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China Humanities Seminar – Writing and Reading “Local Court Drama” in Late Imperial China: Texts, Genres, and Identities
China Humanities Seminar – Writing and Reading “Local Court Drama” in Late Imperial China: Texts, Genres, and Identities
Speaker: Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅: Shaw Professor of Chinese, University of Oxford; Professorial Fellow, University College
Recent 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.
Tian 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-cultura
Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan – “Keep Moving, Little Bees!”: Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China
Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan – “Keep Moving, Little Bees!”: Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China
Speaker: 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 […]
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Yajun Mo – Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Yajun Mo – Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949
Speaker: 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? […]
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Film Screenings – The Face of Time: Recent Films by Tsai Ming-Liang
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 […]
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Jae-Jung Suh – Diatribes and Dialogues over the Past: “History Problems” and Regional Orders in Northeast Asia
Jae-Jung Suh – Diatribes and Dialogues over the Past: “History Problems” and Regional Orders in Northeast Asia
Speaker: Jae-Jung Suh, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, International Christian University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Chair/Discussant: Paul Y. Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University In this talk, […]
East Asian Legal Studies Open House
East Asian Legal Studies Open House
Take advantage of this opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2022-2023 Visiting Scholars.Remarks begin at 12:45pm.Food will be provided. Venue
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yanzhong Huang – Is Zero Covid Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda?
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yanzhong Huang – Is Zero Covid Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda?
Read our blog post on the event: Is ‘Zero-COVID’ Crippling Xi Jinping’s Domestic Agenda? Five Unintended Consequences Speaker: Yanzhong Huang, Professor and Director, Center for Global Health Studies, Seton Hall University China’s zero-Covid policy, while shielding the country from Covid-19 and facilitating state control over society, also has compounded, even undermined its ability to cope […]
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Ya-wen Lei – The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China
Ya-wen Lei – The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China
Speaker: Ya-wen Lei, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Using Daniel Bell’s work as a springboard, I analyze the emergent post-industrial society in China, focusing on China’s techno-development from the mid-2000s to the present day. Noting the extraordinary transformation of China’s economy and society during this time, some scholars have compared China’s post-reform period […]
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Film Screening and Discussion – Afternoon (Na ri xia wu)
Film Screening and Discussion – Afternoon (Na ri xia wu)
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang.Taiwan, 2015, DCP, color, 137 min.Mandarin with English subtitles. In-person discussion with the director follows the film screening. As if created to refute the notion that artists are […]
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Modern China Lecture featuring Philip Thai – Communist China’s Capitalist Front: The China Resources Company in Cold War Hong Kong
Modern China Lecture featuring Philip Thai – Communist China’s Capitalist Front: The China Resources Company in Cold War Hong Kong
Speaker: Philip Thai, Northeastern University The China Resources Company is a Hong Kong-based, Chinese state-owned conglomerate with diverse businesses interests in real estate, retail, pharmaceuticals, energy, and other industries. Today, […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring John K. Culver: How China’s Catastrophic Success, US Strategic Blunders Fueled Rivalry
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring John K. Culver: How China’s Catastrophic Success, US Strategic Blunders Fueled Rivalry
Read our blog post on the event: Ex CIA Analyst: China and U.S. in “Existential Struggle” between Democracy and Authoritarian Rule Speaker: John Culver, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub; Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John K. Culver is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and […]
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Zhang Changdong – Taxation and State Building Contradiction: Grassroots State Reconfiguration under Tax State Transition in Rural China
Zhang Changdong – Taxation and State Building Contradiction: Grassroots State Reconfiguration under Tax State Transition in Rural China
Speaker: Zhang Changdong, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2022-23Chair/discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Taxation is regarded as an important […]
Panel Discussion – What Does China’s Rise Mean for the United States?
Panel Discussion – What Does China’s Rise Mean for the United States?
For decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does this mean for the US–China relationship? For the global […]
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Navigating Asia: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Honor of Ezra Vogel
This conference is organized to honor and celebrate the late Professor Ezra Vogel’s role as the inaugural Director of the Harvard Asia Center and his commitment to transnational scholarship. Day 1: Friday, October 14, 2022 4:00-5:00pm Welcome:James Robson (Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard Asia Center; James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor, Department of East Asian Languages […]
Film Screening and In-Person Director Discussion – Days (Rizi)
Film Screening and In-Person Director Discussion – Days (Rizi)
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang.With Lee Kang-sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy.Taiwan/France, 2020, DCP, color, 127 min.Mandarin with English subtitles. In-person discussion with the director follows the film screening.Featuring remarks by Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University. Ever since Tsai prematurely announced his retirement from filmmaking following the release of Stray Dogs, his output has had a diminishing […]
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Panel Discussion: China and Japan in the Global Politics of Climate Change
Panel Discussion: China and Japan in the Global Politics of Climate Change
Speakers:Kelly Sims Gallagher, Academic Dean; Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy; Director, Climate Policy Lab; Co-Director, Center for International Environment & Resource Policy, The Fletcher School Tufts University Miranda Schreurs, Professor of Environment and Climate Policy, School of Government, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan […]
The Founding Generation: A Celebration of the Publication of Dr. Nongji Zhang’s Book on the People’s Republic of China’s First Generation of Legal Scholars, 1949-1992
The Founding Generation: A Celebration of the Publication of Dr. Nongji Zhang’s Book on the People’s Republic of China’s First Generation of Legal Scholars, 1949-1992
Speaker: Nongji Zhang, Librarian for East Asian Law, Harvard Law School LibraryPanelists: William P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law SchoolGuo Rui, Associate Professor, Renmin University of ChinaMargaret Woo, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law Cosponsored by East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard […]
Urban China Series featuring Toby Lincoln – Out of the Rubble of World War II: Reconstruction in China in Comparative Perspective
Urban China Series featuring Toby Lincoln – Out of the Rubble of World War II: Reconstruction in China in Comparative Perspective
Speaker: Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester.This paper explores urban reconstruction in China after WWII, and argues that this was more […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Kelly Sims Gallagher – The Global Race for Leadership in Clean Energy: China Versus the United States
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Kelly Sims Gallagher – The Global Race for Leadership in Clean Energy: China Versus the United States
In conversation with: Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University Speaker: Kelly Sims Gallagher, Academic Dean and Founding Director, Climate Policy Lab, The Fletcher School, Tufts University In conversation with: Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University How China is Winning the Race for Clean Energy Technology With the […]
The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink
The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink
Speaker: Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Daniel J. Kritenbrink, […]
Annabelle Pitkin – Renunciation and the Practice of Care: Himalayan Buddhist Embodiments of Longing and Devotion
Annabelle Pitkin – Renunciation and the Practice of Care: Himalayan Buddhist Embodiments of Longing and Devotion
Speaker: Annabella Pitkin, Assistant Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions, Lehigh UniversityDevotion plays a central role in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist accounts of guru-disciple relationship, part of an ideal of […]
CAMLab Cave Opening Celebration
CAMLab Cave Opening Celebration
CAMLab Cave opens following two years of renovation. It serves as a hub of innovative forms of knowledge production, pedagogy, and sensorial media practice. The Opening Celebration features projects that will materialize as immersive installations this fall. Based upon multi-year interdisciplinary research on the Buddhist culture of dance in Dunhuang, Cave Dancerecovers and animates dance […]
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Kaijun Chen – Materiality is Uncertainty: Furniture, Hairpins and Fireworks in Jin Ping Mei
China Humanities Seminar featuring Kaijun Chen – Materiality is Uncertainty: Furniture, Hairpins and Fireworks in Jin Ping Mei
Speaker: Kaijun Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Brown University This project responds to a candid question I had while reading Jin Ping Mei. The novel is packed with luxurious things, but why do the characters show little attachment to them? This lack of attachment refers to both the alienable qualities of material […]
Yi Li – Building Chinese City-Regions Under State Entrepreneurialism
Yi Li – Building Chinese City-Regions Under State Entrepreneurialism
Speaker: Yi Li, Associate Professor, School of Public Administration/National Research Center for Resettlement (NRCR), Hohai University The past decade has witnessed a variety of city-regional projects across the world, such as the formulation of city-regional plans, the establishment of inter-regional organizations, and the construction of region-wide infrastructure. For some, city-regions are seen as a geopolitical […]
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Chia-Ling Wu – Making Multiple Babies: The Anticipatory Governance of Assisted Reproduction in Japan and Taiwan
Chia-Ling Wu – Making Multiple Babies: The Anticipatory Governance of Assisted Reproduction in Japan and Taiwan
Speaker: Chia-Ling Wu, Professor, National Taiwan University Venue
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Kenneth Rogoff in conversation with Yuanchen Yang and David Yang – China’s Housing Conundrum
