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SUMMARY:Lan Li - Sea Shells: Metaphor\, Anatomy\, and Epistemology of Brainlessness
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Lan Li \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lan-li-sea-shells-metaphor-anatomy-and-epistemology-of-brainlessness/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Winston Ma - Blockchain\, Digital Currency\, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race
DESCRIPTION:Blockchain\,  \n\n\n\nDigital Currency\,  \n\n\n\nand the   \n\n\n\nPost-20th  \n\n\n\nParty Congress  \n\n\n\nUS-China  \n\n\n\nTech Race \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: 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. \n\n\n\nUnlike many other countries\, China takes a bifurcated approach to blockchains. China government has actively promoted the digital technology of blockchain and used it for the sovereign digital currency\, but it strictly prohibited crypto mining and trading at the same time. Similarly\, relating to the latest Web3 and metaverse developments\, China’s tech companies will create a “token-less” metaverse ecosystem with unique Chinese characteristics. Using the blockchain and CBDC as an example\, we may better understand China’s latest innovation policy and the post-20th Party Congress US-China tech race\, from AI and semiconductor chips to quantum computing and electric cars. \n\n\n\nWinston Ma\, CFA & Esq.\, is an investor\, attorney\, author\, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy. He is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CloudTree Ventures\, a seed to early growth stage venture capital firm empowering interactive entertainment companies. He is currently the board Chairman of Nasdaq-listed MCAA\, a European tech SPAC\, a board member of International Data Center Authority (IDCA)\, an advisory board member of Capgemini\, and an Adjunct Professor at NYU Law School. \n\n\n\nMost recently for 10 years\, he was Managing Director and Head of North America Office for China Investment Corporation (CIC)\, China’s sovereign wealth fund. Prior to that\, Mr. Ma served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital\, a vice president at J.P. Morgan investment banking\, and a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. He was selected a 2013 Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum (WEF)\, and in 2014 he received the NYU Distinguished Alumni Award.  \n\n\n\nMr. Ma is one of a small number of native Chinese who have worked as investment professionals and practicing capital markets attorneys in both the United States and China. A nationally certified Software Programmer as early as 1994\, Mr. Ma is the book author of eight books\, including The Digital War: How China’s Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI\, Blockchain and Cyberspace (2021) and The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy (2020). His latest book “Blockchain and Web3 – Building the Cryptocurrency\, Privacy\, and Security Foundations of the Metaverse” was released by Wiley in September 2022. \n\n\n\nCosponsored by: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Winston Ma – Blockchain\, Digital Currency\, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-winston-ma-blockchain-technology-crypto-regulation-and-us-china-competition-for-digital-currency-supremacy/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T150000
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SUMMARY:Jingran Zhang - Characterization and Environmental Impacts of Chinese and Global Aviation Emissions of CO2 and Air Pollutants
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jingran Zhang\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard-China Project \n\n\n\nJingran 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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jingran-zhang-characterization-and-environmental-impacts-of-chinese-and-global-aviation-emissions-of-co2-and-air-pollutants/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T173000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems\, Politics\, and Institutions
DESCRIPTION:read the transcript here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: 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 history. Increasingly\, scholars believe that China’s relative economic decline in the 18th and 19th centuries was related to its weak fiscal institutions and limited revenue. This book argues that this fiscal weakness was fundamentally ideological in nature. Belief systems created through a confluence of traditional political ethics and the trauma of dynastic change imposed unusually deep and powerful constraints on fiscal policymaking and institutions throughout the final 250 years of China’s imperial history. Through the Qing example\, the book combs through several interaction dynamics between state institutions and ideologies. The latter shapes the former\, but the former can also significantly reinforce the political durability of the latter\, in the Qing case by artificially limiting the production of economic information that could have been used to challenge fiscal conservatism. \n\n\n\nTaisu Zhang is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and works on comparative legal and economic history\, private law theory\, and contemporary Chinese law and politics. His first book\, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England\, was published by Cambridge University Press\, and received the 2018 Presidents Award from the Social Science History Association and the 2018 Gaddis Smith Book Prize from the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. A second book\, The Ideological Foundations of the Qing Fiscal State\, is in progress. He has published articles and book chapters on a wide array of topics\, winning awards from several academic organizations\, and is a regular essayist on Chinese law\, society\, and politics in media outlets. \n\n\n\nZhang is a Global Faculty member at Peking University Law School and is the current president of the International Society for Chinese Law and History. He has also taught at the Duke University School of Law\, the University of Hong Kong\, Brown University\, and the Tsinghua University School of Law.  He holds a secondary appointment at Yale as Professor of History.Read the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems\, Politics\, and Institutions”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-taisu-zhang/
LOCATION:Room S030\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T140000
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SUMMARY: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
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Constanze Stelzenmüller\, Director and Fritz Stern Chair\, Center on the United States and Europe\, The Brookings Institution \n\n\n\nRussia 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? \n\n\n\n** Please note that seating for this event is limited. To register for this event\, please RSVP here. ** \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/guido-goldman-lecture-on-germany-featuring-constance-stelzenmuller-the-free-world-and-its-enemies-what-putins-war-and-chinas-global-ambitions-mean-for-us/
