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SUMMARY:Li Chunyuan - Contextualizing the Numbers: grain prices in Yuan 元 dynasty China\, 1250-1350
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Chunyuan\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: David Yang\,  Associate Professor of Economics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk \n\n\n\nMasks are required for all in-person audience members. Seating is limited. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/li-chunyuan-contextualizing-the-numbers-grain-prices-in-yuan-%e5%85%83-dynasty-china-1250-1350/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Austin Strange - China’s Overseas Infrastructure: Bumps Along the Road to Global Influence?
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Austin Strange\, Assistant Professor of International Relations\, Department of Politics and Public Administration\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nInfrastructure is at the heart of China’s growing\, controversial presence in global development. In addition to economic considerations\, infrastructure projects are important cogs in China’s pursuit of international influence. But do overseas infrastructure projects actually serve as effective influence tools for China? Examining a new dataset of 20th-century Chinese-financed projects along with new evidence on Chinese development finance since 2000\, we find that these projects have created mechanisms of influence as well as a source of risk for China and host countries. As a result\, contemporary Chinese global infrastructure has injected major uncertainty into China’s pursuit of international influence. Given questions about the Belt and Road Initiative\, what will China’s future global infrastructure look like? \n\n\n\nAlso presented on Zoom. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XTQC_H2tT1yEVMEij6vDvw.  \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Austin Strange – China’s Overseas Infrastructure: Bumps Along the Road to Global Influence?”\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-austin-strange-chinas-overseas-infrastructure-the-road-to-global-influence/
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:20230301T160000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Joseph Torigian - Succession Politics and the Xi Family in the 1980s: The "Three Types of People\," "Princelings\," and Center-Provincial Relations in Hebei and Fujian
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph Torigian\, Assistant Professor\, School of International Service\, American University \n\n\n\nAfter the Cultural Revolution\, a three-fold succession crisis loomed for the People’s Republic of China. First\, at the very top\, old party cadres dominated and were reluctant to relinquish their positions – especially after spending so much time with no power whatsoever during the Cultural Revolution. Second\, at the grassroots level\, the party faced the question of how to manage those young individuals who displayed questionable behavior during the Cultural Revolution but who\, at the time\, thought they were just enacting Mao’s wishes. Third\, while “princelings” – the offspring of top party officials – were seen by many old revolutionaries as the most trustworthy inheritors of the revolution\, as a group they suffered a poor reputation in society. Xi Zhongxun was the top figure on the secretariat managing these issues at the same time that his son Xi Jinping was rising the ranks in the 1980s\, but family ties were a double-edged sword for the young Xi Jinping. The situation was further complicated by disputes in Beijing and provincial capitals on how quickly to reform. Twice\, pro-reform leaders close to Xi Zhongxun were pushed out shortly after his son arrived to work in the provinces they led. Ultimately\, the story of the Xi family in this decade is a microcosm of how the party struggled to resolve the succession controversies bestowed by Mao. \n\n\n\nDr. Torigian studies the politics of authoritarian regimes with a specific focus on elite power struggles\, civil-military relations\, and grand strategy. His philosophy as a scholar is to select topics based on the widest gap between the under-utilization of available documents and their theoretical and empirical importance\, extract broader lessons\, and use those lessons to help us to understand two nations of crucial geopolitical importance – Russia and China. His research agenda draws upon comparative politics\, international relations\, security studies\, and history to ask big questions about the long-term political trajectories of these two states. In particular\, he is interested in how leaders in those countries create security against threats from within the elite\, their own people\, and other states. \n\n\n\nPreviously\, Torigian was a Stanton Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations\, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton-Harvard’s China and the World Program\, a Postdoctoral (and Predoctoral) Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)\, a Predoctoral Fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies\, an IREX scholar affiliated with the Higher School of Economics in Moscow\, a Fulbright Scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai\, and a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. His research has also been supported by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation\, MIT’s Center for International Studies\, MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives\, the Critical Language Scholarship program\, and FLAS. I am also a Global Fellow at the History and Public Policy Program at the Wilson Center. \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-joseph-torigian/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
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SUMMARY:Dean's Symposium on Social Science Innovation - China in Focus: New Social Science Approaches
DESCRIPTION:zoom Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHost: Lawrence Bobo\, Dean of Social Science\, Faculty of Arts and Sciences\, Harvard UniversityModerator: Mark Elliot\, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard UniversityPanelists:Ya-Wen Lei\, Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard UniversityVictor Seow\, Assistant Professor\, History of Science\, Harvard UniversityYuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard UniversityDavid Yang\, Professor\, Department of Economics\, Harvard UniversityMore info: https://socialscience.fas.harvard.edu/event/deans-symposium-china-in-focus.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/deans-symposium-on-social-science-innovation-china-in-focus-new-social-science-approaches/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:“Friends with No Limits?” The Future of China-Russia Relations
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: Friends with “No Limits”? A Year into War in Ukraine\, History Still Constrains Sino-Russian Relations \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy and Research Director\, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); Visiting Professor\, Government Department\, Harvard University; Associate in Research\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.M. Taylor Fravel\, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science\, Director of the Security Studies Program\, MITEmily Holland\, Assistant Professor\, Russia Maritime Studies Institute\, U.S. Naval War CollegeAlexandra Vacroux\, Executive Director\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard UniversityModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nA year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine\, are China and Russia still “friends with no limits?” Since embracing that phrase\, Chinese President Xi Jinping has sought\, on occasion\, to publicly distance Beijing from Moscow. Is that actually happening\, or is this just a mirage?  Over the past year\, bilateral trade has more than doubled\, with China offering much-needed economic support to blunt the impact of Western sanctions. Could Chinese contributions undermine EU\, U.S.