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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Yuri Pines - The Great Unity (da yitong 大一統) Ideal: The Key to China's Imperial Longevity?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yuri Pines\, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem \nOne of the most notable features of imperial China is the exceptional durability of the imperial political system. Having been formed in the aftermath of Qin 秦 unification (221 BCE)\, this system lasted intact for 2132 years\, until the abdication of the child emperor Puyi 溥儀 on February 12\, 1912. For sure\, the empire was not indestructible —to the contrary\, it underwent manifold crises\, including longer or shorter periods of political disintegration. Yet\, remarkably\, the unified empire was repeatedly resurrected at the very least in “China proper” (roughly comparable to the territory under the control of the founding Qin dynasty). Such repeated resurrections of a huge territorial entity spanning more than twenty centuries are not attested to elsewhere in world history.In my talk I want to argue that the key to understanding the reasons for the imperial resurrections lies within the realm of ideology and the dominant political culture. The idea that peace and stability in “All-under-Heaven” is attainable only in a unitary state ruled by a single omnipotent monarch was formed in the centuries preceding the Qin unification\, at the apex of political fragmentation of the Warring States period (Zhanguo 戰國\, 453-221 BCE). Having become the common desideratum of the competing “Hundred Schools of Thought\,” the ideal of “Great Unity” remained fundamental to Chinese political culture for millennia to come. By denying legitimacy to any but unifying regimes\, this ideal facilitated common quest for reunification during the periods of fragmentation. The notion that “Stability is in Unity” became China’s foremost self-fulfilling prophecy.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-yuri-pines/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Lecture Series featuring Victor Seow — How to Write a History of Energy in Modern East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victor Seow\, Assistant Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard UniversityModerator/discussant: Ling Zhang\, Boston College \nIn this session\, Victor Seow\, Assistant Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard University\, will be introducing his recently published book\, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 2022). Centered on the history of what was once largest coal mine in East Asia\, this book explores how modern states became embroiled in projects of intensive energy extraction and\, in so doing\, offers insights into the origins and challenges of our unfolding climate crisis. Victor will be joined by the Fairbank Center’s “Environment in Asia” series convenor Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor of History\, Boston College\, and the two will discuss the meanings and methods of writing a history of energy of China and East Asia\, from primary sources to narrative strategies. \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-lecture-series-featuring-victor-seow-how-to-write-a-history-of-energy-in-modern-east-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220406T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220406T140000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Joseph Nye - US-China Strategy and the Lessons of History
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Joseph S. Nye\, Jr.\, University Distinguished Service Professor\, Emeritus and former Dean\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \n\n\n\nModerator: William Overholt\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nJoseph Nye received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Princeton University\, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University\, and earned a PhD in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs\, Chair of the National Intelligence Council\, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance\, Science and Technology. His most recent books include The Power to Lead; The Future of Power; Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era; and Is the American Century Over. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the British Academy\, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars\, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy\, and in 2011\, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global  Thinkers. \n\n\n\nAlso streaming on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-joseph-nye-us-china-strategy-and-the-lessons-of-history/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T120000
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SUMMARY:Roselyn Hsueh - Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China\, India\, and Russia
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Roselyn Hsueh\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Temple University \nHsueh will discuss how her book’s Strategic Value Framework shows that the perceived strategic value orientation of state elites rooted in significant phases of internal and external pressures shape dominant patterns of market governance\, which vary by country and sector within country. Specifically\, Hsueh’s research demonstrates techno-security developmentalism in China has shaped bifurcated capitalism\, which governs dual-use capital- and knowledge-intensive versus labor-intensive industries. In India\, neoliberal self-reliance has determined the bifurcated liberalism\, which grounds transnationally networked high-tech versus rural\, small-scale sectors. A bifurcated oligarchy governs defense and resource-oriented versus labor-intensive sectors in Russia shaped by resource security nationalism. \nAsh Center Director Tony Saich will moderate. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/8116415902412/WN_fzVkW01gRZS2iw01RSUJcw \n\n \nMore information: https://ash.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-micro-institutional-foundations-capitalism-sectoral-pathways-globalization-china
