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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Jeremy Brown and Louisa Lim - Reassessing June Fourth: New Approaches and Sources on the Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Jeremy Brown\, Professor\, Department of History\, Simon Fraser UniversityLouisa Lim\, Journalist and Lecturer\, University of Melbourne \nPart of the Modern China lecture series \n \n \n  \nHow significant were the events of June 1989 in the broader span of recent Chinese history?  How does the aftermath of the Beijing massacre help to explain events since then\, including what is happening in Hong Kong today?  How deep is the state-imposed amnesia about Tiananmen?  What is the future of June Fourth Studies?  Join authors Jeremy Brown and Louisa Lim for a discussion about these and other questions. \nJeremy Brown is Professor of History at Simon Fraser University.  He is the author of June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989 and City Versus Countryside in Mao’s China: Negotiating the Divide. \nDr. Louisa Lim is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne and the author of The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited\, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.  She was a correspondent for NPR and BBC based in China for a decade.  Her new book Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong will be published in April 2022. \nImage courtesy: Holly Angell \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-jeremy-brown-in-conversation-with-louisa-lim/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T080000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - Happy Together
DESCRIPTION:Director: Wong Kar Wai \nOne of the most searing romances of the 1990s\, Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw\, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung as a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they break up\, make up\, and fall apart again and again. Setting out to depict the dynamics of a queer relationship with empathy and complexity on the cusp of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong—when the country’s LGBT community suddenly faced an uncertain future—Wong crafts a feverish look at the life cycle of a love affair that’s by turns devastating and deliriously romantic. Shot by ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle in both luminous monochrome and luscious saturated color\, Happy Together is an intoxicating exploration of displacement and desire that swoons with the ache and exhilaration of love at its heart-tearing extremes. —Janus Films \nHarvard IDs and masks required. Harvard affiliates can RSVP at hfastudentscreenings.eventive.org. Limited seating capacity. Questions related to this program or interest in joining the student curatorial group can be directed to Alex Vasile.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-happy-together/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T133000
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SUMMARY:Modern Chinese Humanities Seminar featuring Laurence Coderre - The Future Is Now: On Newborn Socialist Things
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Laurence Coderre\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies\, New York University \n \n \nRead the transcript of the event here. \nWhereas the contemporary era in China is often depicted in terms of rampant\, ideologically vacuous commodification\, the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) is typically cast as a time of ubiquitous politics and scarce goods. Indeed\, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong\, the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void out of which the postsocialist world of commodity consumption miraculously sprang fully formed. I instead argue that the Cultural Revolution media environment and the ways in which its constituent elements engaged contemporaneous discourses of materiality and political economy anticipated the widespread commodification now so closely associated with the Reform Period (1978-present). \nTo that end\, this talk offers a brief history of the “newborn socialist thing” (shehuizhuyi xinsheng shiwu)\, which\, as a technical term originating in the 1950s\, refers to a harbinger of a progressive future emerging in the present. Not only did newborn things\, always at odds with “old things\,” help define socialism as a transitional stage of development prior to communism\, they also promised to integrate the material and the social under one conceptual roof. I develop a historical methodology inspired by the relational nature of the newborn thing\, which traces fugitive constellations of objects\, bodies\, institutions\, and social formations pertaining to the Cultural Revolution’s media environment. Of particular interest are the forms of mediation enacted by and through these constellations and the dialectic they were often said to create with the commodity-form. \nLaurence Coderre is an assistant professor of East Asian Studies at New York University. She received her PhD in Chinese from UC Berkeley in 2015. Prior to moving to NYU\, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan. Coderre’s work focuses on Chinese socialist and postsocialist cultural production. She is the author of Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China (Duke\, 2021)\, which examines the material culture of the Cultural Revolution. Her research has appeared in Comparative Studies of Society and History\, Journal of Material Culture\, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture\, and Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, as well as numerous edited volumes. She is currently embarking on a new project on theory and the everyday in the late Mao era. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/laurence-coderre-the-future-is-now-on-newborn-socialist-things/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210921T134500
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Zhang Meng - Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Meng\, Assistant Professor of History\, Vanderbilt University \nPart of the Environment in Asia lecture series \n \n \nIn the Qing period\, China’s population tripled\, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation. The reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down\, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources. Timber and Forestry traces the expansion of an interregional trade network to cover the entire basin of the Yangzi River. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? Delving into rare archives to reconstruct property rights systems and business histories\, the book considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. This case from China has important implications for world-historical conversations on resource management\, commercialization\, and sustainable development. \nMeng Zhang (張萌) is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She received her B.A. in economics from Peking University (2010) and Ph.D. in history from UCLA (2017). Zhang is a historian of late imperial China\, with particular interests in economic and environmental transformations and transnational dynamics in the rise of global capitalism. Her first book\, Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (University of Washington Press\, 2021)\, reveals the complex reality of timber trade and resource management during the flurry of commercial development in Qing China. She is working on a second project that follows the social life of edible bird’s nests through the transnational construction of knowledge\, desire\, trade\, and credit across early modern China and Southeast Asia. \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-lecture-series-featuring-zhang-meng/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210927T120000
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SUMMARY:Investment Screening and Supply Chain Security: Japanese\, EU\, and U.S. Perspectives on China
