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SUMMARY:2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests - Discussing Disability Law in China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests\,” over the first two weeks of April. This year\, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States\, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law\, education in China\, US-China climate change collaborations\, antitrust law\, and blockchain technology.This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department\, the Harvard Antitrust Association\, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\nDiscussing Disability Law in ChinaMon\, April 3\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012 \n\n\n\nAntitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the IntricaciesTues\, April 4\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?Tues\, April 4\, 8:00–9:00 pm ET | WCC 1015Blockchain from a Chinese PerspectiveMon\, April 10\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2004Collaborating on Climate ChangeWed\, April 12\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2009 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-china-law-symposium-reacquainting-with-china-through-common-interests/
LOCATION:WCC 2012\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T210000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: "The Schools Out of City\," Featuring Discussion with Executive Director (PEER)\, Hong Liu and Co-producer\, Xinran Liang 
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Hong Liu\, Executive Director of PEER\, an NGO dedicated to promoting educational equity in rural China Xinran Liang\, Co-producer of the documentary  Menghan Shen\, Associate Professor of Government\, Sun Yat-Sen University; Research Fellow\, HKS  \n\n\n\nRural China. Mysterious\, distant\, silent. What does it mean to address rural-urban educational inequality in China as an individual and a volunteer? What does it mean to promote ‘quality education’ in rural county high schools\, inside out? What does it mean to be ‘on the ground’? The Schools Out of City (沉默的县中) follows the footsteps of long-term volunteers in three high schools in rural Hunan and Guangxi and invites its audience to a world of bottom-up educational experiments. Following the screening\, there will be a discussion with Hong Liu\, executive director of the rural education NGO\, PEER\, Xinran Liang\, co-producer of the documentary\, and Menghan Shen\, Associate Professor of Government at Sun Yat-Sen University and research fellow at HKS.  \n\n\n\nPEER is an NGO founded in 2007 by a group of Harvard alumni to promote educational equity in rural China. It has over a decade of experience of working with students and teachers from rural county schools.  Please contact xiaorui_zhou@g.harvard.edu for more information.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-the-schools-out-of-city-featuring-discussion-with-executive-director-peer-hong-liu-and-co-producer-xinran-liang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T220000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230119T140818Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Cai Meina - Legal Discrimination\, Contention Pyramid\, and Land Takings in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Cai Meina\, University of Connecticut \n\n\n\nHow do land-dispossessed villagers protect their interests in a context where the legal framework discriminates against them? Contrary to the existing research that focuses on protests\, this research identifies negotiations as a strategy of the dispossessed to engage with local governments and improve their compensation arrangement. Negotiations are more frequent than petitions\, which are in turn more frequent than protests and violence. These negotiations focus on tailored local arrangements that are not specified in formal compensation policy – what I term “non-programmatic compensation.” Negotiations over non-programmatic compensation create a fragmented compensation policy regime that combines low\, stagnant\, and less locally diversified formal compensation standards with dynamic\, locality-specific\, and negotiated informal non-programmatic compensation. These findings draw on extensive fieldwork in 5 provinces (Chongqing\, Guangdong\, Jiangsu\, Zhejiang\, and Hebei)\, an original dataset of local land compensation policies\, and surveys of rural households and elites.  \n\n\n\nMeina Cai is Associate Professor of Political Science with a joint appointment of Asian/Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests are political economy\, institution and development\, and land politics and urbanization with an area focus on China. Her recent articles appear in World Development\, Journal of Peasant Studies\, Urban Studies\, and Land Use Policy. Her urbanization projects have been funded by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation among others.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-cai-meina/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T114500
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230202T190720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230202T190721Z
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SUMMARY:Jacob Eyferth - Agrarian Taylorism: Reorganizing the Rural Labor Process in Collective-Era China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jacob Eyferth \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jacob-eyferth-agrarian-taylorism-reorganizing-the-rural-labor-process-in-collective-era-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T131500
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230330T165940Z