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/roselyn-hsueh-micro-institutional-foundations-of-capitalism-sectoral-pathways-to-globalization-in-china-india-and-russia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T170000
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SUMMARY:Nitasha Kaul - 'Inbetween' India and China: Bhutan's International Relations
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Speaker: Nitasha Kaul\, University of WestminsterModerator: Arunabh Ghosh\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe antagonistic relationship between India and China is marked by a high mutual threat perception\, frequent hostilities along their shared border across the Himalayas and a demonstrable ineffectiveness of big power diplomacy in bringing about conciliatory understandings in spite of increasing volumes of trade between them. As a small Himalayan state\, contemporary Bhutan is geopolitically mapped through an exhaustive and southward oriented “inbetweenness” (“inbetween India and China”) that is taken to be natural but in fact has shifted over the centuries. In this lecture\, I first put forward a subaltern geopolitical perspective to first trace a longer imperial and post-colonial history of this inbetweenness and its effect on knowledge-making about smaller states. I then present the indigenous aspects of this small state’s foreign policy\, suggesting that Bhutan’s foreign policy trajectory is important in both descriptive and analytical terms to better grasp the Indian and Chinese interests as they are negotiated by the Bhutanese\, as opposed to accounts where Bhutan is constructed as a passive placeholder of great power politics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/nitasha-kaul-inbetween-india-and-china-bhutans-international-relations/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T220000
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SUMMARY:From Tangut to Taiwan: A Dialogue with Lo Yi-chin on Diaspora and Identity Politics in Fiction 從西夏到台灣：駱以軍談離散文學與認同政治
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Lo Yi-chin 駱以軍\, Writer and winner of Dream of the Red Chamber Fiction PrizeMingwei Song 宋明煒\, Wellesley CollegeModerator: David Der-wei Wang 王德威\, Harvard UniversityThis roundtable will be in Mandarin. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-tangut-to-taiwan-a-dialogue-with-lo-yi-chin-on-diaspora-and-identity-politics-in-fiction-%e5%be%9e%e8%a5%bf%e5%a4%8f%e5%88%b0%e5%8f%b0%e7%81%a3%ef%bc%9a%e9%a7%b1%e4%bb%a5%e8%bb%8d%e8%ab%87/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T120000
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SUMMARY:Governing in an Interconnected World: Has the EU Joined China to shut out American Companies?
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Mark Scott\, Chief Technology Correspondent\, Politico (via Zoom)Tom Wheeler\, former Chairman\, Federal Communications Commission \n\n\n\nWhile the US government dawdled\, the EU’s new Digital Markets Act has set new rules for internet services. What does this mean for American companies? What does this mean for the future of multilateral relations? \n\n\n\nLunch will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/governing-in-an-interconnected-world-has-the-eu-joined-china-to-shut-out-american-companies/
LOCATION:Wex-434ab Conference Room\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 JFK St.\, Camrbidge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T123000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Christopher Carothers - When Autocrats Clean House: Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign and Its Consequences
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christopher Carothers\, Post-doctoral Fellow\, Center for the Study of Contemporary China\, University of PennsylvaniaModerator: Nara Dillon\, Senior Lecturer on Government\, Harvard University \nCorruption is rampant in many authoritarian regimes\, leading to the widespread perception that autocrats have little incentive or ability to curb government wrongdoing. Yet meaningful anti-corruption efforts by nondemocratic governments are more common and more often successful than is widely assumed. In this talk\, Carothers draws on extensive documentary research to argue that Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign in China\, despite its limitations\, has been effective at curbing bribery\, embezzlement\, and other illicit practices since 2012. Moreover\, although corruption control is often thought to rely on democratic or quasi-democratic institutions constraining power\, Xi’s campaign has succeeded through a top-down\, authoritarian approach. The outcomes of this signature Xi policy\, Carothers explains\, hold broader implications for our thinking about China’s future direction. This talk is based on Carothers’ book Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons From East Asia\, which is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2022. \nChristopher Carothers is a political scientist conducting research on authoritarian politics with a regional focus on China and East Asia. He is the author of Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from East Asia\, which is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2022. His research has also been published in Perspectives on Politics\, the Journal of Democracy\, the Journal of East Asian Studies\, the Journal of Contemporary China\, Politics and Society\, Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, and other leading publications. Dr. Carothers received his PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2019 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China. \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-christopher-carothers/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T203000
