library. This year\, the Series will be conducted remotely and is sponsored by Harvard-Yenching Library with the support of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and Korea Institute. The Series will cover a wide range of topics in East Asian digital scholarship. \nThe webinar will be conducted via Zoom. Participants will be required to register at https://link.ws/eads-nov20. \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/javier-cha-the-big-data-turn-in-the-humanities-sailing-into-uncharted-waters/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:Chinese Literature Across the Borderlands
DESCRIPTION:Convened by:\nDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University\nKyle Shernuk\, Yale University\nMiya Qiong Xie\, Dartmouth University \nThis workshop aims to explore the shifting definitions of the borderland as a territorial gateway\, a geopolitical space\, a contact zone\, a liminal terrain\, and an imaginary portal. To this end\, participants will explore the intersection of ethnic\, linguistic\, cultural\, and ecological dynamics that inform the cartography of the Chinese borderland\, from the Northeast to the Southwest\, from Inner Mongolia to Tibet\, and from Nanyang to Nanmei. We will reflect on the recent\, interdisciplinary growth in understanding the characteristics of borders and frontiers\, including migration and settlement\, cultural hybridity\, and transnationalism\, as well as take issues with the boundaries of literature as it manifests itself in multiple forms of media and mediation. This workshop is organized around a forthcoming special issue of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. \nSchedule:  \n13:00-14:00: Panelist Positions Papers (3-5 min/presenter)\n14:00-14:45: Panelist Roundtable Discussion\n14:45-15:00: Q&A w/ Zoom Attendees \nPanel 1: “Bordering” National Imaginaries  \n\nMiya Xie (Dartmouth): “The Making and Unmaking of Nationalist Literature from the National Margin: Rereading Duanmu Hongliang’s The Korchin Banner Plains as Borderland Writing”\nYanshuo Zhang (Michigan): Shen Congwen’s Idealized Ethnic: Borderland\, Ethnicity\, and the Spiritual Enchantments of a Modern Master\nLevi Gibbs (Dartmouth): “The Cultural Hybridity of Chineseness: Regional Transgression in Stories of Northern Shaanxi”\n\nPanel 2: Ethnic Negotiations \n\nTuo Jianing (Sichuan University): “Sinophone Hui Literature in the Mengjiang Regime during the Second Sino-Japanese War”\nJerôme de Wit (University of Tübingen): “The Cultural Creation of the Ethnic Korean Minority in China: Focusing on the Portrayal of Local Landscape in post-1949 Korean-Chinese Literature”\nChristopher Peacock (Columbia): “Unsavory Characters: Forced Bilingualism in the Tibetan Fiction of Tsering Döndrup”\nE.K. Tan (Stony Brook University): “Conciliatory Amalgamation: The Politics of Survival in Sinophone Uyghur Writer Padi Guli’s A Hundred Years of Bloodline (2015)”\nMark Bender (Ohio State): “Treading Poetic Borders in Southwest China and Northeast India”\n\nPanel 3: Sinophone and Xenophone Articulations \n\nBrian Bernards (USC): “Sinophonic Detours and Trespasses in Colonial Burma: The Transborder Poetics of Ai Wu’s Travels in the South”\nJessica Tan (Harvard): “Unfinished Revolutions: Wei Beihua\, Chairil Anwar and the Limits of Realism of Post-war Mahua Literature”\nKyle Shernuk (Yale): “Embracing the Xenophone: Siu Kam Wen and the Possibility of Spanish-language Chinese Literature\n\n\nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nl2mg5FtTtydlP0t4pUbVg.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-literature-across-the-borderlands/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Joseph Fewsmith - The Fifth Plenum: Implications for the Future
DESCRIPTION:https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-fifth-plenum-implications-for-the-future-with-joseph-fewsmith \nRead the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor of International Relations and Political Science\, Boston University Pardee School of International Relations and Political Science. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-joseph-fewsmith/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - East Asia Responds to U.S. Election Results
DESCRIPTION:Presenters:\nToshihiro Nakayama\, Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy\, Faculty of Policy Management\, Keio University; Adjunct Fellow\, Japan Institute of International Affairs\nShin-wha Lee\, Professor\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, Korea University\nWu Xinbo\, Dean\, Institute of International Studies; Director\, Center for American Studies; Fudan University\nDiscussant: Ezra Vogel\, Honorary Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nModerator: Christina Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcuuvqT0rHtU4M2pcRaMBZj73P1WwZXCh
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-east-asia-responds-to-u-s-election-results/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201119T160000
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SUMMARY:Economy Lecture Series featuring Kristen Looney - Rural Development in China and East Asia