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SUMMARY:2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests - Antitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the Intricacies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests\,” over the first two weeks of April. This year\, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States\, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law\, education in China\, US-China climate change collaborations\, antitrust law\, and blockchain technology.This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department\, the Harvard Antitrust Association\, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\nDiscussing Disability Law in ChinaMon\, April 3\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012 \n\n\n\nAntitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the IntricaciesTues\, April 4\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?Tues\, April 4\, 8:00–9:00 pm ET | WCC 1015Blockchain from a Chinese PerspectiveMon\, April 10\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2004Collaborating on Climate ChangeWed\, April 12\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2009 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-china-law-symposium-reacquainting-with-china-through-common-interests-antitrust-in-china-debunking-the-myth-and-unravelling-the-intricacies/
LOCATION:WCC 2012\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
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SUMMARY:Adrian Zenz - Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy
DESCRIPTION:Read our blog post on the event: Xinjiang Update: Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Adrian Zenz\, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies\, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation \n\n\n\nModerator: Mark C. Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs\, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSince the start of Beijing’s campaign of interning Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in its northwestern region of Xinjiang in re-education camps\, the most pertinent evidence on the nature and impact of these policies has come from public and internal (classified) government documents. However\, nearly all of this documentation was limited to latter (implementation-related) stages of the policy cycle\, leaving scholars in the dark about crucial aspects of the deliberations and decision-making processes behind the policies. Between late 2021 and mid-2022\, two important caches of new internal files have been made public\, including classified speeches by Xi Jinping and by Zhao Kezhi\, China’s former Minister of Public Security. This presentation seeks to elucidate what these new files can tell us about the evolution of Beijing’s policies in the region\, the role of the central government in the process\, and the potential scale of the campaign of mass internment. \n\n\n\nDr. Adrian Zenz is Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation\, Washington\, D.C. (non-resident). His research focus is on China’s ethnic policy and Beijing’s campaign of mass internment\, securitization and forced labor in Xinjiang\, as well as ethnic minority education and labor programs in Tibet. Dr. Zenz is the author of Tibetanness under Threat and co-editor of Mapping Amdo: Dynamics of Change. He has played a leading role in the analysis of leaked Chinese government documents\, including the “China Cables\,” the “Karakax List\,” the “Xinjiang Papers\,” and the Xinjiang Police Files. Dr. Zenz has provided expert testimony to the governments of Germany\, France\, the United Kingdom\, Canada\, and the United States. He is a member of the Association of Asian Studies. He has published opinion pieces with Foreign Policy\, Foreign Affairs\, The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/adrian-zenz-xinjiang-update-what-new-documents-tell-us-about-beijings-evolving-policy/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T210000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230330T170202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230330T170203Z
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SUMMARY:2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests - Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests\,” over the first two weeks of April. This year\, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States\, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law\, education in China\, US-China climate change collaborations\, antitrust law\, and blockchain technology.This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department\, the Harvard Antitrust Association\, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\nDiscussing Disability Law in ChinaMon\, April 3\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012 \n\n\n\nAntitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the IntricaciesTues\, April 4\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?Tues\, April 4\, 8:00–9:00 pm ET | WCC 1015Blockchain from a Chinese PerspectiveMon\, April 10\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2004Collaborating on Climate ChangeWed\, April 12\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2009 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-china-law-symposium-reacquainting-with-china-through-common-interests-double-reduction-policy-in-china-an-educational-double-edged-sword/
LOCATION:WCC 1015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T214500
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SUMMARY:Wangdao and Leadership: A Zoom Talk by Stan Shih
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Stan Shih\, Co-founder & Honorary Chairman\, Acer Group \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1rO8EfocTC27eSYbRM7jaA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wangdao-and-leadership-a-zoom-talk-by-stan-shih/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T123000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230208T152012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T152014Z