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nSarah Bauerle-Danzman\, Assistant Professor\, Department of International Studies\, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies\, Indiana University Bloomington\nSophie Meunier Aitsahalia\, Senior Research Scholar\, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Co-Director\, European Union Program at Princeton\, Princeton University\nKristin Vekasi\, Academic Associate\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science and School of Policy & International Affairs\, University of Maine \nModerator: Christina L. Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nFor more information\, please visit: https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/panel-9-27-21 \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcOiuqTIrHtGDut-qpTKogX-dwA9OLZXC
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/investment-screening-and-supply-chain-security-japanese-eu-and-u-s-perspectives-on-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T103000
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SUMMARY:Yangyang Cheng - Those Who Fall Behind Get Beaten Up: Can Science Build a Strong China?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yangyang Cheng\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Yale Law School; Columnist at SupChina. \nFrom the last Chinese empire to the current People’s Republic\, generations of politicians and intellectuals have sought advanced science and technology to build a strong China. They pondered the relationship between East and West\, tradition and modernity\, national allegiance and cosmopolitan ideals. Their efforts have shaped the path of China’s development and mapped the contours of Chinese identity. \nIn this talk\, I will trace their accomplishments and regrets\, as well as lessons for today\, through the lives of two men from my hometown of Hefei\, born a century apart. One was late Qing’s most revered statesman. The other is one of the first two Nobel laureates from China. As the role of science and technology becomes one of the most contentious issues in U.S.-China relations\, their stories teach about the forces that propelled China’s rise\, the ways lives can be squeezed by geopolitics\, and the risks of using science for state power. \nYangyang Cheng is a particle physicist and essayist. Her writings have appeared in The New York Times\, MIT Technology Review\, and ChinaFile\, among other publications. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Law School and a columnist at SupChina.| \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/those-who-fallbehind-get-beaten-up-can-science-build-a-strong-china-1454 \nPart of the Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yangyang-cheng-those-who-fall-behind-get-beaten-up-can-science-build-a-strong-china/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T134500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Bonnie Glaser - How Great is the Risk of War Over Taiwan?
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nThere is an intense debate among experts over the likelihood of a near-term Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Senior US military officers have warned that a PRC military action could take place in the next six years. Such dire predictions are largely based on estimates of PLA capabilities. But even if China can seize and control Taiwan\, will it do so? Assessing the potential for such an attack also requires an understanding of Xi Jinping’s strategy toward Taiwan and his risk/benefit calculus. The policies of the United States and Taiwan\, and how they are viewed in Beijing\, also need to be taken into account. \nSpeaker: Bonnie Glaser\, Director\, Asia Program\, German Marshall Fund of the United States \n\n\nBonnie S. Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Glaser is concomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney\, Australia\, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. For more than three decades\, Ms. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. \n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-bonnie-glaser/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T104500
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SUMMARY:The Taliban Takeover and Central Asian Security: What Will Russia and China Do?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nAndrey Kortunov\, Director General\, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)\nYun Sun\, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program\, Stimson Center\nZuhra Halimova\, Independent Consultant\, Dushanbe\, Tajikistan\nAkram Umarov\, Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh; Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow\, University of World Economy and Diplomacy \nModerators:\nNargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nEdward Lemon\, President & CEO\, The Oxus Society \nThe withdrawal of U.S. forces and the speedy collapse of the Afghan government are creating a new security situation and transforming the geopolitical setting of Central Asia. Fears and concerns in the region are on the rise. What will Russia\, the traditional security provider\, and China\, the emerging provider\, do? How will they deal with these new challenges and opportunities? What are the choices facing Central Asian states\, and how much room for maneuver do they have? This roundtable will discuss the current policies of Russia\, China and Central Asian states\, and possible scenarios for future developments and their implications for the region and Eurasia at large. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mv_PAcweTuG1C7kYtYQxsQ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-taliban-takeover-and-central-asian-security-what-will-russia-and-china-do/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T180000
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Panel Discussion - Transnational Aging in the Chinese Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n \nPanel Participants:Sara L. Friedman\, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies\, Indiana UniversityRussell King\, Professor of Geography\, University of SussexSarah Lamb\, Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology\, Brandeis UniversityAndrea Louie\, Professor of Anthropology\, Michigan State UniversityNicole Newendorp\, Associate Director and Lecturer\, Social Studies\, Harvard UniversityKen Chih-Yan Sun\, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology\, Villanova University \nNearly 4.3 million immigrants in the United States are age sixty-five and over. Research predicts that the number of nonwhite elderly immigrants will continue to grow\, doubling to 36 percent of the senior population by 2050. Although the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the lives of older migrants\, the familial and social networks in which they are embedded remain in place and can translate into important protective resources. At the same time\, Chinese societies – e.g.\, mainland China\, Taiwan\, and Hong Kong – have experienced rapid and large-scale social and cultural transformation over the past few decades\, resulting in complex feelings and competing perspectives by older migrants on their homeland(s). In this workshop\, six scholars in the fields of migration\, aging\, and Chinese studies grapple with the new frontier of studies on migration and life transition by focusing on two recent ethnographies about transnational aging in the Chinese diaspora. One highlights Chinese immigrants who relocate to the US at a later life stage; the other examines long-term Taiwanese immigrants who spent decades navigating life in American society and transnationally. Through our conversation\, we seek to collaboratively rethink major issues and the understudied dimensions of aging and migration. \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-panel-discussion-transnational-aging-in-the-chinese-diaspora/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies,Special Event
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