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SUMMARY:Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Ethan Michelson - Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ethan Michelson\, Professor of Sociology\, Professor and Chair\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Indiana University-Bloomington; Professor of Law\, IU Maurer School of Law \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/contemporary-chinese-society-lecture-series-featuring-ethan-michelson-decoupling-gender-injustice-in-chinas-divorce-courts/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Contemporary Chinese Society
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring William Alan Reinsch - China as Best Customer and Biggest Threat – Trade Policy in the Biden Era
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: William Alan Reinsch\, Senior Adviser and Scholl Chair in International Business\, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Moderator: William Overholt\, Senior Research Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School \nWilliam Reinsch holds the Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and is a senior adviser at Kelley\, Drye & Warren LLP. Previously\, he served for 15 years as president of the National Foreign Trade Council\, where he led efforts in favor of open markets\, in support of the Export-Import Bank and Overseas Private Investment Corporation\, against unilateral sanctions\, and in support of sound international tax policy\, among many issues. From 2001 to 2016\, he concurrently served as a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy\, teaching courses in globalization\, trade policy\, and politics. \nReinsch also served as the under secretary of commerce for export administration during the Clinton administration. Prior to that\, he spent 20 years on Capitol Hill\, most of them as senior legislative assistant to the late Senator John Heinz (R-PA) and subsequently to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV). He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies respectively. \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-william-alan-reinsch/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220207T100000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Brian Lander - The Ecology of China’s Early Political Systems
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Brian Lander\, Assistant Professor of History\, Brown UniversityDiscussant: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Boston College \nBy encouraging us to rethink familiar historical processes through an ecological lens\, the field of environmental history provides new insights into the past. Lander’s book The King’s Harvest uses such an ecological perspective to examine the formation of political organizations in early China. Early political systems literally ran on solar energy stored in the grain that common farmer paid in tax\, so we should think of them as organizations dedicated to mobilizing photosynthetic energy. Early states devoted much of that energy to assembling large groups of men to fight with other groups of armed men\, but they also used it to expand farmland\, build infrastructure\, and increase the human population in the interests of increasing their tax income. This paper will use these insights to explore the history of the state and empire of Qin (c. 800-207 BCE). Qin established the centralized bureaucratic empire which became the standard model of political organization in China\, bequeathing subsequent empires with administrative skills that helped them thoroughly transform East Asia’s environments. \nBrian Lander studies the environmental history and archaeology of early China. He is an assistant professor of history at Brown University and a fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. He teaches history and environmental studies. \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-brian-lander-the-ecology-of-chinas-early-political-systems/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T120000
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SUMMARY:China’s Role in the World: Is China Exporting Authoritarianism?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nElizabeth Economy\, Senior Fellow\, Hoover Institution\, Stanford University\nSheena Chestnut Greitens\, Associate Professor\, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs\, University of Texas at Austin\nNaima Green-Riley\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Government\, Harvard University\nMaria Repnikova\, Assistant Professor in Global Communication\, Department of Communication\, Georgia State University \nChair: Alastair Iain Johnston\, The Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs\, Department of Government\, Harvard University \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7sSQgf7qS7in8ta-L_IJFg \n\n \nThis event is hosted by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs\, co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center’s Critical Issues Confronting China Series. \n\n \nThis event will not be recorded for delayed viewing.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinas-role-in-the-world-is-china-exporting-authoritarianism/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T120000