LOCATION:Yenching Auditorium\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karina Simonson - Representations of Africa and Asia in Soviet Lithuanian Children’s Visual Culture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Karina Simonson\, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies\, Vilnius University\, and Postdoctoral fellow at Vilnius Academy of Arts\, Lithuania \n\n\n\nIn this presentation\, Karina Simonson will provide an overview of her postdoctoral book project\, starting with a daring initial research idea\, discussing its aims and tasks\, facing an unexpectedly vast amount of primary material\, and dealing with the current political challenges of working with the Soviet period sources. \n\n\n\nThe project aims to conduct complex research on Soviet Lithuanian children’s visual culture\, revealing the representations of African and Asian history\, culture\, and people\, contextualizing them in related research of children’s literature\, theatre\, film\, and music\, linking with Soviet “fraternity of peoples” ideology and geopolitical interests\, and offering possible hypotheses of the origins of present-day manifestations of racism. The research is developed at the intersection of ideologized Soviet children’s culture and postcolonial theory. The project aims to go beyond local research and interpret the formation of race representation in the international context\, filling the gap in Lithuanian and East European research.Also streaming on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/karina-simonson-representations-of-africa-and-asia-in-soviet-lithuanian-childrens-visual-culture/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221107T160000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar Featuring Jeffrey Riegel - Further Reflections on an ‘Unmoved Heart’: Mengzi 2A2 Revisited
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jeffrey Riegel\, University of California Berkeley\, Emeritus \n\n\n\nMengzi 2A2 consists of Master Meng’s answers to questions put to him by a follower named Gongsun Chou. The first few of these replies relate to bu dong xin\, “unmoved heart\,”—i.e.\, mental quietude and equanimity in the face of humiliation or disappointment as well as excitement or promise—and to yang yong\, “nurturing fortitude\,” the first of several methods Mengzi identifies for achieving an “unmoved heart.” Mengzi attributes to his old rival\, Gaozi\, a sixteen-word “maxim” and adds to it a filigree of glosses and highly abbreviated explanations meant to justify why he labels the second part of Gaozi’s maxim an acceptable means for achieving an unmoved heart. In responding to subsequent questions\, Mengzi introduces and explains yang haoran zhi qi\, “nurturing the flood-like ethers\,” and zhi yan\, “recognizing (the defects in) words\,” two pillars of his own self-cultivation method. Mengzi’s elaborations on how to cultivate the ethers show that he believed they would “fill the space between Heaven and Earth” because his passions dwelled together with propriety in a state of conjugal harmony. \n\n\n\nI first presented a paper on Mengzi 2A2 at Harvard in the summer of 1976 and subsequently published it in 1980. The present paper is not simply a revision of that effort but rather a thorough reconsideration of its arguments and conclusions. The length of the passage\, but even more so its obscure subject\, technical vocabulary\, rhetorical complexities\, elliptical syntax\, and resonances for those within the Ruist tradition account for Mengzi 2A2 having generated more discussion in the traditional exegeses and commentaries than other Mengzi passages. The earliest surviving commentary was composed by Zhao Qi (d. 201 CE). The most important of the lengthy treatments is the commentary of Zhu Xi (1130-1200)\, the Mengzi jizhu\, first published in 1190\, read together with the lessons on Mengzi 2A2 Zhu Xi provided his disciples and followers toward the end of his life that are preserved in the Zhuzi yulei. \n\n\n\nThe interpretations and other aspects of the approach to and reception of Mengzi 2A2 by Zhao Qi and Zhu Xi are major subjects of analysis treated in the present study. They are supplemented by consideration of the writings of late Ming and early Qing dynasty authorities\, many of whom refute or criticize various points in Zhu Xi’s interpretations. Also important are the detailed lexical notes and other research materials compiled by Jiao Xun (1763-1820) in his Mengzi zhengyi\, in a sense a capstone of the Qing dynasty philological approach to the text. Interwoven with the explanations of these earlier commentators are my own attempts to engage with Mengzi’s thought and the often-unique difficulties of understanding the terminology he used in formulating his answers to Gongsun Chou’s questions. While this involves applying the philological tools necessary to any reading of early Chinese literature\, my purpose here is not so much to provide a close reading of Mengzi 2A2 but rather to create an interpretation of the text that will encourage readers to explore more deeply its difficulties and complexities. The last word on the text will never be written. \n\n\n\nJeffrey Riegel is retired from professorial positions at the University of California\, Berkeley (1979-2007)\, and The University of Sydney (2007-2017). Jeff has published widely on early Chinese thought\, literature\, and archaeology\, has been a visiting professor at Fudan University\, Renmin University\, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and still occasionally gives talks in China\, Hong Kong\, Singapore\, Japan\, Australia\, and North America. Jeff’s publications include The Annals of Lü Buwei (Stanford\, 2000) and Mozi: A Study and Translation of the Ethical and Political Writings (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies\, 2013). His articles appear in major sinological journals. A selection of them has been translated into Chinese and collected into a volume forthcoming in 2022 from Shanghai’s Guji Press. His recently-completed book-length study of eighteenth-century Chinese historiography on the rise of the Qin empire will be published by Berkeley’s IEAS in early 2023. Jeff spends most of his time at his homes in Siem Reap\, Suzhou\, and Palm Springs.Also presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvdeisqzosE9I38t-pSbOjiucNf41cqdob \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-jeffrey-riegel-further-reflections-on-an-unmoved-heart-mengzi-2a2-revisited/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Minhua Ling - Containerization of Migrant Housing on Shanghai's Edge
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Minhua Ling\, Fellow\, Institute for Advanced Study  \n\n\n\nChina’s escalated infrastructural and real estate development has gradually erased urban villages and reduced affordable living space for rural-to-urban migrants. This talk showcases the emerging practice of container housing among low-income migrants who live in removable cargo containers or prefabricated metal shelters on the urban fringe of Shanghai. Despite the neglected appearance of container housing\, I argue that its existence and operation exemplify “formal informality” entailing the acquiescence and surveillance of local state agents as well as entrepreneurs’ tactics of conformation that sustains structural inequality. Container housing also contributes to the deterritorialization of homemaking among migrant workers\, who are channeled by hukou-related policies to invest and retire in their registered home places. The containerization of migrant housing thus reinforces migrants’ socio-spatial precarity in China’s exclusive urban citizenship and place-specific property regime. \n\n\n\nMinhua Ling is a sociocultural anthropologist with research interests in mobility\, inequality\, sustainability\, rural-urban relations\, and environmental humanities. Her single-authored articles appeared in international journals including China Quarterly\, China Journal\, Anthropological Quarterly\, Urban Studies\, positions: asia critique\, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Her monograph The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai’s Edge (Stanford University Press\, 2020) offers the first longitudinal study of second-generation rural-to-urban migrant youth navigating through middle school to labor and consumer markets. She taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2013-2022) and is currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (2022-23)\, after which she will join the Geneva Graduate Institute as Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in the fall of 2023.Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96217779608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/minhua-ling-containerization-of-migrant-housing-on-shanghais-edge/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T173000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - China's New Politics: What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Read the Transcript here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Joseph Fewsmith\, Professor of International Relations and Political Science\, Boston University Pardee School of Global StudiesLucy Hornby\, Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Former Beijing correspondent\, Financial TimesAnthony Saich\, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolYuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nModerator: Mark Wu\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School \n\n\n\nRead the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Panel Discussion – China’s New Politics: What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-post-communist-party-congress-whats-next-for-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Li Zhiying - Tibet as Told by the Early Qing Emperors
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Zhiying\, Associate Professor\, Centre for Tibetan Studies\, Sichuan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Leonard van der Kuijp\, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies\, Harvard UniversitySeating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. \n\n\n\nHow did the official narrative about the Qing-Tibetan relationship come into being? This talk focuses on the different narratives told in public by three successive emperors of the Qing dynasty\, Kangxi\, Yongzheng\, and Qianlong. By focusing on the three central concepts in these narratives\, i.e.\, “advancing the Gelugpa Teaching (興黃教/ doro šajin be badarambumbi/ bstan srid dar bar byed)\,” “the Great Patron (大施主/amba ūklige ejen/ sbyin bdag chen po)\,” and “the Great Emperor (大皇帝/amba ejen han/gong ma chen po)\,” I will explain how these three historical narratives were developed in their own contexts and how they served the early Qing emperors to establish a new narrative about Tibet area that was accepted by the Gelug pa tradition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/li-zhiying-tibet-as-told-by-the-early-qing-emperors/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei - How China's Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping's State Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Read the Transcript\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Lingling Wei\, Senior China Correspondent\, The Wall Street Journal \n\n\n\nLingling Wei is a senior China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. She covers China’s political economy\, focusing on Beijing’s policy-making process and its key decision makers. Born and raised in China\, she has a M.A. in journalism from N.Y.U. and got her start covering U.S. real estate and finance.This talk also available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EPEoToVgRkWo1GkYp86SOw.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei – How China’s Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping’s State Capitalism”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-lingling-wei-how-chinas-private-business-is-responding-to-xi-jinpings-state-capitalism/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Chinese Kinesthetic Forms
DESCRIPTION:Topics: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMovement has a distinctively rich tradition in China. Chinese Kinesthetic Forms considers movement as an organizing principle across myriad media and cultural forms—from dance and music\, to painting and calligraphy\, to theater and martial arts. The conference explores how movement\, as both expression and object of perception\, opens experiential dimensions\, even beyond the corporeal. Coinciding with the presentation of installations from CAMLab’s Cave Dance project\, the conference joins fresh conversations on dance\, kinesthetics\, and China’s long history of performance\, and it seeks to further understanding of movement as a way of defining experience. \n\n\n\nThis conference is organized by Harvard FAS CAMLab\, with support from the Department of History of Art and Architecture.  \n\n\n\nFriday\, November 11 \n\n\n\n9:30 AM  Welcome RemarksDavid Roxburgh\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n9:45–10:30 AM  Opening Remarks and Keynote Eugene Wang\, Harvard University. “When and How Did Art Become Art? Crane Dances in Chinese Imagination” \n\n\n\n11:00–12:30 PM  The Lightness of Being: Sensorial KinestheticsPanel Chair: Alice Tseng\, Boston UniversityChenchen Lü\, Harvard University. “Flame and Fragrance: The Bodiless Body of Dancing Apsaras in Medieval Buddhist Art”Anne Feng\, Boston University. “Taking Flight: The Modern Art of the Apsaras in East Asia”Panel Discussant: Shanti Pillai\, Williams College \n\n\n\n1:00–3:00 PM  Sword Dance: Three Readings of Lady GongsunPanel Chair: Michael Szonyi\, Harvard UniversityStephen Owen\, Harvard University. “Where the Feet Touch the Ground”Xiaofei Tian\, Harvard University. “The Phantom of the Dance”Lucas Bender\, Yale University. “Sharp Turns\, Indirect Transmission\, and the Unity of the Arts”Panel Discussant: Wai-yee Li\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n3:30–5:00 PM  Reviving Repertoire: Dunhuang Dance\, Then and NowPanel Chair: Rowan Flad\, Harvard UniversityMuyun Zhou\, Pennsylvania State University. “How to Get From Dance Scores to Murals?: Bridging Representations of Tang Dance Events”Emily Wilcox\, College of William & Mary. “From Wall to Stage: Flowers and Rain on the Silk Road (1979) and the Making of Contemporary Dunhuang Dance” Panel Discussant: Thomas Kelly\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSaturday\, November 129:00–11:00 AM  Furor and Festivity: The Song-Yuan TurnPanel Chair: Leonard van der Kuijp\, Harvard UniversityHuiping Pang\, Hangzhou Normal University. “No More Fear: How Did the Southern Song Nuo Exorcists Cope with Pandemics?” Discussant: Heping Liu\, Wellesley CollegeWen-chien Cheng\, Royal Ontario Museum. “Tage (Stomping Songs): Images of Rural Festive Dancing in Chinese Paintings”Discussant: Heping Liu\, Wellesley CollegeXiaotian Yin\, Harvard University. “Demonic Divine: Reassessing ‘Dance of the Sixteen Heavenly Devils’ in the Mongol-Yuan Court”Discussant: Jinah Kim\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n11:00 AM–12:30 PM  Calligraphic KinestheticsPanel Chair: Jeffrey Moser\, Brown UniversityKathleen Ryor\, Carleton College. “Martial Heroics in the Calligraphy and Painting of Xu Wei”Amy McNair\, University of Kansas. “Like the Splash of a Great Whale Rising: Motion in the Criticism and Practice of ‘Mad Cursive’ Calligraphy”Panel Discussant: Aida Yuen Wong\, Brandeis University \n\n\n\n1:30–3:30 PM  Kinesthetic MediaPanel Chair: Christina Yu Yu\, Museum of Fine Arts\, BostonJeehee Hong\, McGill University. “Haptic Vision: Kinetic Architecture in Middle-Period China”Discussant: Aurelia Campbell\, Boston CollegeCatherine Yeh\, Boston University. “Dancing Pictures: Mei Lanfang’s ‘The Goddess Spreads Flowers’ and the Inherent Ambiguity of Modernism”Discussant: Eugene Wang\, Harvard UniversityHu Ying\, University of California\, Irvine. “Recreating the Sword-dance\, Reinventing Qiu Jin (1875–1907)” Discussant: Weihong Bao\, University of California\, Berkeley \n\n\n\n4:00–5:00 PM  From Immersion to Access: Lenora Lee Dance’s Filmic RemediationLenora Lee\, Lenora Lee DanceSanSan Kwan\, University of California\, BerkeleyModerator: Simone Levine\, Harvard FAS CAMLab \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-kinesthetic-forms/