\, and G7 country sanctions and prolong Putin’s war? What are the prospects for Sino-Russian partnership in politics\, defense\, and intelligence? \n\n\n\nJoin us as leading experts examine how a new China-Russia axis is changing the global order. \n\n\n\nAndrew S. Erickson is Professor of Strategy and the Research Director in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). He is a Visiting Professor at the Harvard University Department of Government Department and an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Erickson helped establish CMSI in 2006 and has played an integral role in its development. CMSI inspired the creation of other research centers\, which he has advised and supported; he is a China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI) Associate. He is also an Executive Committee member of Israel’s Haifa Maritime Center and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves on the editorial boards of Naval War College Review and Asia Policy. \n\n\n\nM. Taylor Fravel is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taylor studies international relations\, with a focus on international security\, China\, and East Asia. His books include Strong Borders\, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes\, (Princeton University Press\, 2008) and Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949 (Princeton University Press\, 2019). Taylor is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University\, where he received his PhD. He also has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Oxford University\, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2016\, he was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation. \n\n\n\nEmily Holland is an assistant professor in the Russia Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Previously\, she was an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval Academy\, a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a visiting fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (Berlin) and the European Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin). Professor Holland’s research has appeared in The Journal of International Affairs\, Newsweek and Lawfare\, among other publications. \n\n\n\nAlexandra Vacroux is Executive Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Her scholarly work addresses many Russian and Eurasian policy issues and she teaches popular courses on the comparative politics of Eurasia and post-Soviet conflict. As Director of Graduate Studies for the Davis Center’s MA program in regional studies\, she has mentored dozens of Harvard’s best and brightest students and regional experts. Alexandra lived in Moscow from 1992 to 2004. While there she held a number of positions\, including consultant for the Russian Privatization Agency; partner and head of sales at the Brunswick Warburg investment bank; and active member of the board of United Way Moscow.  \n\n\n\nAlso available via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C_UXFIGVTsOLdWGUcWGm_A \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of ““Friends with No Limits?” The Future of China-Russia Relations”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/friends-with-no-limits-the-future-of-china-russia-relations/
LOCATION:Hall A\, Science Center\, 1 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Contesting Territory\, Asserting Sovereignty beyond China’s Borders
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Darshana M. Baruah\, Fellow\, South Asia Program\, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceAndrew Chubb\, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and International Relations\, Lancaster UniversityIsaac B. Kardon\, Senior Fellow for China Studies\, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceModerators:Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow; Director\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian StudiesJames Evans\, Ph.D. Candidate in History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nChina is increasingly assertive in its claims to territories along its borderlands. From renewed tensions with India in the Himalayas\, to the construction of military outposts on expanded islets in the South China Sea\, China’s pursuit of land and maritime claims display an unwillingness to compromise in its contestations over territory. Combined with its overseas expansion in military bases and civilian infrastructure\, China’s outbound activities indicate that Beijing will continue to assert claims over its near abroad and beyond to ensure its political\, military\, and economic security. Bringing together experts on the South China Sea\, the Indian Ocean\, and China’s overseas expansion\, this panel discussion asks how China’s adaptive understanding of sovereignty and territory interact with a growing assertiveness in its foreign affairs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/contesting-territory-asserting-sovereignty-beyond-chinas-borders/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Ariel Fox - Every Man a Merchant: Plays of the Suzhou Circle and the Making of an Early Modern Economic Subject
DESCRIPTION:Register for Hybrid Zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ariel Fox\, Assistant Professor of Chinese literature\, University of Chicago. \n\n\n\nThis talk explores the way in which commercial identities are recast and recreated in the plays of the Suzhou circle\, a group of collaborative playwrights active in the mid-seventeenth century. In plays that center the denizens of the marketplace\, the Suzhou circle brings to the fore those who were often pointedly excluded from the roles of romantic lead\, Confucian exemplar\, or heroic adventurer. The refashioning of the merchant from anxiety-producing object to sympathetic subject appears across late Ming philosophical and literary discourses\, but more than just a genre-specific iteration\, these plays make use of the conventions of chuanqi drama to deconstruct and open up the nature and meaning of merchanthood. Through a reading of three plays—Zhan huakui 占花魁 (Winning the Prize Courtesan)\, Shiwu guan 十五貫 (Fifteen Strings of Cash)\, and Qingzhong pu 清忠譜 (Register of the Pure and Loyal)—I argue that the merchant is recuperated not only as a moral figure but as a universal and sublime one. At a moment of unprecedented commercial penetration\, such a transformation of the merchant-role becomes a site for the early modern subject to elaborate a more fluid self-conception. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvc-mqqzwpG9Ua1fmcmUZXivD3TBu0WLMX \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-ariel-fox-every-man-a-merchant-plays-of-the-suzhou-circle-and-the-making-of-an-early-modern-economic-subject/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Stories We Tell: The Politics of History in China and the United States
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: The Stories We Tell: Can the U.S. and China Reset their Conflicting Narratives? \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Jill Lepore\, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law\, Harvard University; Staff Writer\, The New YorkerWen YU\, Visiting Assistant Professor of History\, Boston College \n\n\n\nModerator: Michael Puett\, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIf every nation needs a shared history\, what is our story\, and who gets to tell it? These questions haunt both the United States and China. \n\n\n\nThe revival of nationalist interpretations of American history has rekindled debates about the role of history in shaping the meaning of American identity and the country’s shared values. Since the creation of a shared history that begins with the nation’s founding ideals has been central to the construction of American identity\, debates about shared values in the United States are often inseparable from debates about the meaning of the past. Similarly\, in China throughout the 20th century and into the present\, the interpretation of Chinese national history has been the battlefield for defining the country’s identity and shared values. \n\n\n\nJill Lepore\, Professor of American History and author of “These Truths: A History of the United States\,” and Wen YU\, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Boston College\, will examine the similarities between the ongoing debates in both countries. In a conversation moderated by Michael Puett\, Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, they will also explore the tensions between history as a nation-building