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SUMMARY:Yuen Yuen Ang - Does Corruption Really Disappear as Countries Grow Richer?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yuen Yuen Ang\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\nDiscussant: Patrick O. Okigbo\, founder of Nextier and M-RCBG senior fellow \nThis webinar is part of M-RCBG’s weekly Business & Government Series. Yuen Yuen Ang is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption (2020). In 2021\,she was named by Apolitical among the Top 100 Most Influential Academics in Government. She is also the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholar from the American Political Science Association for “impactful contributions to comparative politics.” \nHosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School\nThis event is being co-hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o7m6hgkMRp-vG5WcVOmuVQ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yuen-yuen-ang-does-corruption-really-disappear-as-countries-grow-richer/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220216T123000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Guobin Yang - Listening to the Wuhan Lockdown
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Guobin Yang\, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology\, Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology\, University of PennsylvaniaModerator/discussant: Nara Dillon\, Senior Lecturer on Government\, Harvard University \nThe sealing off of Wuhan from January 23 to April 8\, 2020 was an extraordinary historical event in modern world history. Recently published by Columbia University Press\, Guobin Yang’s The Wuhan Lockdown recounts this history by presenting a galaxy of scenes and characters. This talk introduces the main features of the book and then zooms in on one theme – that of voice. The lockdown of the city was a period of life marked by both loud voices of shouting and yelling and by quiet voices of reflection and rumination. What did residents in Wuhan try to say in their loud or quiet ways? Who heard their voices? Who listened? \nGuobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he directs the Center on Digital Culture and Society and serves as deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the author of The Wuhan Lockdown (2022)\, The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China (2016)\, and The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009). He is also the editor or co-editor of six books\, including Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms\, Publics and Production (2021). \nPresented via Zoom \nAlso streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-guobin-yang-listening-to-the-wuhan-lockdown/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T131500
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CREATED:20220118T174653Z
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SUMMARY:Nirupama Rao - The Fractured Himalaya
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nirupama Rao\, Former Foreign Secretary of India and Ambassador to the United States and China\nChair: Sugata Bose\, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs \nPart of the Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series \nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute \nPresented via Zoom webinar.\n Register here: https://tinyurl.com/4pv9m7zk. 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nirupama-rao-the-fractured-himalaya/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220221T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220221T173000
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Keng Ching - Towards a New Interpretation of Dignāga's Mental Perception (mānasa-pratyakṣa): Clues from the Notion of Simultaneous Mental Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/buddhist-studies-forum-featuring-keng-ching-towards-a-new-interpretation-of-dignagas-mental-perception-manasa-pratyak%e1%b9%a3a-clues-from-the-notion-of-simultaneous-mental-consciousness/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T190000
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CREATED:20220131T144142Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Yuhang Li - Engineering Religious Bliss at the Qing Court: Jile shijie in the Beihai Park
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yuhang Li\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\n \nIn 1770\, with the purpose of presenting an unusual surprising gift to his mother Empress Dowager Chongqing (1692-1777) for her eightieth birthday\, Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) ordered the imperial architectural department to construct a Buddhist compound named jile shijie or blissful land on the northern shore of imperial Beihai Park next to the Forbidden City. Inside of the main hall\, instead of conventional Buddhist icons staged on the lotus pedestals\, an innovative three-dimensional clay mountain site scenery adorned with various deities from the Pure Land occupies the interior space. Jile shijie\, a synonym for the Western Paradise and Pure Land\, has been consistently visualized and contemplated since early medieval China. But the jile shijie built for Empress Dowager Chongqing is a standalone case which creates the experience of religious joy through a site scenery. The Pure Land is usually experienced as a future connected to death\, which one literally cannot experience as present.  However\, Qianlong’s filial gift allows his mother to feel the required affect in this world\, by juxtaposing transcendence and immanence.  The absolute future of the Pure Land\, a future that one experiences only after one has no more future on earth\, becomes present at least in part\, in a man-made small-scale western paradise. In this paper\, I will discuss the surviving architecture\, sculptural mountain preserved in old photographs\, imperial documents on the design process\, and Qianlong’s own writings on the given subject. Through unpacking the layers of this site\, I will demonstrate how a liminal temporality of religious joy is materialized.\n\nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItceysrD4pHNV5JMpAvPFyIiRrTG8AWRxb
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-yuhang-li-engineering-religious-bliss-at-the-qing-court-jile-shijie-in-the-beihai-park/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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