Kenneth Rogoff in conversation with Yuanchen Yang and David Yang – China’s Housing Conundrum
Speaker: Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics, Harvard University In Conversation With:Yuanchen Yang, Economist in the Macro-Policy Division of the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, International Monetary Fund, andDavid Yang, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University Kenneth Rogoff is Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University. From 2001–2003, Rogoff served as […]
Tarun Khanna – Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India,from Antiquity to the Present
Tarun Khanna – Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India,from Antiquity to the Present
Speaker: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School; Director, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard UniversityDiscussant: Alisha Holland, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government. Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard UniversityChair: Erez Manela, Acting Center Director (2022–2023); Director, Graduate Student Programs. Professor of History, Department of […]
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Debt and Financial Risk from China’s Real Estate Sector: Michael Pettis and Hui Shan
Debt and Financial Risk from China’s Real Estate Sector: Michael Pettis and Hui Shan
Speakers:Michael Pettis, Professor of Finance, Peking UniversityHui Shan, Managing Director and Chief China Economist, Goldman Sachs Concluding Remarks:William Overholt, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Moderators:Richard Yarrow […]
LGBTQ Rights Advocacy in China: Status and Challenges
LGBTQ Rights Advocacy in China: Status and Challenges
Speakers:Yanhui Peng, Former Director, LGBT Rights Advocacy ChinaZhijun Hu, Founder, China’s Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)Wei Wei, Professor of Sociology, East China Normal University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute If 5% of the population are members of the LGBTQ community, China’s LGBTQ population reaches at least 70 million. Over the past two […]
Hopkins-Nanjing Center Open House
Hopkins-Nanjing Center Open House
The Johns Hopkins University Hopkins-Nanjing Center will hold an information session for students interested in graduate study in China. Madeline Satin, Assistant Director of Admissions at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, will be visiting to speak about the Hopkins-Nanjing Center's graduate programs. To schedule a one-on-one appointment or admissions interview with her, visit […]
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Ching Kwan Lee – Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
Ching Kwan Lee – Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
Speaker: Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles Was Hong Kong 2019 a “Revolution of Our Times”? What was “revolutionary” about the anti-extradition movement? Turning its aspirational and stirring slogan into an empirical question, this talk assesses the breakthroughs and limits of the historic uprising, against an entrenched colonial hegemony co-produced […]
Panel Discussion – Lu Xun and World Literature: The Task of Translation
Panel Discussion – Lu Xun and World Literature: The Task of Translation
Panelists: Eileen Cheng, Pomona CollegeDavid Damrosch, Harvard UniversityTheodore Huters, University of California Los AngelesYing Hu, University of California - IrvineModerator:David Wang, Harvard University Venue
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Visiting Scholars Present
Visiting Scholars Present
Fairbank Center Scholars will share current research on China-North Korea relations, Taiwan identity and history, and land rights in China. Each short presentation will be followed by Q & A […]
East Asian Ghost Stories Gathering
East Asian Ghost Stories Gathering
Join us for Halloween goodies and spooky stories. Bring your favorite creepy tale to share, or just come listen! All Harvard students, faculty, & staff welcome. RSVP and direct questions to naia_poyer@fas.harvard.edu. Hosted by the East Asian Studies Undergraduate Concentration Venue
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Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Winston Ma – Blockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Winston Ma – Blockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race
Blockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race Speaker: Winston Ma, Author of The Hunt for Unicorns, The Digital War, andBlockchain and Web3；Adjunct Professor, NYU Law School; former MD and Head of North America at China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. Unlike many other countries, China takes a bifurcated […]
Jingran Zhang – Characterization and Environmental Impacts of Chinese and Global Aviation Emissions of CO2 and Air Pollutants
Jingran Zhang – Characterization and Environmental Impacts of Chinese and Global Aviation Emissions of CO2 and Air Pollutants
Speaker: Jingran Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project Jingran Zhang studies transportation energy and environmental issues, with a special focus on the global aviation sector. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University. Sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.QUESTIONS? Contact Kellie Nault Venue
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions
Speaker: Taisu Zhang, Professor of Law and History, Yale UniversityHow states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science, legal theory, economics, sociology, and […]
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Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany Featuring Constance Stelzenmüller – The Free World and Its Enemies: What Putin’s War and China’s Global Ambitions Mean For Us
Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany Featuring Constance Stelzenmüller – The Free World and Its Enemies: What Putin’s War and China’s Global Ambitions Mean For Us
Speaker: Constanze Stelzenmüller, Director and Fritz Stern Chair, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution Russia is at war with Ukraine—but also with the West. Will Germany’s Zeitenwende reforms be enough to help protect Europe in an age of permanent disruption? ** Please note that seating for this event is limited. To register for this […]
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