story and as a mode of inquiry that allows for self-examination and the integration of the historical experiences of other societies. \n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center Big Questions Initiative\, conceived by PhD candidate Benjamin Gallant\, aims to challenge conventional views of fixed cultural differences through a series of public conversations that examine how China\, America\, and other societies have debated and addressed ​​a similar set of central questions. By inviting prominent scholars from outside of Chinese studies to engage in dialogue with scholars studying China\, we hope to encourage the audience to think in more complex ways about China and the United States\, and in the process\, to gain a deeper understanding of how we are all connected. \n\n\n\nJill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History and Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include\, “These Truths: A History of the United States” (2018)\, an international bestseller\, named one of Time magazine’s top ten non-fiction books of the decade. Her new book\, “The Deadline\,” will be published in 2023. She is currently working on a long-term research project called Amend\, an NEH-funded data collection of attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution. \n\n\n\nWen YU is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Boston College. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2018 and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan from 2019 to 2021. Her research focuses on China’s history of social and political thought\, ideological movements\, and intellectual culture from the seventeenth century to the present. She is working on a book project based on her award-winning dissertation\, entitled “The Search for a Chinese Way in the Modern World: From the Rise of Evidential Learning to the Birth of Chinese Identity.” It explains how defining Chinese cultural identity has become central to the intellectual debates about the political system and moral values in modern China. \n\n\n\nMichael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology at Harvard University. His interests are focused on the inter-relations between history\, anthropology\, religion\, and philosophy\, with the hope of bringing the study of China into larger historical and comparative frameworks. He is the author of “The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China” and “To Become a God: Cosmology\, Sacrifice\, and Self-Divinization in Early China.” His course\, “Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory\,” is one of the most popular courses at the university. \n\n\n\nBenjamin Gallant is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages at Harvard University whose research focuses on the intellectual and legal history of early China. His dissertation project examines how people used and debated the past in ancient China as the emergence of legalist statecraft and an imperial bureaucracy introduced enormous tensions between the state\, the family\, and the individual. His research has been supported by the Fulbright Program\, the Gerda Henkel Foundation\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d-hUobBFTZOvmU8n5amfzA \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “The Stories We Tell: The Politics of History in China and the United States”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-stories-we-tell-the-politics-of-history-in-china-and-the-united-states/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Zak Dychtwald - What Do China’s Youth Want?
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zak Dychtwald\, Founder and CEO\, Young China Group \n\n\n\nThere is enormous discussion of China’s hundreds of millions of young people.  Consumer\, competitor\, collaborator\, and most recently political participant – this young generation will define China’s role on the world stage in the decades to come.  They have grown up with enormous economic progress\, relatively free everyday life\, and the intensive focus of the world’s brands as the leading growth consumer. They have also faced relentless pressure—to get into the right school\, to make money\, to please their parents. \n\n\n\nOn the tail end of three years of COVID measures\, three decades of a speeding economy is beginning to slow\, job markets are stagnating\, and some are choosing to “lie flat\,” 躺平， essentially opting out of the rat race. \n\n\n\nHow resilient is the younger generation to a slowing economy that no longer offers instant opportunity? And do the White Paper protests suggest they want more\, in terms of freedom and their relationship with the government? \n\n\n\nZak Dychtwald is the author of critically acclaimed Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World and founder of market insights firm\, Young China Group. A fluent mandarin speaker with a decade in China\, Dychtwald’s goal is to bring a people-first approach to China and understand how evolving youth identity drives economic and political outcomes.  \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8i5vdJ8UQ_SgrTBWyEog-g.  \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Zak Dychtwald – What Do China’s Youth Want?”\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-zak-dycthwald/
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:Texas: From Carbon Emitter to Green Hydrogen Exporter - A Promising Sustainable Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Haiyang Lin\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment \n\n\n\nTexas\, as the largest oil and natural gas producer in the United States\, faces significant challenges in the global move towards decarbonization. As a potential solution\, this study examines the feasibility of investing in green hydrogen\, a promising alternative to oil and gas as a primary energy source. By harnessing its abundant wind and solar resources\, Texas has the potential to become a major producer and exporter of green hydrogen\, reducing its carbon footprint and promoting a sustainable energy future. This talk is part of comparative research on the same topics in China\, led by Chinese researcher Dr. Haiyang Lin\, and drawing on knowledge from China. \n\n\n\nThis research conducts detailed simulations and optimizations of green hydrogen supply scenarios\, incorporating decarbonization of the power sector in Texas. The objective is to explore the role of Texas’s green hydrogen in decarbonizing its economy and reducing the carbon footprint of energy use in the United States more broadly. First\, the potential of renewable sources is estimated. Hydrogen supply\, pipeline planning\, and grid expansion are then integrated to assess opportunities for using zero-carbon hydrogen in transport services\, industrial processes\, and chemical production. The study reveals that Texas has significant advantages in an expanding hydrogen economy\, including abundant renewable sources\, existing infrastructure\, and availability of salt caverns for storage\, all of which provide both scale and cost benefits\, as well as enhanced grid stability. Under 2030 low carbon policy restrictions\, more than 20 million tons of hydrogen can be produced and then used as fuel or converted to other chemicals at a competitive cost compared to fossil fuel sources. Retrofitting extensive oil and gas pipelines originating from Texas or constructing new pipelines\, Texas can maintain its role as an energy exporter\, contributing to the energy needs of the country in a sustainable manner. \n\n\n\nOur work considers the possibility of importing the cheap alkaline electrolyzer from China to Texas to help the state develop a green hydrogen economy. Chinese electrolyzer is one third of the cost for US eclectrolyzer. We simulated their utilization in Texas and highlighted the impact of importing Chinese electrolyzer on green H2 production in terms of levelized H2 cost and scale. \n\n\n\nMeanwhile\, given the similarities of Texas and Inner Mongolia in fossil fuel consumption\, industrial development\, and renewable power endowment\, we are looking for collaborations to pursue a comparative study on Inner Mongolia\, China. This seminar will focus on Texas’s green hydrogen economy but the research framework and methodology we developed are well applicable for studying other regions. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/texas-from-carbon-emitter-to-green-hydrogen-exporter-a-promising-sustainable-future/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230223T190453Z