DESCRIPTION:https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/rural-development-in-china-and-east-asia-with-kristen-looney \n\nRead the transcript of the event here.\n\nSpeaker: Kristen Looney\, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government\, Georgetown University\n\nModerator/Discussant: Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School\n\nThis talk tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia’s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s–1970s)\, South Korea (1950s–1970s)\, and China (1980s–2000s)\, Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of development outcomes—improvements in agricultural production\, rural living standards\, and the village environment—were realized to different degrees\, at different times\, and in different ways. She argues that rural modernization campaigns\, defined as policies demanding high levels of mobilization to effect dramatic change\, played a central role in the region and that divergent development outcomes can be attributed to the interplay between campaigns and institutions. The analysis departs from common portrayals of the developmental state as wholly technocratic and demonstrates that rural development was not just a byproduct of industrialization. Looney’s research is based on several years of fieldwork in Asia and makes a unique contribution by systematically comparing China’s development experience with other countries. Relevant to political science\, economic history\, rural sociology\, and Asian Studies\, the research enriches our understanding of state-led development and agrarian change. \nKristen Looney is an assistant professor of Asian Studies and Government at Georgetown University\, where she teaches courses on Chinese and Comparative Politics. Her research is on rural development and governance and has previously appeared in The China Quarterly\, The China Journal\, and Current History. She is the author of Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia (Cornell U. Press 2020). She holds a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. \nPart of the Economy Lecture Series \nPresented Via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kristen-looney-rural-development-in-china-and-east-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:Tao Leigh Goffe - "My Mother Told Me I am Chinese": Afro-Asian Aesthetics in the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tao Leigh Goffe\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Feminist\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, Cornell University \nIn this talk\, Professor Tao Leigh Goffe will discuss the aesthetic challenge ‘Chinese’ poses as a racial category in the Caribbean. The introduction of Chinese as a category of labor to the West Indian plantation (Jamaica\, Trinidad\, Cuba) is a history she traces from 1803 to the present through the institution of “racial indenture” as a replacement from enslaved African labor\, chiefly on sugar plantations. Identifying common aesthetic strands of Chinese cosmology in artwork by people of Chinese descent with roots in the Caribbean\, Goffe asks questions about the Chinese haunting of the Caribbean plantation. \nMade possible by the generous support of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations \nPresented via Zoom\nJoin at: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93136279659?pwd=VUo2cVBHRUE0ZnppM0hlUE56YWNtQT09
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tao-leigh-goffe-my-mother-told-me-i-am-chinese-afro-asian-aesthetics-in-the-caribbean/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Lecture Series - Infectious Diseases and Public Health Management in China: From Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/infectious-diseases-and-public-health-management-in-china?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank \nRead the transcript of the event here. \nSpeakers:\nNicole Elizabeth Barnes\, Duke University\nMary Augusta Brazelton\, The University of Cambridge\nMiriam Gross\, The University of Oklahoma\nElanah Uretsky\, Brandeis University \nModerator: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nNicole Elizabeth Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Gender\, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China\, 1937-1945\, an open access e-book published by the University of California Press in 2018 that received the 2019 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Association and the 2020 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. She researches history of medicine\, women\, and gender in twentieth-century China. \nMary Augusta Brazelton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Cambridge. Her book Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Cornell University Press\, 2019) examines the history of mass immunization in twentieth-century China. It suggests that the origins of the vaccination policies that eradicated smallpox and controlled other infectious diseases in the 1950s\, providing an important basis for the emergence of Chinese health policy as a model for global health\, can be traced to research and development in southwest China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. She has also published work on the history of penicillin development and tuberculosis control in China\, as well as the history of Peking Union Medical College\, and is the 2019 recipient of the Zhu Kezhen Senior Award from the International Society for the History of East Asian Science\, Technology\, and Medicine. Her research interests lie broadly in historical intersections of science\, technology\, and medicine in China and around the world.  