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SUMMARY:Youth Political Mobilization & Socialization in Contemporary China: The Centenary of the Communist Youth League
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the official establishment of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团\, CYL)\, one of the largest youth political organizations in the world. As the Chinese Communist Party’s assistant and reserve force\, the CYL is the Party’s main channel to socialize youth in the official political discourse and practices\, and mobilize them to support the current system. Despite the importance of the organization\, English-language academic work on its history\, politics and multifaceted role in contemporary China remains sporadic.The CYL’s centenary offers an opportunity to bring together scholars from different disciplines to discuss their research and insights on Chinese youth political socialization and mobilization\, with particular attention to the League and connected youth organizations. The Ash Center\, working with Dr. Jérôme Doyon (University of Edinburgh)\, Dr. Sofia Graziani (University of Trento) and Dr. Konstantinos Tsimonis (King’s College London)\, is pleased to organize an online seminar\, taking place on September 8th and 9th\, examining emerging scholarship related to communist youth organizations in China.  \n\n\n\nEvent Schedule Thursday\, September 8th • Introduction: 8:20-8:30 AM by Tony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School • Panel 1: The Mobilization of Youth during the Chinese Communist Party’s Early Years: 8:30-10:30 AM  • Panel 2: The Socialization and Co-optation of Young Chinese: 11:00 AM-1:00 PMFriday\, September 9th  • Panel 3: Youth Organizations and State-Society Relations: 8:30-10:30 AM • Panel 4: Youth Narratives and Propaganda: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM • Concluding Remarks: 1:00-1:15 PM with Stanley Rosen\, Professor of Political Science from the University of Southern CaliforniaDay 2 registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0YAGp8NPRjyltJQPKgD1TQ\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/youth-political-mobilization-socialization-in-contemporary-china-the-centenary-of-the-communist-youth-league/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Christine Wong - Local Finance Under Siege: Unpacking the Paralysis of Fiscal Policy on the Eve of the 20th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Christine Wong\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nLocal finances are under stress.  In the first seven months of 2022 tax revenues were down 14%\, and land revenues 32%\, yet payroll and other expenditures have to be met\, including the Covid-related bills for mass testing and other containment measures.  Since 2021 social media has been flooded with posts reporting steep pay cuts for civil servants even in rich coastal regions.  National aggregate data show social spending trending downward in GDP-shares.  This seminar looks at the crisis in local finance that has accelerated through the pandemic\, with local governments increasingly underfunded and tied down by contradictory policies.  I will argue that local fiscal problems caused the government to under-deliver on its announced fiscal stimulus programs in both 2020 and 2021\, a scenario on-track to be repeated in 2022 despite the massive injection of special project bonds.  \n\n\n\nChristine Wong is currently Visiting Research Professor at the East Asia Institute\, National University of Singapore.  She has previously taught at the Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University\, the University of Melbourne\, Oxford\, University of Washington\, University of California at Santa Cruz and Berkeley\, and at Mount Holyoke College.  She has also held senior positions at the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Christine has published widely on China’s public finance and rural development.  Her recent publications include “Reforming public finance for the new era” (CPC Futures)\, “Why China’s 2022 fiscal stimulus will fall short” (EAI Commentary No. 53)\, “China’s 2022 budget and the fate of local government finance” (EAI Background Brief No. 1644)\, and “Plus ça Change: Three Decades of Fiscal Policy and Central–Local Relations in China” (China – an International Journal). \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. for supporting this event.  Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/christine-local-finance-under-siege-unpacking-the-paralysis-of-fiscal-policy-on-the-eve-of-the-20th-party-congress/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T173000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India\, from Antiquity to the Present
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Tarun Khanna\, Jorge Paolo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School; Faculty Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nMichael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAjantha Subramanian\, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies; Chair of the Anthropology Department\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nModerator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; William Fung Director of the Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWhat can India and China\, the world’s most populous countries\, teach us about meritocracy? In Making Meritocracy\, Professors Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi have gathered over a dozen experts from a range of disciplines to discuss how these two societies have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically\, philosophically\, and in practice. India and China have considered how to identify and promote merit for centuries\, and their attempts at developing meritocracies in the past\, present\, and future holds lessons for each other\, and for the rest of the world. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-making-meritocracy-lessons-from-china-and-india-from-antiquity-to-the-present/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T163000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Fiona Cunningham - China’s Search for Coercive Leverage in the Information Age: Past\, Present\, Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fiona Cunningham\, University of Pennsylvania \n\n\n\nFiona Cunningham is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Perry World House and affiliated with the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Christopher H.. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests lie the intersection of technology and conflict\, with an empirical focus on China. Fiona’s current book project explains how and why China threatens to use space weapons\, cyber attacks and conventional missiles as substitutes for nuclear threats in limited wars. Her research has been published in International Security\, Security Studies\, The Texas National Security Review\, and The Washington Quarterly\, and has been featured in the New York Times and the Economist. Fiona’s work has been supported by the Stanton Foundation\, Smith Richardson Foundation\, and the China Confucius Studies Program. She has held fellowships at the Renmin University of China in Beijing\, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University\, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University\, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Fiona received her Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT in 2018. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney\, both with first class honors. From 2019 to 2021\, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-and-foreign-policy-workshop-featuring-fiona-cunningham/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T170000
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SUMMARY:Victor Fan - The Insight-Image: Illuminating the Reality of Deleuze's Time-Image
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victor Fan\, King’s College London \n\n\n\n     In Zen Buddhism\, the notion of here and now is the key to attain––or return to––paññā/prajñā (insight). On a day-to-day basis\, we live each moment with a preoccupation of the past and an anticipation for the future. Our retrospection and expectation produce afflictions such as avarice\, anger and frustration\, as well as delusion. Our penchant for living every moment as a recollection of the past and an anticipation for the future is also propelled by our belief that our existence endures in time; that such afflictions and suffering are both inevitable; and that our self and all the other sentient beings and objects arise out of their self-natures. But as Nāgārjuna (150–250 CE) argues\, the past does not exist\, as its existence has already perished; the future does not exist\, as its existence has yet to arise. If the present is an extension of the past\, and if it extends itself to become the future\, the present does not exist either. Rather\, it is a lived point-instant that instantiates an assemblage of interdependent conditions. But how does the cinema\, as an image-consciousness\, disconceal insight? \n\n\n\n     In Cinema Illuminating Reality [2022]\,I conduct a comparative reading of here and now with Gilles Deleuze’s reading of Henri Bergson’s notion of time. I do so in order to reconfigure Deleuze’s notion of the time-image into the insight-image. For Deleuze\, the time-image is characterized as a pure optical and sound situation\, which draws the consciousness’s attention to the present of the present as a sense-formation and a thought-formation. In other words\, Deleuze’s time-image is capable of generating a mindfulness of the here and now: that each moment is an instantiation of an ecology of interdependent conditions that affect\, and are affected by\, one another. In my presentation\, I will demonstrate how insight can be attained or returned to via the formational process of the image-consciousness. I will also conduct a close reading of Pema Tseden’s Tharlo [2015] to examine how mindfulness is mobilized as a technology that gives the consciousness an agency over its own becoming. \n\n\n\n     Victor Fan is Reader in Film and Media Philosophy\, King’s College London and a film festival consultant. He is the author of Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory (University of Minnesota Press\, 2015)\, Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media (Edinburg University Press\, 2019)\, and Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy through Buddhism (University of Minnesota Press\, 2022).His articles appeared in journals including Camera Obscura\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Screen\, and Film History. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/victor-fan-the-insight-image-illuminating-the-reality-of-deleuzes-time-image/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Thompson Room\, 12 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T160000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar - Writing and Reading “Local Court Drama” in Late Imperial China: Texts\, Genres\, and Identities 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅: Shaw Professor of Chinese\, University of Oxford \n\n\n\nRecent reprint projects have given researchers much improved access to the vast corpus of Chinese court dramatic texts kept in palace archives and private collections\, which in turn presents a challenge: how do we unpack the complex textual web and varied forms contained therein? I am interested in ways of reading court drama in connection with the wider textual and cultural worlds. This talk will focus on a body of texts that I call “local court drama” – playtexts that were presented to the emperor from across various regions\, produced on occasions ranging from the celebration of imperial birthdays to welcoming the sovereign on tours. We will look at the textual problems and the generic labels applied\, literary models invoked\, and identities represented in the process.  \n\n\n\nTian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅 is the Shaw Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of University College. His main areas of research include Chinese literary history and historiography\, text and performance\, and cross-cultural literary interactions. He is currently working on “Linking the Textual Worlds of Chinese Court Theater\, ca. 1600-1800” (TEXTCOURT)\, a research project funded by the European Research Council.   \n\n\n\nThis event takes place in person and via Zoom. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-writing-and-reading-local-court-drama-in-late-imperial-china-texts-genres-and-identities/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan - "Keep Moving\, Little Bees!": Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China