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SUMMARY:Chu Xiaobai - Jesus and Modernity in Republican China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chu Xiaobai\, Professor\, Department of Chinese Literature and Culture\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23 \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Chloë Starr\, Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology\, Yale Divinity School \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/chu-xiaobai-jesus-and-modernity-in-republican-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:20230405T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T131500
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230201T160710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T212744Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yan Xuetong - US-China Competition in the Coming Decade
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yan Xuetong\, Dean\, Institute of International Relations\, Tsinghua University \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Stephen M. Walt\, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H0JzdYljR3i0m2jLjBgakQ \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yan Xuetong – US-China Competition in the Coming Decade”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-yan-xuetong/
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:20230405T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230330T163550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230330T163552Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Ross: ​Wedge Strategies and Alliance Politics: Chinese Coercion and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Robert S. Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston CollegeModerator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik\, and Yunli Lou Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Victor and William Fung Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk examines China’s wedge strategy toward the U.S.-Philippine alliance during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III. Although the Philippine-China sovereignty dispute was the proximate cause of Chinese coercion\, it does not explain Chinese policy. Chinese policy evolution and the writings of Chinese scholars and think-tank analysts make clear that China’s foremost concern was that the Philippine’s defense cooperation with the United States in support of its sovereignty claims contributed to the U.S. “pivot” to Asia and to U.S. “containment” of China. China used its military and economic capabilities to undermine Philippine confidence in U.S. support and to weaken the Philippine economy\, thus driving a wedge between the Philippines and the United States and undermining the U.S. challenge to Chinese security. After the Philippines adjusted it alignment between China and the United States\, China eased its coercion and it used economic “rewards” to consolidate Philippine realignment. The talk concludes with a brief discussion of the implications of the Marcos\, Jr.\, presidency for U.S.-China competition and regional affairs. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JX1Vr-46SSWjjb5gBD_sKg. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/robert-ross-wedge-strategies-and-alliance-politics-chinese-coercion-and-the-u-s-philippine-alliance/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230323T161910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T161911Z
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SUMMARY:Sinophone Southeast Asian Crossings:A Symposium on Nanyang Culture\, History\, and Memory
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanel 1: 2:00 – 3:20pmSpeaker: Chan Cheow Thia\, National University of Singapore\, Author of Malaysian CrossingsRespondent: Mei Nan Mingxue\, Harvard UniversityPanel 2: 3:40-5pmSpeaker: Li Zishu\, Author of The Age of GoodbyesRespondent: Jannis Jizhou Chen\, Harvard UniversityAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NC-Rw5ksTZiNT9H9_73F7w \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sinophone-southeast-asian-crossingsa-symposium-on-nanyang-culture-history-and-memory/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T131500
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
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SUMMARY:2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests - Blockchain from a Chinese Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests\,” over the first two weeks of April. This year\, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States\, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law\, education in China\, US-China climate change collaborations\, antitrust law\, and blockchain technology.This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department\, the Harvard Antitrust Association\, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\nDiscussing Disability Law in ChinaMon\, April 3\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012 \n\n\n\nAntitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the IntricaciesTues\, April 4\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?Tues\, April 4\, 8:00–9:00 pm ET | WCC 1015Blockchain from a Chinese PerspectiveMon\, April 10\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2004Collaborating on Climate ChangeWed\, April 12\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2009 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-china-law-symposium-reacquainting-with-china-through-common-interests-blockchain-from-a-chinese-perspective/