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SUMMARY:Journey of an Exile Tibetan Leader: From Harvard to Dharamsala
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Lobsang Sangay\, Former Sikyong (President)\, Central Tibetan Administration; Senior Visiting Fellow\, East Asian Legal Studies Program\, Harvard Law School \n\n\n\nHarvard University Asia Center’s 17th Tsai Lecture\, sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund at the Harvard University Asia Center\, co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University and Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSee more details here: https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/journey-exile-tibetan-leader-harvard-dharamsala \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/journey-of-an-exile-tibetan-leader-from-harvard-to-dharamsala/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230201T180902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230223T202829Z
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SUMMARY:Wei-Cheng Lin - House of the Buddha in Scale: China’s “Small” Architecture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wei-Cheng Lin\, University of Chicago \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wei-cheng-lin-house-of-the-buddha-in-scale-chinas-small-architecture/
LOCATION:Plimpton Room (133)\, Barker Center\, 12 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230310T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230310T113000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230216T200621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230216T200623Z
UID:31683-1678444200-1678447800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Grey zones: Opium Trade\, Migrations\, and Empires in Central and Northeast Asia\, 1900s-1930s
DESCRIPTION:watch on youtube live\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Niccolò Pianciola\, Associate Professor of History\, University of PaduaModerator: Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow; Director\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies \n\n\n\nBy comparing the border area between Turkestan and Xinjiang with the region in the Russian Far East bordering Manchuria\, the talk will explore how the cross-border opium economy connected the Tsarist Empire and then the USSR to China and to the larger global opium market. It will also highlight the ambiguous status between legality and illegality in which opium remained during this period of imperial competition and state collapse\, and the contradictions in both Tsarist and early Soviet rule of these two key Asian borderlands. \n\n\n\nAlso available on YouTube Live. Watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC1VoHuseD4.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/grey-zones-opium-trade-migrations-and-empires-in-central-and-northeast-asia-1900s-1930s/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230310T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230310T123000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230208T151327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T151329Z
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SUMMARY:Norifumi Sakai - Between the Canon and the Field: Daoist liturgical manuals in Qing China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Norifumi Sakai\, Associate Professor\, Keio University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23Discussant: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/norifumi-sakai-between-the-canon-and-the-field-daoist-liturgical-manuals-in-qing-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T220000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230119T140315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T202513Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Tao Ran - The China Model of Growth and Urbanization 
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Tao Ran\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) \n\n\n\nThis talk outlines a holistic analytical framework for China’s current growth and urbanization model\, as well as its political and economic background and consequences. Tao Ran argues that China has developed an investment-driven and export-oriented growth and urbanization model since the mid-1990s. Under this model\, state-owned banks\, upstream state-owned enterprises\, and local governments have maintained administrative monopolies in the financial sector\, the upstream manufacturing and non-financial high-end service sector\, and urban commercial & residential land development respectively. At the same time\, the Chinese central and local governments have engaged in a two-tier international and domestic race to the bottom to support market competition in consumer goods production by private firms. This has significant implications for China’s further growth and development.    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-tao-ran/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T173000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230209T165121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T155053Z
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SUMMARY:Gal Gvili and Adhira Mangalagiri - Imagination and Disconnection: New Literary Studies of China-India
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Gal Gvili\, McGill University; Author\, Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious\, 1895–1962Adhira Mangalagiri\, Queen Mary London; Author\, States of Discontent: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth CenturyModerator: Karen Thornber\, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard UniversityChair: Arunabh Ghosh\, Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nJoin us as we hear Gal Gvili and Adhira Mangalagiri discuss their exciting new books in a conversation moderated by Karen Thornber. \n\n\n\nAlso available via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AHDv2BY4Ry-wHRRm7XRlwg \n\n\n\nSponsors:Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHarvard University Asia CenterHarvard-Yenching InstituteCenter for Global Asia\, NYU Shanghai \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Gal Gvili and Adhira Mangalagiri – Imagination and Disconnection: New Literary Studies of China-India”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gail-gvili-and-adhira-mangalagiri-imagination-and-disconnection-new-literary-studies-of-china-india/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T220000
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SUMMARY:Japan’s Real Estate Crisis and Implications for China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Takeo Hoshi\, Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Economics\, University of TokyoPaul Sheard\, former Senior Fellow\, Harvard Kennedy School and author of The Power of MoneyWei Xiong\, Professor of Economics\, Princeton University \n\n\n\nModerators:Richard Yarrow and Jinlin Li\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nIn the 1980s\, Japan’s economic growth represented up to a quarter of the world’s annual GDP growth. Much of Japan’s growth was tied to an extraordinary growth in property markets. By 1990\, residential land prices in Tokyo and Osaka were nearly three times what they were in 1985\, Japanese property taken together was valued at four times the value of real estate in the US\, and real estate and construction were contributing over a fifth of Japan’s GDP. In 1991\, Japan’s real estate growth came to a halt. As China addresses bubbles and financial risks in its real estate sector\, could China’s economy face similar outcomes? What can China learn from the path of the real estate sector in Japan? \n\n\n\nPlease join experts on Japan’s and China’s financial systems and real estate sectors for this discussion. The event features Paul Sheard and Takeo Hoshi discussing factors around the rise and fall of Japan’s property market in the 1980s and 1990s\, and how Japan could have differently managed its real estate boom and crisis. Wei Xiong will then discuss parallels and differences with conditions in China. \n\n\n\nThis event is the third in a series on China’s real estate sector and its broader economic effects. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/4016774864578/WN_0fQgCzzHQtOwRnew05zJCQ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/japans-real-estate-crisis-and-implications-for-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T170000