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SUMMARY:Moses on the Plain: Shuang Xuetao and New Dongbei Literature
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:双雪涛 Shuang Xuetao\, Writer程异 Jeremy Tiang\, Translator张学昕 Zhang Xuexin\, Critic罗鹏 Carlos Rojas\, Scholar\, Translator陶建 Eric Abrahamsen\, TranslatorBrian Lax\, Editor \n\n\n\nOrganizers:王德威 David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University宋伟杰 Weijie Song\, Rutgers University \n\n\n\nThis event will be conducted in Mandarin and English. \n\n\n\nCo-Sponsors:哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心 Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies罗格斯大学亚洲语言文化系 Rutgers University\, Asian Languages and Cultures罗格斯大学中国研究中心 Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies北京当代艺术基金会 Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation蒋经国基金会 Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\nSubscribe to the Events Newsletter\nBe the first to know about upcoming events.  \n\n\n\n\nsign up\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moses-on-the-plain-shuang-xuetao-and-new-dongbei-literature/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T170000
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Rachel Stern - Performing Legality: When and Why Chinese Government Leaders Show Up in Court
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rachel E. Stern\, Professor of Law and Political Science\, Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies\, UC Berkeley School of Law \nRachel E. Stern is a Professor of Law and Political Science and currently holds the Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies. Her research looks at law in Mainland China and Hong Kong\, especially the relationship between legal institution building\, political space\, and professionalization. Stern is the author of Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence (Cambridge University Press 2013)\, as well as numerous articles on legal mobilization and lawyers in contemporary China. \nStern is currently part of a collaborative effort to analyze the 60+ million Chinese judicial decisions placed online following a 2014 policy change. This massive expansion in the public record of court activity promises to re-shape our understanding of Chinese law and\, beyond China\, of authoritarian legality. \nBefore joining Berkeley Law and the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program\, Stern was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows. She also currently serves as series editor for the Law and Society series at Cambridge University Press. \nCheck back soon for more information! \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5e0-d6BhQB-yksuqE0UrAg
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/contemporary-chinese-society-lecture-series-featuring-rachel-stern/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Contemporary Chinese Society
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220418T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220418T103000
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SUMMARY:India’s Evolving Partnerships with Africa and the China Factor
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists: W. Gyude Moore\, Senior Policy Fellow\, Center for Global Development; Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School for Public Policy; Former Minister of Public Works\, LiberiaHannah Ryder\, CEO\, Development Reimagined; Senior Associate\, Africa Program of the Center for Strategic International Studies \n\n\n\nAnthea Mulakala\, Senior Director for International Development Cooperation\, The Asia Foundation \n\n\n\nPhilani Mthembu\, Executive Director at the Institute for Global Dialogue \n\n\n\nVeda Vaidyanathan\, Associate\, Harvard University Asia Center; Visiting Associate Fellow\, Institute of Chinese Studies\, New Delhi \n\n\n\nIndia’s contemporary relationships with countries in Africa are being reimagined at a time when China’s multi-dimensional engagement with the region has deepened significantly. There is a need to examine these developments from diverse\, cross-sectoral perspectives and go beyond the linear narratives. This panel discussion will span from markets to geopolitics\, synthesizing them within the comparative India-China framework. Speakers on the panel will draw from their rich experience of advising African governments\, Chinese and African investors to provide specific takeaways on African market dynamics and possible socio-political and economic futures of value to Indian policymakers\, businesses\, and researchers. Additionally\, they will contrast the engagement of both Asian countries in Africa\, discussing the strategic\, technological\, and cultural drivers\, highlighting the strengths and fault lines in the relationships. The panelists will also explore India’s evolving place in the foreign policy formulations of African countries and look at the expanse of the emerging opportunities for building sustainable partnerships.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/indias-evolving-partnerships-with-africa-and-the-china-factor/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220418T120000