LOCATION:WCC 2004\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Nicholas Standaert - The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nicolas Standaert\, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) \n\n\n\nThe Chinese gazette as a publicly available government publication was distributed in a variety of formats since the twelfth century. Little is known\, however\, about its form and content before 1800. By looking at European sources\, this presentation shows how they offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette\, as translated by European missionaries\, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers. It thus joined a global public much earlier than so far assumed. \n\n\n\nNicolas Standaert is Professor of Sinology at KU Leuven (Belgium) (1993-) and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium (2003-). His major research interest is the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this field he has led multiple research projects on rituality\, visual culture\, historiography\, and print culture. He is the author of The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty (Brill\, 2022); The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts: Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines (Brill\, 2016); Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: Travelling Books\, Community Networks\, Intercultural Arguments (Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu\, 2012)\, among many others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-nicholas-standaert-the-chinese-gazette-in-european-sources-joining-the-global-public-in-the-early-qing-dynasty/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230410T220000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230119T141031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230702T051056Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Su Xiaobo: Urbanization and the Political Economy of Border Control in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by 瑞丽江的河水 – Own work\, CC BY-SA 4.0\, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70263825 (License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Su Xiaobo\, University of Oregon \n\n\n\nBorder cities in hinterland China have been reshaped as hotbeds of investment ever since the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). They have become new economic centers to facilitate cross-border flows between China and neighboring countries. Meanwhile\, border security remains a key political task to state authorities in these cities. Using Ruili in southern Yunnan as a case study\, this paper examines urbanization at the edge of China’s national territory and how border control\, transnational migrant management\, and industrialization are integrated into this process. On the one hand\, Ruili uses its geoeconomic advantages—proximity to Myanmar\, and attractiveness to Myanmar migrant workers—to attract domestic investment from other Chinese cities for industrial production and cross-border trade. On the other hand\, the Ruili municipal government is assigned responsibility for managing cross-border migrant flows and maintaining social stability. Economic development and border politics are intertwined to shape Ruili’s urbanization trajectory in which cross-border trade and border security play a significant role in shaping land use\, development policies\, and population management in border cities. Thus\, an analysis of the political economy of border control can shed new light on China’s urbanization at the border. \n\n\n\n ​Xiaobo Su is Professor and Head in the Department of Geography\, University of Oregon. His research interest is in border politics\, urban entrepreneurialism\, and transnational regionalization in China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-su-xiaobo/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230321T164442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T214437Z
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SUMMARY:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Series featuring Tyler Jost - Authoritarian Arming: Domestic Threats and the Origins of China’s Military Modernization
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tyler Jost\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies\, Brown University. \n\n\n\nSince the late 1980s\, China has transformed the People’s Liberation Army by expanding its budget. Existing scholarship tends to attribute the expanding defense budget to China’s economic growth and external threats. This project instead explores the role of domestic politics. In order to guard against violent removal from power\, autocrats use distributional and institutional concessions to win favor with coercive organizations\, such as the military. As such\, elevated threats to political survival — such as leader transitions or mass demonstrations —  can lead to increases in defense budgets even in the absence of changes to economic growth or external threat. The project uses original data on China’s defense budgets since the late 1970s to evaluate candidate explanations. The preliminary analysis finds support for explanations emphasizing economic growth and domestic threats\, but limited support that variation in external threats have systematically shaped China’s defense budgets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-politics-and-foreign-policy-series-featuring-tyler-jost-authoritarian-arming-domestic-threats-and-the-origins-of-chinas-military-modernization/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230323T170142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T170222Z
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SUMMARY:Beijing Olympiad: First Time as Mass Spectacle\, Second Time as Digital Ornament