LOCATION:Sackler Building Auditorium\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T131500
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SUMMARY:Seung Wha Chang - An Arbitration Model for Resolving International Economic/Public Disputes: A (Korean) WTO Appeal Arbitrator's View
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Seung Wha Chang\, Chairman of Korea Trade Commission & Professor of Seoul National University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/seung-wha-chang-an-arbitration-model-for-resolving-international-economic-public-disputes-a-korean-wto-appeal-arbitrators-view/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T220000
DTSTAMP:20260417T012108
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SUMMARY:Youqin Hang - Families in Transition: Living Arrangements\, Intergenerational Support\, and  Subjective Wellbeing in 21st Century China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Youqin Huang\, Professor of Geography and Planning\, Research Associate of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis\, University at Albany\, State University of New YorkThis paper examines whether the Chinese family is undergoing a Western process of modernization and an associated reduction in previously very high rate of parent-adult child co-residence\, and how this change in living arrangement affects subjective wellbeing. Using the China Household Finance Survey\, this study reveals that only two decades into the 21st century\, co-residence in China is as low as\, if not lower than that in the West.  Instead\, living apart in proximity in the same city has replaced co-residence as the most prevalent living arrangement.  This shift to proximity is a result of the negotiations between traditional and modernizing tendencies and is further enabled by significantly improved housing and household financial conditions.  This is in contrast to an emerging trend of moving back to parents’ house in the West due to rising housing cost.  Furthermore\, living apart in proximity\, together with strong inter-generational support\, has a significant positive effect on subjective wellbeing.  We conclude that even as China continues its progress in modernization and market transition\, strong intergenerational connections based on Confucian values continue to persist\, although with some modern twists\, which promotes wellbeing. \n\n\n\nDr. Youqin Huang is a Professor of Geography and Planning and a Research Associate of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at University at Albany\, State University of New York.  Her research aims to understand the impact of major socioeconomic transformations and government policies\, focusing on housing\, migration\, health\, and wellbeing. She is the (co-)author/(co-)editor of ten books/edited volumes and has published papers in leading journals in geography\, China\, urban studies\, and housing\, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\, The China Quarterly\, Urban Studies\, Housing Studies\, as well as Environment and Planning A\, and B. \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96217779608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/youqin-hang-families-in-transition-living-arrangements-intergenerational-support-and-subjective-wellbeing-in-21st-century-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T093000
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies Workshop - Taiwan Elections 2022: The Politicians' Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Read the Transcript\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn November 26\, Taiwan will be holding elections for nine local jurisdictions ranging from mayors of special municipalities such as Taipei to county magistrates down to the village chiefs. As the 2024 Presidential election approaches\, this so-called “Nine in One Election” will be carefully watched for clues to the relative strength of Taiwan’s parties. \n\n\n\nOn November 15 and 17\, the Fairbank Center’s Taiwan Studies Workshop will host two virtual seminars focused on the upcoming elections. \n\n\n\nPanelists:Ambassador Leonard Chao\, Chairman\, International Affairs Committee\, and Deputy Chairman\, Policy Think Tank\, Taiwan People’s PartyMark Chih-Wei Ho\, Congressman\, the Republic of China\, member of the Standing Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)Alfred Chia-hsing Lin\, Deputy Director\, Culture and Communications Committee and member of the Central Committee of the Kuomindang (KMT)Wan Yu Wang\, Congresswoman\, the Republic of China and member of the Central Decision Committee\, New Power Party \n\n\n\nModerator: George Yin\, Distinguished Research Fellow\, Center for China Studies\, National Taiwan University; Associate in Research\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q2IRMwrYST-lS7ei5mvtEQ.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-workshop-taiwan-elections-2022-the-politicians-perspective/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T123000
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SUMMARY:Chan Chi-Keung - Pure Sentiment and Strained Reasoning: An Exploration of Neo-Confucian Liu Jishan’s Moral Psychology
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chan Chi-Keung\, Associate Professor of Philosophy\, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Michael Puett\, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. \n\n\n\nThis talk attempts to examine the contribution made by late Ming Neo-Confucianist Liu Jishan (1578-1645) in producing lasting insights on human moral psychological mechanisms. Unlike Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming\, who maintained a more Kantian outlook in moral ethics\, Liu had instead developed a more Humean-like model that places greater emphasis on the multiple facets of the affective faculties of the moral mind. According to Liu\, human emotions possess self-regulatory functions\, a postulation which partly forms the basis of morality. In contrast\, the growth of evil associates closely with the misuse of human rationality. By incorporating the latest theories in moral psychology\, I argue that the core of Liu’s philosophy represents a form of Confucian moral sentimentalism. Naturally\, the introduction of Liu’s philosophy would require this paper to explicate Liu’s position\, however\, it also undertakes the broader aim at engaging the philosophy of ancient Chinese thinkers like Liu in a modern\, cross-cultural\, and interdisciplinary philosophical dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chan-chi-keung-pure-sentiment-and-strained-reasoning-an-exploration-of-neo-confucian-liu-jishans-moral-psychology/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T180000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Jonas Nahm - Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy
DESCRIPTION:Read the Transcript\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jonas Nahm\, Assistant Professor of Energy\, Resources\, and Environment\, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)Nahm’s new book examines the development of wind and solar industries in China\, Germany\, and the United States as a window into the political economy of innovation and economic development in highly globalized industries. The book argues that new possibilities for collaboration among firms in the global economy have reinforced distinct national patterns of industrial specialization. In the decades before international economic integration made it easier for firms from around the world to work together on tasks ranging from production to innovation\, differences in national capitalisms yielded equally distinct national industrial specializations for production\, innovation\, and competitiveness. Globalization has since challenged the primacy of nation states by moving beyond their territorial reach many of the activities that now make up the global economy. However\, as shown in the book\, globalization not only continues to be mediated by domestic institutions\, it also causes persistent and consequential divergence of such institutions and national industrial specializations over time.  \n\n\n\nJonas Nahm is Assistant Professor of Energy\, Resources\, and Environment at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington\, DC. His research examines the intersection of economic and industrial policy\, energy policy\, and environmental politics. He studies the role of the state in processes of industrial restructuring that accompany policy responses to climate change and clean energy transitions more broadly. His work utilizes clean energy transitions in China\, Germany\, and the United States to engage two debates in comparative political economy: (1) the role of the state in shaping the international division of labor in highly globalized industries\, and (2) sources of state capacity in interest group politics during periods of industrial restructuring. \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1saKMiC4Q72NIidKR5DQkw.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-jonas-nahm-collaborative-advantage-forging-green-industries-in-the-new-global-economy/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jessica Chen Weiss - How to Avert a Crisis Over Taiwan and Stabilize US-China Tensions
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom hybrid attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jessica Chen Weiss\, Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies\, Cornell University \n\n\n\nJessica Chen Weiss is the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the Department of Government at Cornell University. From August 2021 to July 2022\, she served as senior advisor to the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS). Weiss is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press\, 2014). Her research appears in International Organization\, China Quarterly\, International Studies Quarterly\, Journal of Conflict Resolution\, Security Studies\, Journal of Contemporary China\, and Review of International Political Economy\, as well as in the New York Times\, Foreign Affairs\, Los Angeles Times\, and Washington Quarterly. Weiss was previously an assistant professor at Yale University and founded FACES\, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford University. Born and raised in Seattle\, Washington\, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California\, San Diego in 2008\, where her dissertation won the 2009 American Political Science Association Award for best dissertation in international relations\, law and politics. Weiss is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qJNv4p3ZQcqNS46yeKhHiA \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/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jessica-chen-weiss-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T110000
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies Workshop - Taiwan Elections 2022: The Analysts' Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn November 26\, Taiwan will be holding elections for nine local jurisdictions ranging from mayors of special municipalities such as Taipei to county magistrates down to the village chiefs. As the 2024 Presidential election approaches\, this so-called “Nine in One Election” will be carefully watched for clues to the relative strength of Taiwan’s parties. \n\n\n\nOn November 15 and 17\, the Fairbank Center’s Taiwan Studies Workshop will host two virtual seminars focused on the upcoming elections. \n\n\n\nPanelists:Lev Nachman\, National Chengchi UniversitySara Newland\, Smith CollegeChia-hung Tsai\, National Chengchi University; 2022-2023 Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nModerator: Steven M. Goldstein\, Fairbank Center Associate \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VvU7JvaCSoezJJ-C2neYMA.  \n\n\n\nRead the Transcript of the Event Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: The Analysts’ Perspective”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-workshop-taiwan-elections-2022-the-analysts-perspective/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T173000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Benno Weiner - This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion! The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China
DESCRIPTION:Read the Transcript Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Benno Weiner\, Associate Professor\, Carnegie Mellon UniversityThrough much of the 1950s\, the Chinese Communist Party considered disunity between ethnocultural groups (minzu)primarilyto be a product of “great nationality chauvinism\,” which refered to exploitation committed in the past by the Han majority against “minority nationalities.” In parts of China’s Northwest\, however\, the Party identified Hui Muslim elites\, not Han\, to be the main agents of nationality exploitation and Tibetans to be their principal targets. It therefore declared Tibetans of all classes to be a priori victims of nationality exploitation. By contrast\,because Hui were considered to be both victims and traffickers of nationality exploitation\, the regional leadership ordered “good” Muslims be distinguished from “bad.” While echoing Qing and even Republican-era practices of labeling Muslim communities and responding to rebellion\, I argue that its 1950s permeation must be understood within the CCP’s own practices of minoritization and frameworks for conceptualizing the new socialist nation-state. All of which was made more urgent by a string of uprisings that between late-1949 and mid-1953 engulfed several Muslim-majority areas along the Qinghai-Gansu Highlands and spilled into the Tibetan and Mongol-dominated grasslands to their south. \n\n\n\nDr. Weiner is a historian of Modern China\, Tibet and Inner Asia. His research revolves around China’s contested and possibly incomplete transition from empire to nation-state and in particular the processes and problematics of twentieth-century state and nation building within China’s ethnic minority regions. Before joining CMU\, he taught at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. \n\n\n\nDr. Weiner’s first book\, The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (Cornell UP\, 2020)\, is among the first major studies of a “nationality minority region” during the formative