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SUMMARY:Adam P. Liff - The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Adam P. Liff\, Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations\, Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies; Director\, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative\, Indiana University. \n\n\n\nModerator: Mary C. Brinton\, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Director\, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/adam-p-liff-the-u-s-japan-alliance-and-taiwan/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220418T183000
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Julia Cross - Relic Transfers and Statue-Reliquaries in Medieval Japan 
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Julia Cross\, Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies\, Yale University \n\n\n\nPrior to the medieval period\, Buddha relics (Sk. śarīra; dhātu) in Japan were typically under the domain of the court or court-related temples. In the Kamakura era (1185–1333)\, this shifted\, however\, as relic worship became increasingly accessible to temples and shrines outside of court circles. As social anxieties magnified that the Buddha’s teachings were slowly slipping away (i.e.\, mappō)\, the desire to be close to his relics increased. These relics\, seen as “essential ingredients” of the Buddha\, facilitated a physical proximity to his body. Accordingly\, Buddha relics\, remainders found in the Buddha’s funeral pyre\, were gifted\, swallowed\, stolen\, and transferred through dream-like-visions. It was through this physical proximity—almost osmosis—to the Buddha’s body (i.e.\, his bones) that devotees moved closer to the Buddha and to their own spiritual salvation in the afterworld. \n\n\n\nAlong with this revival of relic worship came the revival of the nunhood\, which had lost much of its power by the late Heian period (794–1185). This paper shows that Kamakura era nuns used relics\, seen as direct access to the Buddha\, to argue for their right to practice. It contends that nuns used such relics to re-establish their monastic power and spread their teachings. By examining historical records\, origin narratives\, and material culture this paper argues that nuns utilized relics to create Dharma networks and strengthen their monastic ties. Many of these relics can be traced back to China and India\, and\, ultimately\, to the Buddha himself. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/buddhist-studies-forum-featuring-julia-cross-relic-transfers-and-statue-reliquaries-in-medieval-japan/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Ronald Egan - Su Shi Beyond Poetry: The Invention of a New Kind of Informal Prose
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ronald Egan\, Stanford University \nSu Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101) is remembered first as a poet in various forms (shi 詩\, ci 詞\, and fu 賦) and only then as a prose stylist. Even among his prose writings Su Shi is remembered primarily\, to judge from modern selections of his works\, for his output in the traditional literary prose genres (ji 記“record\,” xu 序 “preface\,” lun 論 “essay\,” etc.). Almost completely overlooked in this hierarchy of forms is his achievement in the less prestigious prose genres\, such as the informal letter (chidu 尺牘)\, colophon (tiba 題跋)\, accounts of outings (youxing 游行)\, and miscellaneous records (zaji 雜記). This talk looks at his writing in these forms\, calling attention to its striking quantity\, the porousness of genre distinctions within it\, and Su’s innovative use of this writing for kinds of expression that would not go easily into poetry. Also broached is the chronology of Su’s turn to these “lesser” forms and its connection to his periods of exile.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-ronald-egan-su-shi-beyond-poetry-the-invention-of-a-new-kind-of-informal-prose/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Jaewoong Jeon - Sugar and Commodity Form: Manifestations in Colonial Taiwan and Korea
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jaewoong Jeon\, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global History\, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nModerator: Steven Goldstein\, Sophia Smith Professor of Government\, Emeritus\, Smith College; Fairbank Center Associate \n\n\n\nThis talk will not be recorded for future viewing.  \n\n\n\nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Korea Institute\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-workshop-featuring-jaewoong-jeon-sugar-and-commodity-form-manifestations-in-colonial-taiwan-and-korea/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T130000
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SUMMARY:Gender Studies Workshop: Gender\, Family\, and Law