At Cambridge\, she is an affiliated lecturer in East Asian Studies in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and a member of the World History Subject Group in the Faculty of History\, as well as a Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute. She received her PhD at Yale and has taught at Tufts University. \nMiriam Gross is an Associate Professor in the Departments’ of History and of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma\, Norman.  She received her Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University in 2002\, and her Ph.D. in Modern Chinese history from the University of California\, San Diego in 2010\, under the direction of Professors’ Joseph Esherick and Paul Pickowicz.  Her first book\, Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao’s Campaign to Deworm China\, was published by the University of California Press in 2016.  Her research focuses on the popularization\, politicization\, and contestation of science and medicine in the countryside in modern China as well as China’s medical diplomacy abroad.  Currently she is writing a book on COVID-19 that explores its roots in China and analyzes comparative global management and control strategies. \nElanah Uretsky is an Associate Professor of International and Global Studies at Brandeis University where she teaches courses on global health\, China and East Asia\, and human rights.  Trained as a medical anthropologist of China\, Professor Uretsky has twenty years of experience conducting research on the impact of gender\, sexuality\, and governance on HIV/AIDS and chronic disease in China. Her first book\, Occupational Hazards: Sex\, Business and HIV/AIDS in Post-Mao China\, discusses the impact that China’s culture of male networking practices has had on the development\, trajectory\, and administration of China’s HIV epidemic. Professor Uretsky has also examined China’s increasing involvement in the global health field and has conducted research on the health of African migrants living in the city of Guangzhou.  Prior to teaching at Brandeis\, Professor Uretsky taught in the Department of Global Health at George Washington University. Professor Uretsky holds a PhD in sociomedical science from Columbia University and did postdoctoral training at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in AIDS at Yale University. \nPart of the Environment in Asia Lecture Series \nPresented Via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/infectious-diseases-and-public-health-management-in-china-from-historical-and-anthropological-perspectives/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \n \n  \nThe East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour is an experimental and casual community-building event. It aims to provide a platform for scholars\, graduate students\, in particular\, to share their ideas\, skills\, big and small projects\, and learn from each other. \nExamples of presentation topics include but are not limited to the following: \n\nYour use cases of datasets\, databases\, tools\, and software with East Asian foci;\nA digital tool or workflow you built;\nAn on-going digital project that need suggestions and comments;\nA potential collaboration that needs more hands on deck.\n\nThe event is sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-digital-scholarship-community-hour/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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SUMMARY:Xingyi Wang - Boundary of the Body: The Monastic Robe and Revival of the Vinaya in Medieval China and Japan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xingyi Wang\, PhD Candidate\, Harvard University \nModern scholarship often compares Buddhist monastic rules to legal codes or treats them mainly as nominal prescriptions. The reality\, however\, was more complex than what appeared on paper. I propose a new understanding of the Vinaya which sees it as vital device and site for the formation of a religious self\, in tandem with the habitual cultivation of the human body in everyday monastic living. Given that the body of a monastic is almost always clothed\, the apparently disproportionately large number of rules in the Vinaya about monastic robes should not be surprising. This talk focuses on the practice of robing monastics in the Vinaya revival in Song China and Kamakura Japan. The formative power of the Vinaya on the individual body and on the collective community hinges on the mediacy of the robe. By tracing the trajectory of the commentarial tradition and material culture of the Vinaya from Song China to Kamakura Japan\, I show how Buddhists negotiated the tension between fidelity to the Vinaya and their localized ephemeral social reality. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtfuyupzwtGN1AU-KhH1IScyoXKjlLHD-r