years of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)\, and the first to examine early efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to integrate the vast region known to Tibetans as Amdo into the PRC. Applying the theoretical lens of imperial transition to the methodology of local history\, it argues that in 1950s Amdo Party leaders implicitly understood both the administrative and epistemological obstacles to transforming a vast multiethnic empire into a unitary\, socialist nation-state. For much of the decade the CCP therefore employed a “subimperial” strategy\, referred to as the United Front\, as a means to “gradually\,” “voluntarily\,” and “organically” bridge this gap between empire and nation. However\, the United Front ultimately lost out to a revolutionary impatience that demanded immediate national integration and socialist transformation. This led in 1958 to communization\, “democratic reforms\,” and large-scale rebellion. Despite successfully identifying the tensions between empire and nation\, and attempting to creatively resolve them\, empire was eliminated before the process of de-imperialization and nationalization was completed. Like so many of the world’s most intractable conflicts\, he therefore contends that at the root of the Sino-Tibetan conflict lies the unresolved legacy of empire.Read the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Modern China Lecture Series featuring Benno Weiner – This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion! The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-benno-weiner-this-absolutely-is-not-a-hui-rebellion-the-ethnopolitics-of-great-nationality-chauvinism-in-early-maoist-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221118T080000
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SUMMARY:Coexistence 2.0: U.S.-China Relations in a Changing World
DESCRIPTION:U.S.-China relations are increasingly tense. But both countries need to forge a path that allows for cooperation and competition—Coexistence 2.0. Join us as top experts discuss the way forward. \n\n\n\nThe U.S.-China relationship is the most important in the world\, with decisions affecting the world’s chances for global peace\, prosperity\, and sustainability. Each country has its own view of what its role\, and the other’s role\, in the world should be in the 21st Century. These views are not entirely in sync. This has created tensions\, and could become more destabilizing. However\, it’s in the interests of both countries to find a way forward together that leaves room for cooperation\, competition\, perhaps even confrontation\, without leading to war — Coexistence 2.0\, a more complex and engaged form of coexistence than the United States had with the Soviet Union in the last century. \n\n\n\nMajor questions framing what is possible include what China wants\, how China’s domestic realities affect President Xi Jinping’s dream of “rejuvenating” China and\, the actions he can take at home and abroad\, how much and in what ways the United States and its allies can influence Beijing’s decision-making\, and what greater global forces and trends are at play\, affecting what the United States\, China\, or the two of them together\, can do or might want to do. \n\n\n\nThis symposium aims to provoke thought on these questions\, and to deepen understanding of the U.S.-China relationship. The conference is co-presented by the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard Kennedy Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia\, with support from the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and UC San Diego’s 21st Century China Center. \n\n\n\nFriday November 18th \n\n\n\n8:00-8:10AM: Welcome\n\n\n\nMark Wu\, Director\, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law SchoolTony Saich\, Director\, Harvard Kennedy School Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia \n\n\n\n8:10 – 9:10AM: Chinese Views on U.S.-China Relations\n\n\n\nTwo influential Chinese experts share their views of changing U.S.-China relations\, in conversation with the moderator. \n\n\n\nModerator:Yasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management\, MITSpeakers:Wei Da\, Director\, Center for International Security and Strategy\, Tsinghua UniversityDaojiong Zha\, Professor of International Political Economy\, School of International Studies\, Peking University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9:10-9:20AM: Break\n\n\n\n9:20-10:30AM: China’s Realities at Home\n\n\n\nWhat domestic realities and challenges are driving and affecting the Chinese government’s goals and strategy\, at home and abroad\, in terms of Communist Party politics\, the state of China’s economy\, and social factors? \n\n\n\nModerator:Tony Saich\, Director\, Harvard Kennedy School Rajawali Foundation Institute for AsiaSpeakers:Arthur Kroeber\, Founding Partner\, Head of Research\, GavekalYa-Wen Lei\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Harvard UniversityDavid Shambaugh\, Director\, China Policy Program\, Elliott School of International Affairs\, George Washington UniversitySusan Shirk\, Chair\, 21st Century China Center\, Research Professor\, UC San Diego \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:45-11:55AM: Competition & Cooperation in Security\, Ideas and Rules\n\n\n\nChina and the United States are competing on multiple fronts\, including in promoting their values and ideas and setting international rules and standards. China is challenging and hoping to end the United States’ long-held role as predominant Indo-Pacific power\, by building a “String of Pearls” presence in ports throughout Asia\, the Middle East and Europe\, establishing a presence near chokepoints to strategic waterways (Djibouti\, Gwadar)\, and accelerating the modernization of China’s overall military capabilities\, including developing a blue water navy capability. What does Coexistence 2.0 look like on all these fronts? Where is there still room for cooperation\, and where is competition inevitable? How can the two sides avoid a hot war? \n\n\n\nModerator:Graham Allison\, Professor of Government\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolSpeakers:Andrew Erickson\, Professor of Strategy and Research Director in the Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies InstituteTaylor Fravel\, Director\, Security Studies Program\, MITJoseph Nye\, Professor Emeritus and Former Dean\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security AffairsJessica Chen Weiss\, Professor of Government\, Cornell University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:00-1:15PM: Lunch\n\n\n\n1:15-2:25PM: Competition & Cooperation in Trade\, Investment\, and Technology\n\n\n\nA look at U.S.-China competition in global trade and investment\, especially emergent technologies and infrastructure. To what extent should both sides engage in greater decoupling for national security reasons? What do developing nations want\, how has China’s BRI changed the landscape\, and how effectively are the United States and its allies responding?  Even amid growing strategic competition\, can both parties work to define common norms of behavior in cyberspace and to cooperate on emergent technologies to address common problems? \n\n\n\nModerator:Mark Wu\, Director\, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law SchoolSpeakers:Elizabeth Economy (invited)\, Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo; Senior Fellow\, Hoover InstitutionMeg Rithmire\, Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business SchoolDan Rosen\, Founder\, Rhodium Group \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:25-2:35PM: Break\n\n\n\n2:35-3:45PM: How Asian Countries See China and U.S.