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cassandra Xin Guan\, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, MIT Center for Art\, Science & Technology \n\n\n\nThe opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was notable for its spectacular deployment of the mass human ornament. In 2022\, a second Olympic opening ceremony took place amidst a global pandemic and rising geopolitical tension between China and the US. This time around the hot and noisy masses that thrilled American television viewers with their coordinated precision have vanished from the scene of representation. In documentations of the two events: one hot\, one cold; one crowded\, one empty; one bursting with life\, one eerily devoid of humanity—we see a thermal-aesthetic inversion that assigns representational values to an under-theorized historical interval between China’s first and second Olympic Games. This talk will tarry with the chronotopic form of this interval\, with\, that is\, the time-space of historical figuration. Drawing attention to the emergence of a nationalist imaginary determined by the paradox of automation\, I ask what global forces are responsible for the cooling of the mass spectacle’s hot noise\, and what happens to the efficacy of the vitalized icon when the masses exit the mass ornament? \n\n\n\nCassandra Xin Guan is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at The MIT Center for Art\, Science & Technology. She holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and was Dean’s Faculty Fellow in the Program of Science\, Technology\, Society (STS). She is currently working on two books in tandem: “Maladaptive Media: ‘Life’ and Other Works of Animation” and “Imagine There’s No Human: China in Animation.” Her writings have appeared in October\, Screen\, and Critical Inquiry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/beijing-olympiad-first-time-as-mass-spectacle-second-time-as-digital-ornament/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T123000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230330T163022Z
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SUMMARY:Yu-Yueh Tsai - Indigenous DNA as A Metaphor: Scientific Debate on the Rediscovery of Taiwanese Ancestry and Nation-Building
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yu-Yueh Tsai\, Associate Research Fellow\, Institute of Sociology\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2022-23Chair: Sheila Jasanoff\, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nThe development of genealogical science in the twenty-first century has important implications for national and racial/ethnic construction. In Taiwan\, genetic research on the origins of Taiwanese has involved racial/ethnic issues but also the dispute over Taiwan’s national identity with the People’s Republic of China\, which claims that “we have the same roots” or “blood is thicker than water.” After the end of martial law (1945-1987)\, scientific research on multi-origins and genetic makeup of Taiwanese emerged. In particular\, Marie Lin\, M.D.\, widely known as “the mother of the research on Taiwanese blood\,” and her teams have been devoted to revealing the origins of the ethnic groups in Taiwan. My research pushes the concept of co-production between science and politics (Jasanoff\, 2004) further by addressing the “nationalization of biomedicine” and the “biomedicalization of the nation”. I explore how Taiwan’s changing identity politics\, including the emergence of the new categorization of four great ethnic groups\, multiculturalism\, and Taiwanese nationalism\, has profoundly influenced genetic research on Taiwanese genealogy and how scientific findings produced in the lab have then spilled out into both Taiwan and the PRC through journals\, media\, history textbooks\, and public disputes since the 1990s. For genealogical science to play a constructive role in identity-making\, this research shows that we need to remain vigilant to genetic technology\, scientific knowledge formation\, and methodology by looking at scientists’ works and discourses through an STS perspective to extend the epistemological reflection. \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk \n\n\n\nSeating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members.Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/indigenous-dna-as-a-metaphor-scientific-debate-on-the-rediscovery-of-taiwanese-ancestry-and-nation-building/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yu-yueh-tsai-indigenous-dna-as-a-metaphor-scientific-debate-on-the-rediscovery-of-taiwanese-ancestry-and-nation-building/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T131500
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230330T162458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T225226Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Isaac Kardon - China's Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead our blog post on the event: China’s New Maritime “Rules” in Asia Could Lead to Conflict \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Isaac Kardon\, Senior Fellow\, Asia Program\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Takuhiro Ikeda\, Senior Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center; Former Vice Admiral\, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force \n\n\n\nWho makes “the rules” of international order? The international law of the sea is one of the oldest and most significant bodies of rules governing international relations — and also one of the most hotly contested. China’s maritime disputes are a crucible for the emerging international order of the 21st century. In these disputes\, China is at odds with all of its regional neighbors over how the law of the sea should govern boundaries\, resources\, and dispute resolution. At the strategic level\, disputes over navigational rules engage the United States and its allies and their interest in navigation on\, above\, and below the contested waters of East Asia. China’s claimed maritime rights and interests offer unique insights into China’s emerging vision for international rules\, the role of state sovereignty in the international order\, and the future of great power competition in the oceans and beyond. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Weatherhead Center For International Affairs \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CQmXvPNYRfuN9YBaYKMJ8w \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Isaac Kardon – China’s Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-isaac-kardon-chinas-law-of-the-sea/