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SUMMARY:The Shōsōin Imperial Treasury: New Directions in Research
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Shōsōin Treasury\, located near the Tōdaiji monastery in Nara\, Japan\, houses over 9000 objects and ancient documents dating to the eighth century or earlier. These diverse objects showcase the cultural traditions of not only Nara Japan\, but also Silla Korea\, Tang China\, the Central Asian kingdoms\, Sasanian Iran\, and beyond. This inaugural conference\, “The Shōsōin Imperial Treasury: New Directions in Research\,” engages specialists to discuss new trajectories in the Shōsōin studies. The conference features an opening lecture by Professor Yukio Lippit\, panel discussions with renowned scholars\, an interview with Natsuki Kitazawa\, the curator of the Nara National Museum\, and three lightning talks on Shōsōin objects by Harvard graduate students.  \n\n\n\nOrganized by: Department of History of Art and Architecture\, Harvard University and Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event. For in-person and Zoom attendance\, please register through the Google Form: https://forms.gle/WpFHh6nuqoWjHCRX7.  If you have any questions\, please email them to shosoinconference@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-shosoin-imperial-treasury-new-directions-in-research/
LOCATION:Sackler Building Auditorium\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T171500
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230302T180137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T224756Z
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SUMMARY:“Environment in Asia” Reunion with a Tribute to Robert Marks and Peter Perdue
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog posts on the event: Exploring How the Environment Shapes China’s History and Conference Examines Planning and China’s Rapidly Growing Cities \n\n\n\nOrganizer: Ling Zhang\, Boston College; Convener of the Environment in Asia series \n\n\n\nNote: Due to the limited capacity of the venue\, the symposium will be a closed-door event. The public may view the event by registering for a Zoom Webinar. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fs-4nrYSTzSqYM6OtpgPHw. \n\n\n\nThe “Environment in Asia” research series at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is dedicated to promoting diverse environmental discourses and research methodologies within the field of Asian studies\, especially the field of Chinese studies. Since its founding in 2012\, the series has hosted dozens of lectures\, panel discussions\, conferences\, film screenings\, and art exhibitions. It has brought together scholars from various disciplinary and area studies backgrounds and has served as a platform to present their scholarship\, exchange ideas\, and form collaborations. \n\n\n\nThis symposium has two goals. First\, it honors two founding speakers and long-time supporters of the Environment in Asia series\, Professor Robert Marks and Professor Peter Perdue. It celebrates their life-long achievements as forerunners in the field of Chinese environmental history. Over the past four decades\, Professor Marks and Professor Perdue have been tirelessly committed to studying and writing environmental history as well as to mentoring students and junior colleagues. Their scholarship and services have profoundly shaped how we understand and practice Chinese environmental history. The symposium is a tribute to these intellectual leaders of ours and their lasting impact on our community. \n\n\n\nSecond\, as a reunion of the Environment in Asia series\, the symposium brings back some old friends of the series\, and it welcomes many new colleagues. More than celebrating the rich and eventful decade of the series\, the symposium invites these scholars from diverse fields and different generations to gather and reflect on our common endeavor: How do we research\, write\, and teach environmental issues as humanities and social scientific scholars\, and how do we promote environmental consciousness and model multi- and inter-disciplinary environmental scholarship in order to complicate and diversify the fields of Asian and Chinese studies\, which are dominated by humancentric concerns and practices? The symposium invites its participants to review what we as a community of environmental scholars have achieved; to assess what works and what doesn’t; to suggest different paths and new possibilities; to identify our shared challenges; and to propose exciting experiments. Through individual presentations and group conversations\, the symposium seeks to facilitate mutual understanding and mutual learning within our environmental-studies community. It aims to strengthen the community’s bond and to further its growth as an important\, indispensable subfield of Asian and Chinese studies. \n\n\n\nSchedule \n\n\n\n8:45–9:00 Welcome (Ling Zhang and Mark Wu) \n\n\n\n9:00–10:30 Tigers\, Rice\, and the Dongting Lake: The Journeys toward Environmental History (Moderator: Ling Zhang) \n\n\n\n10:30–10:45 Break \n\n\n\n10:45–12:45 Researching the Environment (Moderator: Arunabh Ghosh) \n\n\n\n12:45–13:30 Lunch \n\n\n\n13:30–15:00 Writing the Environment (Moderator: Victor Seow) \n\n\n\n15:00–15:15 Break \n\n\n\n15:15–16:45 Teaching the Environment (Moderator: Brian Lander) \n\n\n\n16:50¬–17:10 Closing (Robert Marks\, Peter Perdue\, and Ling Zhang) \n\n\n\nParticipants \n\n\n\nClark Alejandrino (Trinity College)Nicole Barnes (Duke University)David Bello (Washington and Lee University)Tristan Brown (MIT): “Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China”Wesley Chaney (Bates College)Chris Coggins (Bard College at Simon Rock)Bradley Camp Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)Alexander F. Day (Occidental College)Xiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design)Qin Fang (McDaniel College)Xiaofei Gao (University of Colorado\, Denver): “The Nature of Labor: Integrating Environmental and Social Changes of Modern Maritime China”Yan Gao (University of Memphis)Yuan Gao (Georgetown University): “China’s Arid West: An Environmental History of Late Qing and Early Republican Xinjiang”Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University)Yongqiang Guan (Nankai University\, China)Mary Alice Haddad (Wesleyan University)Kyuhyun Han (University of California\, Santa Cruz): “From Hunting for Local People to Hunting for the Nation: PRC Hunting Industry and Amur Tiger Conservation in Northeast China\, 1949-1965”Zhaoqing Han (Fudan University\, China)Michael Hathaway (Simon Fraser University\, Canada)Jack Hayes (Kwantlen Polytechnic University\, Canada)Emily M. Hill (Queen’s University\, Canada)Rui Hua (Boston University): “When Great States Mined on Drifting Continents: A Magnesium-based Story of Local Farmers and Global Mining Laws on the Liaodong Peninsula\, 1.85GA-1931 AD”Fei Huang (University of Tübingen\, Germany)Brian Lander (Brown University)Peter Lavelle (University of Connecticut)De-nin Lee (Emerson College)John Lee (Durham University\, UK): “Mongol Legacies and Island Ecologies in Early Modern Korea”Robert Marks (Whitter College\, Emeritus)John McNeill (Georgetown University)Caroline Merrifield (Yale University): “Practical Politics in China’s Food Movement”Covell Meyskens (Naval Postgraduate School)Ian J. Miller (Harvard University)Ian M. Miller (St John’s University)Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh)Micah Muscolino (University of California\, San Diego)Peter Perdue (Yale University\, Emeritus)Kenneth Pomeranz (University of Chicago)Anne-Sophie Pratte (Georgetown University\, Qatar): “Mapping Grasslands in 19th Century Qing Mongolia”Ying Qian (Columbia University)Guldana Salimjan (Simon Fraser University\, Canada)James Scott (Yale University)Victor Seow (Harvard University)Michael Szonyi (Harvard University)Yuk Ping Wan (Brown University)You Wang (University of Chicago)R. Bin Wong (University of California\, Los Angeles)Donald Worster (University of Kansas\, Emeritus)Mingfang Xia (Remin University\, China)Bingru Yue (Queen’s University\, Canada): “From Wetland to Ecological Model: Reclamations of Chongming Island\, Shanghai\, from 1950 to 2020”Amy Zhang (New York University): “Waste’s Collectives: political and ecology in urban China”Junfeng Zhang (Shanxi University\, China)Ling Zhang (Boston College) \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of ““Environment in Asia” Reunion with a Tribute to Robert Marks and Peter Perdue”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-reunion-with-a-tribute-to-robert-marks-and-peter-perdue/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T120000