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xingyi-wang-boundary-of-the-body-the-monastic-robe-and-revival-of-the-vinaya-in-medieval-china-and-japan/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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SUMMARY:Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala - Uyghur Poetry in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opportunity to hear from Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala\, two of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur today. The event will feature opening remarks by Mark Elliott\, Harvard’s Vice Provost of International Affairs\, followed by presentations from both poets. We will also have the opportunity to hear from Dr Gülnar Eziz\, Harvard Preceptor in Uyghur and Chaghatay and Dr. Joshua Freeman of Princeton’s Society of Fellows\, on their translation work. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Harvard Hillel\, Uyghur Academy-USA\, the Human Rights Working Group\, and the Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom. \nOpen to the public.\nRegistration is required.\nRegister here: https://guestlist.co/events/666291 \nProceeds from the event will fund books and supplies for Uyghur Academy-USA and the Boston Uyghur School.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tahir-hamut-izgil-and-rana-yashar-aybala-uyghur-poetry-in-translation/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Cheng Yu-yu - Revolution in the Nation of Poetry: Physical and Linguistic Perspectives since 1919  (詩國革命的「漢語」脈絡)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cheng Yu-yu\, National Taiwan University \nThis talk will be given in Mandarin. \nOnce Chinese poetry becomes “modern poetry\,” its so-called modernity must be discussed in the context of the modernity of “Chinese language” itself. From the late Qing and early Republican periods on\, when confronted with the invasion of such things as new lexicon\, new academic disciplines\, alphabetic languages\, and English grammar\, the Chinese language\, Chinese characters\, and the cultural tradition to which it belongs have never ceased responding to and reflecting upon such foreign forces. In examining this “modernizing” process of Chinese poetry\, which progressed from the question of “how to speak to the new world” to that of “how to reestablish a new relationship with the world\,” one cannot overlook the new ways of thinking of the Chinese language that emerged from and were constructed by various disciplines\, including grammatology\, philology\, phonology\, psychology\, and rhetoric studies. And in discussing “modern poetry\,” one should not disregard how figures such as Ma Jianzhong\, Liu Shipei\, Huang Ren\, Huang Kan\, Tang Yue\, Hu Pu’an\, Chen Wangdao\, and Li Anzhai\, as well as Chen Shih-Hsiang and Kao Yu-kung\, have consciously sought the basis upon which the Chinese language and Chinese characters depend for their existence and adaption to change. What lie at the very core of this basis are the “speakability” and the “manifestability” of the Chinese language. These concepts were engaged in a tug-of-war with the tumultuous modern vision prevalent since the late Qing\, exhibiting a well-matched rivalry that cannot be ignored. \n當漢語詩成為「『現代』詩」，這所謂「現代質地」（modernity）還是必須回到「漢語」的現代性來討論。晚清民初以來，面對新語詞、新學科、拼音文字、英語文法這些如同外來侵襲的事物，漢語、漢字及其所在的文化系統，從未停止回應與思考；從「如何向新世界開口發聲」到「如何重建與世界的新關係」，漢語詩「現代化」的進程裡，不應該忽視當時由語法學、文字學、音韻學、心理學、修辭學等不同領域出發而建構的漢語新思維，討論「現代詩」不應該忽略如馬建忠、劉師培、黃人、黃侃、唐鉞、胡樸安、陳望道、李安宅，以至於陳世驤或高友工等人，是如何自覺的去發現漢語、漢字所以存有與應變的依據，而其中允為核心的是漢語的「可發聲性」與「可體現性」，正與晚清以來高張喧騰的現代視線相互拉鋸，呈現不可輕忽的抗衡態勢。 \nProfessor Yu-yu Cheng\, Academician of Academia Sinica\, the Chair Professor of Chinese literature at National Taiwan University\, is devoted to developing pioneering and interdisciplinary interpretations of Chinese classical literature by combining the Eastern and Western humanistic thoughts. She enjoys an international reputation for her contribution to the discourses of space\, body\, and Chinese lyrical tradition. Cheng has published numerous books\, including “Literary Ch’i” in Six Dynasties Literary Theory\, The Situation Aesthetics in Six Dynasties\, Gender and Nation: Discourses of Encountering Sorrow in Han and Jin Rhapsodies\, The Poet in Text and Landscape: Mutual Definition of Self and Landscape\, Metaphor: Crossing Categorical Boundaries in Ancient Chinese Literature\, and Gesture and Language: A New Approach to the Revolution of a Poetic Tradition\, etc. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-GtqDosHtFLLK39YRE6hU_gP7MyM9sX
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/cheng-yu-yu-tradition-and-modernity-in-the-revolution-of-the-poetry-nation/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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