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:20230412T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T131500
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230330T170511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230330T170512Z
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SUMMARY:2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests - Collaborating on Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium\, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests\,” over the first two weeks of April. This year\, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States\, ranging across the public and private sectors. The panels will feature issues on disability law\, education in China\, US-China climate change collaborations\, antitrust law\, and blockchain technology.This Symposium is cosponsored by the Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Department\, the Harvard Antitrust Association\, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Food/snacks will be provided at each speaker event. RSVP: bit.ly/CLA2023Symposium \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\nDiscussing Disability Law in ChinaMon\, April 3\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012 \n\n\n\nAntitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the IntricaciesTues\, April 4\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2012Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?Tues\, April 4\, 8:00–9:00 pm ET | WCC 1015Blockchain from a Chinese PerspectiveMon\, April 10\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2004Collaborating on Climate ChangeWed\, April 12\, 12:15–1:15 pm ET | WCC 2009 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2023-china-law-symposium-reacquainting-with-china-through-common-interests-collaborating-on-climate-change/
LOCATION:WCC 2009\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T190000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230201T180545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230201T181000Z
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SUMMARY:Mikael Bauer - Under the Gaze of Jion: Kōfukuji’s Heian Period Internal Ritual Network
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mikael Bauer\, McGill University \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mikael-bauer-under-the-gaze-of-jion-kofukujis-heian-period-internal-ritual-network/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Thompson Room\, 12 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230410T165152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T205740Z
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SUMMARY:Liu Shouying - What is Chinese-Style Modernization? Interpreting the Key Concept from the 20th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Liu Shouying\, Dean\, School of Economics\, Renmin University of China \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kWAxH7BoQ8q90TVUW8NOWQ \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Liu Shouying – What is Chinese-Style Modernization? Interpreting the Key Concept from the 20th Party Congress”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-shouying-what-is-chinese-style-modernization-interpretating-the-key-concept-from-the-20th-party-congress/
LOCATION:Room S030\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230414T155438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T225257Z
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SUMMARY:What China’s Coolest Rock Band Can Tell Us About the Nation’s Cultural Shifts
DESCRIPTION:Read our blog post on the event: What China’s Hottest Rock Band Can Tell Us About the Nation’s Cultural Shifts \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Ren Ke\, member\, Wu Tiao RenZheng Lin\, Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Associate Professor\, Sun Yat Sen UniversityYuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWu Tiao Ren (五条人) began in Guangzhou as a small\, counterculture band singing quirky lyrics in the Min dialect of Guangdong. But in 2020\, they exploded onto China’s music scene when they pulled a stunt on the national TV show “Big Band.” Instead of the more anodyne song the band had rehearsed\, on live TV they shocked the organizers with a provocative song about a kid who is languishing in jail. The band didn’t win the competition\, but their gutsy action quickly made them an internet sensation. \n\n\n\nGiven their fiercely earthy\, anti-pop act\, what’s surprising is that Wu Tiao Ren have blown up in popularity. Why does Wu Tiao Ren attract such big audiences? Aside from cutting-edge art\, do they also reflect the complex new cultural and social mechanics of today’s China?  \n\n\n\nJoin us as Ren Ke\, one of the band’s key members\, shares his perspectives with Prof. Zheng Lin from Sun Yat-sen University\, who is doing research on Wu Tiao Ren. She will share thoughts on how the band’s fiercely local rock music plays with both language and imagery\, revealing a unique\, grassroots village-in-the-city (城中村) culture that has cropped up in Guangzhou. She will explore how the culture of counterfeits (shanzhai 山寨and dakou 打口) has helped shape their art and contributed to urbanization\, and\, ultimately\, globalization in China.  \n\n\n\nHarvard Prof. Yuhua Wang will add perspectives on how this new cultural phenomenon fits into Chinese history. \n\n\n\nPoster credit: Hu Design Studio \n\n\n\n\n\nLecture available on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/xl2tbo7n_Gc. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-chinas-coolest-rock-band-can-tell-us-about-the-nations-cultural-shifts/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230417T220000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230119T141256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T221917Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Zhang Jipeng - Hukou Reform\, Return Migration\,and Implications for Urban Development in China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Zhang Jipeng\, Shandong University \n\n\n\nIn recent years\, China has made remarkable progress in Hukou reform. Based on government policy documents and our fieldwork\, we construct a quantitative measure of Hukou registration barriers in Chinese cities. First-tier and some second-tier cities set high criteria for local Hukou registration that have become more stringent over time\, while other cities have much lower requirements. Drawing on household survey data\, we show that stricter Hukou restrictions lead to a significant increase in return migration\, especially among those with rural Hukou\, low education level\, and poor health status. Finally\, we estimate the effects of further loosening Hukou restrictions\, finding that granting Hukou to migrants in lower-tier cities would increase educational attainment\, but impose fiscal strains on top-tier cities. \n\n\n\nJipeng Zhang is a Professor of Economics and a Research Fellow of the Institute of State Governance at the Shandong University. His research interests are public economics\, migration and urban development\, with a focus on China’s public finance\, Hukou reform\, and poverty alleviation resettlement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-zhang-jipeng/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T120000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230410T121537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T121538Z
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SUMMARY:Xinyu Chen - Power Market Reform Coupled with Carbon Neutral Transition in China: Status and Prospects
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Xinyu Chen\, Professor\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Alumnus (Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate) and Associate\, Harvard-China Project \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcuyqrDMrHdxuBhSsoM_QkFET4OUq2wX7.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xinyu-chen-power-market-reform-coupled-with-carbon-neutral-transition-in-china-status-and-prospects/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T144500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230412T181443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T181445Z
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SUMMARY:The Future of the U.S.-Philippines Alliance: A Conversation with Martin Romualdez\, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Required\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Martin Romualdez\, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the PhilippinesPlease join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and the Defense Project for a conversation with Martin Romualdez\, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. The Speaker will deliver remarks on the future of the U.S.-Philippines alliance\, the foreign and defense policy of the Philippines under President Marcos\, and evolving geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region. His remarks will be followed by a conversation moderated by Eric Rosenbach (Co-Director of the Belfer Center). \n\n\n\nAdvance registration is required\, and attendance is limited to current Harvard affiliates (students\, staff\, faculty\, fellows) who are Harvard ID holders. Confirmed attendees will receive a confirmation email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-future-of-the-u-s-philippines-alliance-a-conversation-with-martin-romualdez-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives-of-the-philippines/
LOCATION:Wexner W-434 A.B\, 19 Eliot St\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230421T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T184414
CREATED:20230413T145444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230702T041733Z
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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Generative AI for East Asian Studies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop introduces the use of generative AI. Generative AI refers to a category of artificial intelligence algorithms that generate new outputs based on data. Unlike traditional AI systems that recognize patterns and make predictions\, generative AI can create new content in the form of texts as well as images and audio. It enables one to work across languages (e.g.\, asking for answers in English about a text in classical Chinese). The workshop will cover the theory behind it\, the common misconceptions about it\, and showcase several tools. We will offer use case demonstrations for summarization\, data cleaning\, and visualization. Use cases may involve Chinese texts\, but the techniques can be applied to across East Asian Studies. Organized by the Digital China Initiative of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and China Biographical Database project. \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person event that will not be recorded or live-streamed. \n\n\n\nWe recommend that attendees register for a ChatGPT account: (https://chat.openai.com/chat). You can also use its alternatives\, such as Microsoft New Bing\, Google Bard\, Notion AI\, etc.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/an-introduction-to-generative-ai-for-east-asian-studies/