-China Competition\n\n\n\nMuch of Asia is stuck in the middle between longstanding relationships with the United States and the prospect of potential economic opportunity coming from China. How do Asian countries view China’s rise—as a threat or an economic opportunity? Are they fearful of falling into the “debt trap” that international analysts have warned of\, or do they welcome Chinese investment? How are they affected by U.S. trade sanctions on China? What do they hope the United States will offer? \n\n\n\nModerator:Fatema Z. Sumar\, Executive Director\, Harvard University Center for International DevelopmentSpeakers:Ian Chong\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, National University of SingaporeBopha Phorn\, Nieman fellow\, independent journalist based in Phnom PenhEd Case (invited)\, U.S. Congressman; co-founder\, Congressional Pacific Islands Caucus \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3:45-4:00PM: Break\n\n\n\n4:00-5:10PM: Toward Coexistence 2.0: What Should the U.S. Do?\n\n\n\nIf Coexistence 2.0 is to allow healthy competition and even some cooperation while avoiding unnecessary war\, what needs to happen to get there\, recognizing that China aspires to greater global influence than it already has? How can these two great powers collaborate more on global issues that matter\, like climate change? What is U.S. policy already doing well to support U.S. interests and the rules-based international order?  What could U.S. policy do better? Can the Thucydides trap be avoided\, and how much do both sides really want to avoid it? \n\n\n\nModerator:Bill Alford\, Vice Dean\, Graduate Program and International Legal Studies\, Harvard Law School; Director\, East Asian Legal StudiesSpeakers:Jude Blanchette\, Freeman Chair\, Chinese Studies\, CSISMelanie Hart\, China Policy Coordinator for the Office of Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth\, Energy and Environment\, Director of China Policy\, Center for American ProgressOrville Schell\, Arthur Ross Director\, Center on U.S.-China Relations\, Asia SocietyRobert S. Ross\, Research Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5:10-5:50PM: What Does History Tell Us?\n\n\n\nWinston Lord accompanied Henry Kissinger on his secret trip to China in 1971\, and he has been helping to shape U.S. policy and watching China closely ever since. Lord served as ambassador to China from 1985-1989\, tumultuous years that saw the country’s rapid opening up and then the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement. He served as Assistant Secretary of State from 1993–1997. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Winston Lord\, Former Assistant Secretary of State; Former Ambassador to ChinaIn conversation with Orville Schell\, Arthur Ross Director\, Center on U.S.-China Relations\, Asia Society \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5:50-6:00PM: Closing Remarks\n\n\n\nMark Wu\, Director\, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law SchoolTony Saich\, Director\, Harvard Kennedy School Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/coexistence-2-0-u-s-china-relations-in-a-changing-world/
LOCATION:Milstein West\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eva Nga Shan Ng - Trials Heard by a Foreign Ear: A Study of Chinese Jurors’ Comprehension of English Trials in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eva Nga Shan Ng\, Assistant Professor\, Translation Programme\, School of Chinese\, the University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Nicholas Harkness\, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nStudies in jury comprehension have hitherto mainly explored Anglo-American courts and focused on examining English-speaking jurors’ ability to understand legal discourse\, particularly with respect to jury instructions. Such studies reveal doubts about jurors’ comprehension of the legalese in jury instructions and argue for the use of plain English to make jury instructions accessible to lay jurors. This paper reports findings of a study contextualized in the Hong Kong courtroom\, where criminal trials in the High Court are routinely heard by local Chinese jurors presumed to have a sufficient command of the language used in court\, be it English or Chinese. This study aims to test the validity of  the presumption about Chinese jurors’ ability to understand trials conducted in English\, which they speak as a second or even a foreign language (L2)\, and to explore how L2 jurors’ comprehension might be further compromised due to a lack of proficiency in English. A random sample of local Chinese eligible for jury service (N=53) are recruited from the community to take part in the study\, which comprises a demographic survey of the subjects\, as well as a test of their comprehension of courtroom discourse using authentic audio recordings of two trials from the High Court of Hong Kong. The results of this study show an average listening comprehension level of around 41% by the subjects\, with some attaining below 25%. The results also show that the subjects’ listening comprehension problems are not limited to legalese. Taking the Voice Projection Framework (Heffer 2018) as a point of reference\, this study suggests that while discursive voicing is largely to blame for the subjects’ comprehension problem\, as in studies with native English-speaking jurors\, in the case of L2 jurors\, the speakers’ physical voicing of courtroom discourse is demonstrated and perceived by the subjects to be a major factor in impeding their comprehension of the courtroom discourse. This paper argues that making courtroom discourse accessible to L2 jurors means more than improving the discursive voicing\, but physical voicing matters as much\, if not more. This paper also discusses the possibility of providing interpretation for jurors in need of the service to ensure equal participation in jury service by people randomly selected from the community and to mitigate the jury dilemma. \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eva-nga-shan-ng-trials-heard-by-a-foreign-ear-a-study-of-chinese-jurors-comprehension-of-english-trials-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Performing the Ecological Fix Under State Entrepreneurialism in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Fangzhu Zhang\, ​University College London \n\n\n\n​This talk examines the recent green turn in China by investigating a large-scale urban greenway project—’Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu. Using the perspective of the socio-ecological fix\, we demonstrate that the local state has seized the opportunity provided by the central state’s ‘ecological civilisation’ to carry out green infrastructure development to upgrade environmental quality. We reveal complex motivations to incorporate environmental improvement into entrepreneurial urban governance instead of allowing economic growth to encroach on greenspace. Our state-centred analysis reveals that Chinese green urbanism has been promoted like a political mission\, despite its implementation by development corporations. We argue that\, while the socio-ecological fix facilitates capital accumulation\, its deployment must be understood through state politics and actors. \n\n\n\n​Fangzhu Zhang is an Associate Professor in China Planning and joint coordinator for China Planning Research Group in Bartlett School of Planning\, University College London (UCL). Her main research interests focus on innovation and governance; urban village redevelopment and migrant integration in China; urban financialisation; and eco-innovation and eco-city development in China. She has been involved in several research projects funded by the British Academy\, ESRC (UK) and the EU. She has published articles extensively in leading international journals such as Urban Studies\, Regional Studies\, Political Geography. She is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal entitled “Transactions in Planning and Urban Research” (TPUR). Currently\, she is working on the ERC Advanced Grant research project\, rethinking China’s urban governance. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96217779608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/performing-the-ecological-fix-under-state-entrepreneurialism-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Sarah Mellors Rodriguez - Birth Control and Abortion in China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Sarah Mellors \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sarah-mellors-rodriguez-birth-control-and-abortion-in-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu - The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Linh Vu\, Assistant Professor\, Arizona State University \n\n\n\nThis talk focuses on (1) the politics of martyr commemoration in Republican China (1911–1949) and (2) the governance of the posthumous identities of the Nationalist Chinese dead in contemporary Taiwan. The Chinese Republic laid the foundation for the modern nation-state through the governance of these millions of war dead. In addition\, the commemoration of war martyrs has been the unifying and consolidating force in the formation of national identity and sovereignty in a place with complicated status such as Taiwan. My case studies of China during the Republican era and Taiwan in recent decades demonstrate how the power of the dead necessitates that political\, social\, and cultural institutions develop the means to control the way by which they are remembered. The dead are invested with significance to constitute the national spirit\, to affirm political legitimacy\, and to recreate social coherence and temporal continuity. \n\n\n\nLinh Vu is an assistant professor of history in the School of Historical\, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University\, Tempe\, Arizona\, USA. Her first book\, Governing the Dead: Martyrs\, Memorials\, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China (Cornell University Press\, 2021)\, examines the efforts of the Chinese nation-state to record\, commemorate\, and compensate military and civilian dead and how such efforts transformed China’s social and cultural institutions.This event also available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6yUmfHCUSRy5_1M2doG8ow \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu – The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-linh-vu/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Jane Lim - Faking Origins: Imitating China in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jane Lim | Associate Professor\, Department of English Language and Literature\, Seoul National University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Deidre Shauna Lynch\, Harvard College Professor; Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jane-lim-faking-origins-imitating-china-in-eighteenth-century-english-literature/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jia Qingguo - How China Will Respond to the Renewed Liberal Alliance
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom hybrid attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jia Qingguo\, Professor\, School of International Studies\, Peking University; Payne Distinguished Fellow\, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies\, Stanford UniversityModerator: Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nJia Qingguo is professor of the School of International Studies of Peking University. Currently\, he is a Payne Distinguished Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. He is a member of the Standing Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He is vice president of the China American Studies Association\, vice president of the China Association for International Studies\, and vice president of the China Japanese Studies Association. He has published extensively on US-China relations\, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan and Chinese foreign policy. \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YudLUlKWT9mP20rwdjGunQ \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jia Qingguo – How China Will Respond to the Renewed Liberal Alliance”\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-lingling-wei/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Junyan Jiang - From Kins to Comrades: Rural Clan Society and the Rise of Communism in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Junyan Jiang\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Columbia University \n\n\n\nA key paradox of social revolutions of the 20th century is that despite their radical\, modernist claims\, success often hinges on effective mobilization of the peasantry\, who are typically conservative and inward-looking. This paper studies how traditional networks and cleavages within rural society can be creatively adapted by movement entrepreneurs to generate revolutionary impetus. Using newly digitized data on family genealogies and over half a million revolutionary participants from 637 armed uprisings led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)\, we study how CCP organizers’ local clan affiliations affect mobilization outcomes during the incipient stage of the revolution (1927–1936). Triple-difference estimates suggest that local organizers instigated a significant number of co-clan members to join uprisings and the effect is more salient for organizers from larger clans. We also find that uprisings led by members of dominant clans are more likely to succeed\, and that clan-based mobilization capitalized on both intra-clan solidarity and inter-clan animosity. These findings underscore a subtle yet significant linkage between agrarian institutions and modern revolutions and help reconcile several longstanding debates about the rise of Chinese communism. \n\n\n\nJunyan Jiang studies comparative politics and political economy\, focusing on the politics of elites\, organizations\, and ideas. Some of his current research projects explore the formation and transformation of political elite networks in China\, the interplay between formal rules and informal power in bureaucratic systems\, and the dynamics of ideology in changing societies. His work has been published in American Journal of Political Science\, British Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Politics\, Journal of Public Economics\, and Journal of Development Economics\, among others. He has received the 2020 Gregory Luebbert Article Award for the best article in comparative politics from the American Political Science Association (APSA)\, and honorable mentions for the 2016 Sage Paper Award for the best paper presented at APSA Annual Meetings and the 2018 Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in political economy. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining Columbia\, he taught at Chinese University of Hong Kong and held a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago. \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-junyan-jiang/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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