DESCRIPTION:Digital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Bettine Birge\, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Southern CaliforniaYing Zhang\, Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies\, The Ohio State UniversityMara Yue Du\, Assistant Professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow\, Cornell UniveristyXiaoping Cong\, Professor of History\, University of HoustonModerator:Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard UniversityOrganizers:Man Xu\, Associate Professor of History\, Tufts UniversityWai-yee Li\, 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard UniversityCatherine Vance Yeh\, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, Boston UniversityEileen Chow\, Associate Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies\, Duke University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstracts: \n\n\n\nConflict and Accommodation: Confucian family values and legal practice under the Mongol-Yuan (1260-1368)Bettine Birge\, University of Southern California \n\n\n\nFeminist history has long established that gender relations are inherently unstable\, always contested\, and constantly changing. By contrast\, the purported basis of the traditional Chinese legal system\, from at least the Tang on\, was a system of ethical relations and gender privilege\, which its Confucian architects claimed was natural and unchanging\, in accord with the constant Way of Heaven. Challenges to and changes in the gender system happened in every period of Chinese history\, but during the Mongol-Yuan dynasty\, these were particularly salient.  \n\n\n\n            The Mongol conquest and occupation of China presented a major challenge to Confucian ideas of gender relations and moreover created a system of legal pluralism that was incompatible with Confucian ideas of law based on timeless values. Despite the exhortations of Chinese advisors and several attempts\, no Yuan emperor ever issued a formal law code. This left local judges without clear laws to follow\, which resulted in various forms of accommodation\, often at odds with traditional legal codes and Confucian dictates of gender hierarchy.  \n\n\n\n            In my paper\, I will look at judicial practice under the Mongols to investigate how this fundamental dilemma played itself out in different settings. I will explore the varied ramifications of this process as seen in the adjudication of disputes over issues such as prenuptial contracts\, uxorilocal marriage\, and personal autonomy. We find that amidst considerable instability and ferment\, new ideas and accommodations emerged\, and new forms of gender privilege were established\, some of which endured past the Yuan dynasty.   \n\n\n\nTaking Women Seriously\, Taking Legal History SeriouslyYing Zhang\, Ohio State University \n\n\n\nThis paper examines the public actions taken by women in response to the imprisonment of officials in the Ming Dynasty. I argue that studying officials’ jail time accurately\, as part of the regular investigative procedure rather than merely a form of political punishment\, sheds new light on the legal agency of women in Ming officials’ households. Women’s legal agency\, in turn\, reveals some interesting pattern in the practice of Ming administrative law. “Taking women seriously” allows us to read traditional moral-political narratives as important legal history sources. With a few case studies\, I also raise questions about the conventional understanding of “private women” in elite households. \n\n\n\nRelational Power and the Logic of Inter-Personal Relations in Late Imperial Chinese LawMara Yue Du\, Cornell Univeristy \n\n\n\nThis article provides a theoretical reflection on the logic through which ritually defined family relationships dictated legal regulation of people’s behavior in late imperial China. When discussing the intertwining of family and traditional Chinese law\, existing scholarship mainly focuses on a person’s status in the kinship as defined by differential legal treatment of people of different genders and generations. This study instead highlights how the bond one actor had\, or did not have\, relative to another determined the allocation of responsibility and power between them\, the nature and cause of actions\, as well as punishment of offenses in any given circumstance. The relative relational power between two parties involved in a legal case was legally more important than a person’s status in his/her household. This article starts from a discussion of the distinction between unbreachable relationships established through blood ties and conditional relationships established through marriage or adoption. It then moves on to a comparison of three principles that defined Chinese family hierarchies—generation\, age\, and gender—with the former two prioritized over the third one except in marital/sexual relationships. The complex legal assessment of senior women’s agency and criminal liability is then explored\, enabling us to revisit such concepts as women’s “trice following” of men and to revise theoretical frameworks on Chinese family history which was fixated on women’s relative status to men.  \n\n\n\nLaw and Women’s Liberation in Revolutionary ChinaXiaoping Cong\, University of Houston \n\n\n\nThis paper investigates a critical aspect in the Chinese revolution which is the role of law and legal practice in the realization of women’s liberation. The author demonstrates how the revolutionary legislature concretized the idea of women’s liberation and women’s rights in both law terms and legal practice. The paper focuses on the marriage reform in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region where in the 1940s the revolutionary government and legislatures not only actively pushed the promulgation of the Marriage Regulations\, but also sought an effective solution for improving women’s lives and position in family and society. In the legal practice\, the court established “self-determined marriage” as new principle for marriage reform. Based on this principle the court granted women individual legal personalhood and recognized a woman’s choice in legal adjudication. This practice subverted a long-term tradition in China which saw marriage as a family practice rather than an individual’s matter. Through revision of legal terms\, the court further restrained patriarchal power\, which was defined “the third party” in marriage and had no right to intervene women’s marriage. It was this revolutionary practice that helped a woman to distinct her interest from that of her parents and her family\, thus gradually liberated women from the domination of patriarchal family. Furthermore\, the judges also developed a series of special investigation strategy and court technics that helped women to express their wills and secured their rights in self-determined marriage. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gender-studies-workshop-gender-family-and-law/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia series featuring Michael J. Hathaway - What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake Mushrooms and the Worlds They Make
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael J. Hathaway\, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the David Lam Center for Asian Studies\, Simon Fraser University \nThis talk introduces the second book in an academic trilogy that began with Anna L. Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World. In this talk\, Michael J. Hathaway draws from his forthcoming book. He delves into the worlds of fungi\, showing us how they literally enabled our green planet and carry out active forms of liveliness in the everyday\, acting as “world-makers.” Moving from fungi as an enigmatic kingdom that transformed the ancient Earth to the realm of the fascinating matsutake mushroom on the Tibetan Plateau\, Hathaway reveals the ways these mushrooms are creating their own multispecies encounters\, with and without humans. This forthcoming book challenges a legacy of human exceptionalism and human supremacy that is dominant in Western thinking and offers ways to notice the creative liveliness of all organisms\, from mammals to mushrooms. \nMichael J. Hathaway is a professor of anthropology and director of the David Lam Center for Asian Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver\, Canada. He is part of the Matsutake Worlds Research Group\, which has been exploring the global trade in these valuable wild mushrooms\, from the US\, Canada\, Scandinavia\, and China to its centre in Japan. Together\, they examine the entanglements of capitalism\, science\, and the formation of new networks that link stitch together diverse humans\, matsutake mushrooms\,  and a number of other organisms in complex webs of life. \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-michael-j-hathaway-what-a-mushroom-lives-for-matsutake-mushrooms-and-the-worlds-they-make/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Victor Seow - Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Victor Seow\, Assistant Professor of the History of Science\, Harvard UniversityCommentator: Paul Sabin\, Yale University \n\n\n\nCarbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia is a study of the deep links between energy extraction and technocratic politics through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine. In delving into the origins of fossil-fueled development in China and Japan\, this book unearths both the dominant role of the state in energy transitions toward coal and oil and the enduring reliance on human labor power in the carbon age. \n\n\n\nThe Center for History and Economics invites you to mark the publication of Victor Seow’s new book by attending this discussion with the author. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/victor-seow-carbon-technocracy-energy-regimes-in-modern-east-asia-2/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T113000
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Studies Forum featuring Halvor Eifring - Let the mind wander towards the Pure Land: Two 19th-Century Chinese Monks on How to Treat Spontaneous Thought
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Halvor Eifring\, University of Oslo \n\n\n\nMind wandering has been an issue within contemplative traditions for more than two thousand years. How to go about your meditation or prayer when spontaneous thoughts constantly pull your mind in other directions? This talk will focus on the answers of two 19th-century Chinese Pure Land Buddhist monks\, Wukai (悟開\, d. 1830) and Gukun (古崑\, c. 1828–1892). Both display seemingly paradoxical attitudes towards mind wandering\, combining the urge to drive it away with the wish to accept it. They do so\, however\, for different reasons\, which will be presented and discussed in the talk. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/buddhist-studies-forum-featuring-halvor-eifring-let-the-mind-wander-towards-the-pure-land-two-19th-century-chinese-monks-on-how-to-treat-spontaneous-thought/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T210000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - The Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo: Historical Reflections
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Wayne Chiang 蔣萬安\, Member of Legislative Yuan\, TaiwanHsiao-ting Lin\, Stanford UniversitySteven Goldstein\, Sophia Smith Professor of Government\, Emeritus\, Smith College; Fairbank Center AssociateModerator:Michael Szonyi\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-the-diaries-of-chiang-kai-shek-and-chiang-ching-kuo-historical-reflections/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T131500
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - How Will the War in Ukraine Impact China’s Engagement in Eastern Europe?