LOCATION:Yenching Auditorium\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Meimei Zhang - Immortalizing the Ephemeral: Qin Inscriptions from the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Meimei Zhang\, Occidental College \n\n\n\nThis paper examines the Song dynasty literati’s ming 銘 inscriptions on the qin 琴\, a seven-string plucked instrument that is also known as zither or guqin. The tradition of inscribing musical instruments can be traced back to bronze bells and chime stones in the Shang and Zhou dynasties\, which bore pithy messages primarily functioning as historiographical and musicological records. From the Tang dynasty onward\, with the qin featuring prominently in the private sphere of literati\, inscriptions on the qin became a form of literary marginalia—an innovation that they used to test literary skills\, engage with the material contingency of the instrument\, and inquire into the essence of music and sound. By mapping out the thematic and stylistic typology of these writings\, this paper argues that qin inscriptionsconstituted a site in which theorizations and interpretations of the core discourses on music and its connoisseurship\, zhiyin (one who knows the tone) and ganying (correlative resonance)\, were made available from the variegated perspectives of inter-human\, human-object\, object-cosmos\, or human-cosmos relationships. By employing and playing with a repertoire of literary rhetoric and philosophical discussions\, Song authors celebrated qin’s distinctive musicality and materiality in inscriptions not only as public implements\, but also as biographical objects\, music relics from the high antiquity\, and philosophical emblems that specified ways of thinking with the qin and its sound. \n\n\n\nMeimei Zhang is Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at Occidental College. Her research interests include literary representations of music and sound\, social and cultural history of musical instruments\, poetics of money\, and the intersections of literature and Buddhism. She is currently preparing a monograph\, tentatively entitled The Qin and the Changing Literati Soundscape of Song Dynasty China\, which employs an interdisciplinary range of object\, sound\, and literary theories to investigate the Song literati’s literary representation of the qin (the seven-string Chinese zither)\, and how thinkers during this period shifted their world engagement with questions of perception\, embodiment\, and sociality away from the dominant paradigm of vision towards a thinking of circulation and shared atmospheres of sound. Her writings will be featured in the forthcoming Journal of Song-Yuan Studies and the Journal of American Oriental Studies. Her work has been supported by the CUHK-CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies\, etc. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctceqgqz0qE9wWndTTTCWX-cSb1WQkEXT8 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-meimei-zhang-immortalizing-the-ephemeral-qin-inscriptions-from-the-song-dynasty-960-1279/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series featuring Leif Johnson - Building infrastructure\, building the urban: Migrant labor in a Shanghai fiber-optic reconstruction project
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Leif Johnson\, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University \n\n\n\nWhile scholars have long tracked China’s rapid infrastructural development\, the everyday labor of migrant workers in infrastructural construction has often been rendered as a natural and uncomplicated aspect of rural-urban migration. In response\, I trace the development of a long-term telecommunications infrastructure reconstruction project in Shanghai from the perspective of the workers who implement it at ground level. Like other infrastructure projects across China\, this reconstruction of the city’s fiber-optic network relies on labor drawn from a low-wage\, precarious\, and largely informal migrant workforce that is not expected to be incorporated into the city as urban residents. Through participant observation of the everyday experience of migrant men on construction sites and in dormitories\, I emphasize the gendered and classed geographies of migrant construction labor as key elements the production of high-tech infrastructure that is paradoxically central to imaginations of the city’s position as a modern world city. In the process\, I theorize the production of both technical knowledge about infrastructure and physical infrastructures themselves through ostensibly low-skilled migrant labor\, providing a novel understanding of migration policy and the spatialities of construction as key factors in Chinese urban infrastructure. \n\n\n\nLeif Johnson is assistant professor of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Trained as a geographer at the University of Kentucky\, his research centers on rural-urban migration in China\, with an emphasis on the ways that boundaries of the urban are constructed through everyday gendered practice. His current research and writing focuses on the experiences of men who migrate into the construction industry in the Yangtze river delta\, using participant-observation on infrastructure construction teams to better understand how cities are built and maintained\, and how the construction industry reinscribes borders between rural and urban space. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-leif-johnson/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Xiaotian Yin - Mantra and Icon: Verbalizing and Visualizing Sitatapatrā in Buddhist Art of Inner Asia and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xiaotian Yin\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xiaotian-yin-mantra-and-icon-verbalizing-and-visualizing-sitatapatra-in-buddhist-art-of-inner-asia-and-china/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Thompson Room\, 12 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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