DESCRIPTION:Join zoom meeting\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yang Zhan\, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology\, The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityDevelopers in China’s real estate industry organize temporary workers\, or “little bees\,” to promote sales. Most developers rely on high-interest loans\, and must repay their creditors as quick as possible to keep the chain of funding intact\, reduce risk\, and secure profits. Thus\, little bees are pushed to sell quicker\, rather than to sell more units. Due to this hyper-financialization\, time on the market becomes a key management target. The little bees aim to convert random encounters on the street into meaningful business relationships. This conversion is facilitated by maps\, numbers and speculative culture. Moreover\, the demands on sales time are exploitative because in the Chinese real estate market there is a discrepancy between agency and responsibility: Even though little bees’ daily movements are beyond their control\, they shoulder immense responsibility\, suffer from physical and psychological stress\, and are fired at little cost to management. Analyzing this entanglement with time and financialization provides critical insight into urban precariousness in China. \n\n\n\nYang Zhan is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She was selected a research fellow of China India Institute at New School for Social Research in 2021. Zhan’s research interests include infrastructure of development\, urbanization and migration\, mobility and temporality\, voluntarism and anthropological theory.  Zhan is the winner of 2020 Eduard B. Vermeer Prize for the Best Article and was shortlisted for Holland Prize in 2022. Zhan’s articles have appeared in Urban Studies\, Cities\, Positions\, Dialectical Anthropology\, Urban Anthropology\, Anthropological Forum\, China Information\, Pacific Affairs\, among others. Zhan is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Brutal Temporary: Venturing Migrants and the Politics of Future on China’s Urban Fringe. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. for supporting this event.  Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-yang-zhan-keep-moving-little-bees-real-estate-promotion-and-the-financial-roots-of-urban-precariousness-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T160000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Yajun Mo - Touring China: A History of Travel Culture\, 1912–1949
DESCRIPTION:Register For Hybrid Zoom session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yajun Mo\, Boston CollegeWhen and under what circumstances did modern tourism infrastructure emerge and expand in China? How did the development of tourism shape print media and travel culture? This talk\, based on Yajun Mo’s recently published book\, Touring China: A History of Travel Culture\, 1912-1949\, explores these questions by tracing the roots of China’s domestic tourism to the first half of the twentieth century. More than simply introducing new practices and values associated with leisure mobility to the urban middle class\, tourism and travel culture in the Republican period\, Mo argues\, enabled Chinese citizens to imagine an inherent unity to their country despite its territorial fragmentation. \n\n\n\nProfessor Mo teaches courses on modern China and women’s and gender history. Her research focus on China’s production of its national image. She is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled From Shanghai to Shangri-La: Zhuang Xueben and China’s Ethnographic Frontier. It focuses on the life and work of Shanghai photographer Zhuang Xueben\, whose explorations and photography of the Sino-Tibetan frontiers in the 1930s and 1940s provide one of the broadest and most striking visual records of the region and its diverse peoples. This project won a Henry Luce Foundation/ ACLS Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship. Professor Mo’s first book\, Touring China: A History of Travel Culture\, 1912-1949\, explores how early twentieth century Chinese sightseers described the destinations that they visited\, and how their travel accounts gave Chinese readers a means to imagine their vast country. Drawing on an extensive range of sources\, this book de-Westernizes the history of tourism in China. In addition to original research\, Professor Mo has also been active in academic translation and has translated academic writings in both directions—from English to Chinese and from Chinese to English—forging connections with academic communities in both Anglophone and Sinophone worlds. \n\n\n\nThis talk will also be available on Zoom. To register\, visit https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-7dfmQhnR_ywX9BK2rkN-Q \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-yajun-mo/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Screenings - The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang
DESCRIPTION:Rare and valuable is the filmmaker who expands one’s conception of the cinematic art; rarer still is the filmmaker who enlarges one’s notion of the term “director.” Malaysian-born\, Taiwan-based auteur Tsai Ming-liang (b. 1957) accomplished the former with his rigorous\, uncompromising and reputation-defining features of the nineties and early 2000s\, and ever since his self-declared retirement from narrative filmmaking after 2013’s Stray Dogs\, he has been anything but inactive while exploring the endless permutations of what it means to be an image maker in the 21st century. Among the many formally adventurous international filmmakers who have struck out for greener pastures in the past decade upon finding the commercial prospects of arthouse cinema distribution increasingly deficient\, Tsai has dabbled in the gallery space\, the black box theater\, virtual reality and the independently run exhibition space as venues to both showcase his uncategorizable work and influence how he produces it. Along the way\, he has transformed his very approach to capturing filmic material\, and where once a pithy precis for his films existed—Antonioni-esque studies of alienated Taiwanese youth\, for instance—there is no longer such a firm summary for exactly what a Tsai Ming-liang project looks like or how it operates.Tsai Ming-Liang and his collaborators will appear in person at film screenings on October 10 and 14.For more information on this series\, including a complete listing of showtimes and information on purchasing tickets\, visit https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/the-face-of-time-recent-films-by-tsai-ming-liang.  \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Film Archive and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screenings-the-face-of-time-recent-films-by-tsai-ming-liang/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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