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Jinghan Zeng\, Professor of China and International Studies\, Lancaster University; Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute \n\n\n\nUna Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova\, Head\, China Studies Centre\, Riga Stradins University; Head\, Asia Program\, Latvian Institute of International Affairs \n\n\n\nJeremy Garlick\, Director\, J. Masaryk Centre of International Studies; Associate Professor of International Relations and China Studies\, Prague University of Economics and Business \n\n\n\nArseny Sivitsky\, Co-Founder and Director\, Minsk-based Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies \n\n\n\nModerators:Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies \n\n\n\nJames Evans. Communications Officer\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nOver the past three decades\, China has become a major trade partner and investor for Belarus\, Moldova\, and Ukraine. The region is also an important component of the BRI New Eurasian Land Bridge\, providing alternative access to Western Europe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is shaking up China’s plans and prospects in this part of Eurasia. With the closing of borders between Russia and the EU\, China’s long-term interests are arguably at risk. The war is also resulting in geopolitical shifts and hardening divisions between the West on the one hand\, and China and Russia on the other. This panel discusses China’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the impact that today’s dramatic developments will have on China’s presence in Eastern Europe and its BRI plans. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-how-will-the-war-in-ukraine-impact-chinas-engagement-in-eastern-europe/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T090000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Bert Hofman - A Broad Assessment of the Growth Outlook for China—Will it Meet Xi Jinping’s Goals\, Will China Overtake the US? How Will China Seek to Achieve this?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bert Hofman\, Director\, East Asian Institute; Professor in Practice\, Lee Kuan Yew School\, National University Singapore \n\n\n\nCommentator: Yasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management; Professor\, Global Economics and Management\, MIT \n\n\n\nModerator: Winnie Chi-Man Yip\, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Department of Global Health and Population\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \n\n\n\n***NOTE EARLIER START TIME***Bert Hofman\, a Dutch national\, is the director of the East Asian Institute at NUS and Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School. Before joining NUS\, he has been working with the World Bank for 27 years\, 22 of which in Asia\, and 12 of which on China. Mr Hofman was the World Bank Country Director for China 2014-2019\, the country economist 2004-2008\, and the Chief Economist for the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific region 2011-2014. He also worked on Indonesia\, the Philippines\, Korea and Mongolia. Before coming to the World Bank\, Mr Hofman worked at the Kiel Institute of World Economics\, The OECD and NMB Bank (Now ING). Mr Hofman has extensive experience in advising governments around the region on a wide range of development issues\, and he has published on fiscal policy\, debt issues\, and China’s and Indonesia’s recent economic history.Also streaming on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-bert-hofman/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Liu Wenjin - Voice and Salvation: Listening to Ba Jin’s Random Thoughts (《随想录》）
DESCRIPTION:Topics:\n\n\nDigital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Liu Wenjin\, Professor\, Department of Chinese Language and Literature\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2021-2022Chair/Discussants: David Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard UniversityJie Li\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor Of The Humanities\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nBa Jin (1904-2005)\, who called himself “the son of the May 4th movement\,” is a giant of 20th-century Chinese literature whose writing inspired a generation of youth to join the communist movement. Written in his later years\, Random Thoughts is one of the earliest and most influential memoirs of China’s Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976. His memoir testified to the double sides of the remarkable “confession” promoted by the party-state during this God-making movement. This talk examines the meaning of voice in this text from the perspective of the phenomenon of voice in Chinese literary culture in the 20th century. \n\n\n\nBy considering Random Thoughts as testimonial literature\, this talk presents Ba Jin’s strategy and ethics of witnessing the silent moral “grey zone” under totalitarianism by recovering his own voice. It explores what “telling the truth” – the keywords in Random Thoughts – means and the relationship between this truth-telling and his personal beliefs and his salvation in hard times that “has no god.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-wenjin-voice-and-salvation-listening-to-ba-jins-random-thoughts-%e3%80%8a%e9%9a%8f%e6%83%b3%e5%bd%95%e3%80%8b%ef%bc%89/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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