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SUMMARY:Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia\, 1895–1945
DESCRIPTION:Register For Hybrid Zoom Attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Seiji Shirane\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History; Affiliated Faculty Member\, Asian Studies Program\, The City College of New York (CUNY) \n\n\n\nModerator: Karen Thornber\, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, and Harvard University Asia Center. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvcOqqqDIjGtLcXCPwI7QkCVzzXnuF2FBL \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/seiji-shirane-imperial-gateway-colonial-taiwan-and-japans-expansion-in-south-china-and-southeast-asia-1895-1945/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230320T131500
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SUMMARY:Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jérôme Doyon\, Junior Professor at SciencesPo; author of Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao ChinaRespondent: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\,  \n\n\n\nWorking for the administration remains one of the most coveted career paths for young Chinese. “Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China” seeks to understand what motivates young and educated Chinese to commit to a long-term career in the party-state and how this question is central to the Chinese regime’s ability to maintain its cohesion and survive. Jérôme Doyon draws upon extensive fieldwork and statistical analysis in order to illuminate the undogmatic commitment recruitment techniques and other methods the state has taken to develop a diffuse allegiance to the party-state in the post-Mao era. He then analyzes recruitment and political professionalization in the Communist Party’s youth organizations and shows how experiences in the Chinese Communist Youth League transform recruits and feed their political commitment as they are gradually inducted into the world of officials. As the first in-depth study of the Communist Youth League’s role in recruitment\, this book challenges the assumption that merit is the main criteria for advancement within the party-state\, an argument with deep implications for understanding Chinese politics today. \n\n\n\nLunch will be served for in-person attendees.  \n\n\n\nRegistration is required for both online and in-person attendees. Register at: https://hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/event-registration?s=a1n4V000006EM8BQAW&c=7014V000002IyegQAC \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rejuvenating-communism-youth-organizations-and-elite-renewal-in-post-mao-china/
LOCATION:Wexner W-434 A.B\, 19 Eliot St\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
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SUMMARY:Wealth and Politics in Asia: HYI Annual Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:Yuen Yuen Ang\, Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy\, Johns Hopkins UniversityYasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management\, MIT Sloan School of ManagementDevesh Kapur\, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies\, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)Pasuk Phongpaichit\, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy\, Chulalongkorn UniversityBridget Welsh\, Honorary Research Associate\, University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute Malaysia \n\n\n\nModerator:Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nHow does the recent rise of a super-rich stratum across much of Asia affect the politics of different countries? Are the ultra-affluent more likely to wield influence in democracies or in authoritarian regimes? Through what means and to what ends? An inter-disciplinary panel of experts on China\, India and Southeast Asia will share observations and insights on this timely issue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wealth-and-politics-in-asia-hyi-annual-roundtable/
LOCATION:Fong Auditorium\, Boylston Hall\, Boylston Hall\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T173000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230309T182708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230630T185402Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard Visual China Inaugural Graduate Symposium--"Luminosity in Chinese Art & Culture"
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom Prometheus the Fire-Bringer to myths of cosmogony\, light and luminosity is an enduring metaphor in human history. In modern science\, light and luminosity are understood as matters of wavelength and energy. Yet in the Chinese context\, luminosity is not confined to issues of the visual and visibility. In fact\, luminosity had long been associated with consciousness and vitality beyond the expiration of the physical body\, especially in connections with certain materials and objects. The Harvard Visual China Inaugural Graduate Symposium presents three panels on this topic: Panel 1: Visualizing Luminosity; Panel 2: Painting Luminosity; Panel 3: Luminous Jewels. \n\n\n\nMore information and registration: https://www.harvardvisualchina.com/hvc-2023-symposium-info-registration. \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Department of History of Art & Architecture\, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Innovation Fund\, and Harvard FAS CAMLab.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-visual-china-inaugural-graduate-symposium-luminosity-in-chinese-art-culture/
LOCATION:Sackler Building Auditorium\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T220000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230119T140523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T204301Z
UID:31370-1679949000-1679954400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Adam Liu: Small Banks\, Big Politics: The Cause and Consequences of Bank Proliferation in China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Adam Liu\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nThe Henan bank protest\, the Evergrande crisis\, and the perennial local government debt issue in China all point to one thing: there’s something wrong with the country’s banking system and Beijing needs to fix it. In particular\, it needs to better regulate the numerous small banks that are now so intimately intertwined with much of China’s economic challenges. Beijing is working on it but it’s hard to do. This talk explains why. First\, the exponential proliferation of small banks in the past three decades is hardly a natural phenomenon of economic/financial development; it is the outcome of a grand historical central-local bargain that’s difficult for current central leaders to upend. Second\, and relatedly\, many small banks have become the dominant players in local banking markets and are thus a crucial pillar of local economic development. Tight regulation and excessive punishment will therefore hurt local growth further in this difficult time. Beijing will have to juggle. \n\n\n\nThis event series is made possible by the generous support of 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-adam-liu/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230328T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230222T172504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T224926Z
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SUMMARY:How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night One\, "Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing Period"
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History\, Politics—and Chinese Identity \n\n\n\nThe lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane\, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in the process the unique power of forging shared identities – familial\, communitarian\, regional and national\, becoming more recently a heritage food in different Chinese societies today. Its status as a popular\, necessary daily food endowed it with social and economic values that have made its production an integral part of state building for successive regimes – Qing\, Republican\, Socialist\, post-Socialist. Since the early 20th century\, soy sauce has been crafted with changing knowledge and techniques\, by experts in evolving institutions and enterprises\, and marketed to satisfy consumers’ shifting imaginations of their time\, community\, and environment.  \n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\, 4:30pm Lecture 1: Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing PeriodThe explosion of soy sauce’s popularity as an everyday food in China is explained in the context of the mid-eighteenth-century integration of Manchuria\, which would become the world’s biggest soybean producer\, into the Qing Empire at the zenith of its political power. The development changed urban landscapes\, shaped everyday life and forged new urban identities.  \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 29\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 2: The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China Soy sauce as a super connector gained enormous power in the 19th and early 20th centuries:  It was made and offered to tighten bonds within lineages\, strengthen native place relationships\, and diplomatic ties. It symbolized communitarian and national solidarity\, hospitality and pride. Such immense power imbued the condiment with significant economic value.  \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 3: Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience Under deteriorating governance and facing the influx of industrial Japanese products\, Chinese soy sauce production was to be transformed as part of the state program of industrial modernization. The process produced a first generation of food scientists and technocrats navigating between codified scientific knowledge and traditional practices based on embodied skills\, an approach still valid in the 21st century when heritage sauces are being constructed. \n\n\n\nAngela Ki Che Leung is Chair Professor of History\, Joseph Needham-Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History\, Science and Civilization at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong since 2011. After obtaining her doctoral degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, Paris\, she became a researcher at the Academia Sinica\, Taiwan\, in 1982\, and taught history at UCLA\, National Taiwan University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica in 2010. She has published in Chinese\, English and French on the history of Chinese philanthropy and history of medicine and health. Her books in English include Leprosy in China: A History (2009)\, Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia (2010\, co-edited with Charlotte Furth); Gender\, Health and History in East Asia (2017\, co-edited with Izumi Nakayama); Moral Foods: The Construction of Health Regimes in Modern Asia (2019\, co-edited with Melissa Caldwell). She led a Hong Kong government funded collaborative project on everyday technologies in modern East Asia from 2017-2022\, and is preparing an edited volume on Food Technoscience in East Asia and a monograph on the history of Chinese soy sauce.Also available via Zoom. Register at:  https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uaNtmwT2SPiUyNxzpzF40w \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night One\, “Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing Period””\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-soy-sauce-shapes-modern-china-the-power-of-an-everyday-food-2023-fairbank-center-reischauer-lecture-series-featuring-angela-kc-leung-night-one/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T131500
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230201T161619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T225011Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China - Challenges Confronting China’s Healthcare System Post-COVID: A conversation between Winnie Yip and William Hsiao
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: How a Slowing Economy—and Big Hospitals—Are Challenging Healthcare Reform in China \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Winnie Chi-Man Yip\, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Department of Global Health and Population\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health \n\n\n\nDiscussant: William Hsiao\, K.T. Li Professor of Economics\, Emeritus\, in Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iRwh1x7UQ5G-OFRAGQXp0w \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China – Challenges Confronting China’s Healthcare System Post-COVID: A conversation between Winnie Yip and William Hsiao”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-winnie-chi-man-yip/
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:20230329T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230222T172904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T224925Z
UID:31737-1680107400-1680112800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Two\, "The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China"
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History\, Politics—and Chinese Identity \n\n\n\nThe lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane\, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in the process the unique power of forging shared identities – familial\, communitarian\, regional and national\, becoming more recently a heritage food in different Chinese societies today. Its status as a popular\, necessary daily food endowed it with social and economic values that have made its production an integral part of state building for successive regimes – Qing\, Republican\, Socialist\, post-Socialist. Since the early 20th century\, soy sauce has been crafted with changing knowledge and techniques\, by experts in evolving institutions and enterprises\, and marketed to satisfy consumers’ shifting imaginations of their time\, community\, and environment.   \n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\, 4:30pm Lecture 1: Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing PeriodThe explosion of soy sauce’s popularity as an everyday food in China is explained in the context of the mid-eighteenth-century integration of Manchuria\, which would become the world’s biggest soybean producer\, into the Qing Empire at the zenith of its political power. The development changed urban landscapes\, shaped everyday life and forged new urban identities.  \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 29\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 2: The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China Soy sauce as a super connector gained enormous power in the 19th and early 20th centuries:  It was made and offered to tighten bonds within lineages\, strengthen native place relationships\, and diplomatic ties. It symbolized communitarian and national solidarity\, hospitality and pride. Such immense power imbued the condiment with significant economic value.  \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 3: Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience Under deteriorating governance and facing the influx of industrial Japanese products\, Chinese soy sauce production was to be transformed as part of the state program of industrial modernization. The process produced a first generation of food scientists and technocrats navigating between codified scientific knowledge and traditional practices based on embodied skills\, an approach still valid in the 21st century when heritage sauces are being constructed. \n\n\n\nAngela Ki Che Leung is Chair Professor of History\, Joseph Needham-Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History\, Science and Civilization at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong since 2011. After obtaining her doctoral degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, Paris\, she became a researcher at the Academia Sinica\, Taiwan\, in 1982\, and taught history at UCLA\, National Taiwan University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica in 2010. She has published in Chinese\, English and French on the history of Chinese philanthropy and history of medicine and health. Her books in English include Leprosy in China: A History (2009)\, Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia (2010\, co-edited with Charlotte Furth); Gender\, Health and History in East Asia (2017\, co-edited with Izumi Nakayama); Moral Foods: The Construction of Health Regimes in Modern Asia (2019\, co-edited with Melissa Caldwell). She led a Hong Kong government funded collaborative project on everyday technologies in modern East Asia from 2017-2022\, and is preparing an edited volume on Food Technoscience in East Asia and a monograph on the history of Chinese soy sauce.Also available via Zoom. Register at:  https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gr9J4wRjRlST0KeJYWLTgg \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food—2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Two\, “The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China””\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-soy-sauce-shapes-modern-china-the-power-of-an-everyday-food-2023-fairbank-center-reischauer-lecture-series-featuring-angela-kc-leung-night-two/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230201T180415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230201T180416Z
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SUMMARY:Alexis Brown - Time and Narrative in the Rasavāhinī: A Literary Theoretical Approach to Reading a Theravada Buddhist Text
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alexis Brown\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alexis-brown-time-and-narrative-in-the-rasavahini-a-literary-theoretical-approach-to-reading-a-theravada-buddhist-text/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Thompson Room\, 12 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T180000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230222T173430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T224923Z
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SUMMARY:How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food - 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Three\, "Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience"
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on this series of lectures: What Soy Sauce Can Tell Us About History\, Politics—and Chinese Identity \n\n\n\nThe lecture series examines the cultural and political meaning of soy sauce by tracing its long trajectory from an obscure elite condiment to a mundane\, everyday food in the modern period. The condiment acquired in the process the unique power of forging shared identities – familial\, communitarian\, regional and national\, becoming more recently a heritage food in different Chinese societies today. Its status as a popular\, necessary daily food endowed it with social and economic values that have made its production an integral part of state building for successive regimes – Qing\, Republican\, Socialist\, post-Socialist. Since the early 20th century\, soy sauce has been crafted with changing knowledge and techniques\, by experts in evolving institutions and enterprises\, and marketed to satisfy consumers’ shifting imaginations of their time\, community\, and environment.   \n\n\n\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023\, 4:30pm Lecture 1: Becoming an Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in the High Qing PeriodThe explosion of soy sauce’s popularity as an everyday food in China is explained in the context of the mid-eighteenth-century integration of Manchuria\, which would become the world’s biggest soybean producer\, into the Qing Empire at the zenith of its political power. The development changed urban landscapes\, shaped everyday life and forged new urban identities.  \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 29\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 2: The Power of a Malleable Everyday Food: Soy Sauce in Modern China Soy sauce as a super connector gained enormous power in the 19th and early 20th centuries:  It was made and offered to tighten bonds within lineages\, strengthen native place relationships\, and diplomatic ties. It symbolized communitarian and national solidarity\, hospitality and pride. Such immense power imbued the condiment with significant economic value.  \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 30\, 2023\, 4:30pmLecture 3: Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience Under deteriorating governance and facing the influx of industrial Japanese products\, Chinese soy sauce production was to be transformed as part of the state program of industrial modernization. The process produced a first generation of food scientists and technocrats navigating between codified scientific knowledge and traditional practices based on embodied skills\, an approach still valid in the 21st century when heritage sauces are being constructed. \n\n\n\nAngela Ki Che Leung is Chair Professor of History\, Joseph Needham-Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History\, Science and Civilization at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong Kong since 2011. After obtaining her doctoral degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, Paris\, she became a researcher at the Academia Sinica\, Taiwan\, in 1982\, and taught history at UCLA\, National Taiwan University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica in 2010. She has published in Chinese\, English and French on the history of Chinese philanthropy and history of medicine and health. Her books in English include Leprosy in China: A History (2009)\, Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia (2010\, co-edited with Charlotte Furth); Gender\, Health and History in East Asia (2017\, co-edited with Izumi Nakayama); Moral Foods: The Construction of Health Regimes in Modern Asia (2019\, co-edited with Melissa Caldwell). She led a Hong Kong government funded collaborative project on everyday technologies in modern East Asia from 2017-2022\, and is preparing an edited volume on Food Technoscience in East Asia and a monograph on the history of Chinese soy sauce.Also available via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nIxWlsf8TlakxRYAt9OOgA \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food – 2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Angela KC Leung\, Night Three\, “Soy Sauce in Crisis: China’s First Engagement with Technoscience””\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-soy-sauce-shapes-modern-china-the-power-of-an-everyday-food-2023-fairbank-center-reischauer-lecture-series-featuring-angela-kc-leung-night-three/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T140000
DTSTAMP:20260503T010839
CREATED:20230323T163149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T205550Z
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Henry Gao - China\, State Capitalism and the World Trading System
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Henry Gao\, Professor of Law\, Singapore Management University; Senior Fellow\, CIGI \n\n\n\nHenry Gao is Professor of Law at Singapore Management University and Senior Fellow at CIGI. With law degrees from three continents\, he started his career as the first Chinese lawyer at the WTO Secretariat. He has been an advisor on trade issues to many national governments as well as the WTO\, UN\, World Bank\, ADB\, APEC\, ASEAN and the World Economic Forum. Widely published on China and WTO and digital trade issues\, he sits on the Advisory Board of the WTO Chairs Program\, as well as the editorial boards of the Journal of International Economic Law and Journal of Financial Regulation. He was recently interviewed by the Economist for its Money Talks podcast episode on “How globalisation gave way”\, and his new paper analyzing China’s changing perspectives on the WTO was quoted as an “invaluable” paper by the Financial Times in its feature article on China’s 20th anniversary in the WTO. His new book “Between Market Economy and State Capitalism: China’s State-Owned Enterprises and the World Trading System” was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-henry-gao-china-state-capitalism-and-the-world-trading-system/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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