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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Panel Discussion - Stevan Harrell's "An Ecological History of Modern China" 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists: Stevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Perdue\, Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJesse Rodenbiker\, Assistant Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Weller\, Professor of Anthropology\, Boston University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizer: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor of History\, Boston College \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BOeCcyb9RL2LQMD8zQwg9A \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-stevan-herrell-an-ecological-history-of-modern-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T083000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Li Zhigang: China’s New Experiments of Urban Neighborhood Governance
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Li Zhigang\, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning\, School of Urban Design\, Wuhan University\, China \n\n\n\n***This talk will be in Mandarin*** \n\n\n\nChina faces significant challenges in neighborhood governance\, particularly in old and dilapidated neighborhoods (老旧社区). In this context\, some new and experimental approaches to neighborhood governance have emerged. This talk focuses on three representative cases: Jinsong in Beijing\, and Huajin and Xima in Wuhan. I argue that the governance restructuring in these communities has been experimental and has been driven primarily by grassroots governments. Their objectives include addressing the service and resource deficiencies faced by residents and bolstering the influence of the CCP at the grassroots level. By using a variety of approaches to integrate both market and social forces\, the state has articulated the new concept of a ‘complete community’. In essence\, these experiments epitomize ‘state entrepreneurism’\, which on one hand stresses the capitalization of space and on the other\, advocates for the socialization of capital. \n\n\n\nLi Zhigang is a professor of urban studies and planning at the School of Urban Design\, Wuhan University\, China. He also serves as the dean of this school. Before 2015\, Prof Li worked at the School of Geography and Planning\, Sun Yat-sen University\, Guangzhou\, China. As an urban scholar\, geographer\, and planner\, Professor Li works on the socio-spatial transformation of urban China\, with a focus on such topics as neighbourhoods\, migration\, health\, and related planning issues. His recent work concentrates on the effects of China’s neighbourhood transformation and related planning as well as governance issues. Professor Li is serving as the editor of some top journals such as the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research\, Urban Studies\, etc.. He has been the principal investigator of five research projects funded by China’s NFC\, including one Excellent Youth Foundation. Prof Li has been awarded China’s ‘National Award for Young Geographers’ and ‘National Award for Young Planners’. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-li-zhigang-chinas-new-experiments-of-urban-neighborhood-governance/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T113000
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare’s Influence on Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tianhu Hao\, Zhejiang University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/discussant: David Damrosch\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nShakespeare has had an important influence upon modern Chinese literature and culture since the 1830s\, which constitutes a significant part of Shakespeare’s global impact. Based on the rich sources recently accessible in Chinese and English databases\, this article reconsiders Shakespeare’s impact on modern China\, especially in the indigenization of the sonnet and the rise of huaju (spoken drama). The abundant\, newly discovered data reveal Shakespeare’s multi-faceted contributions to the shaping of modern Chinese literature and culture. This is a modest effort to revise literary\, theatrical\, and cultural histories. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/shakespeares-influence-on-modern-chinese-literature-and-culture/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shakespeares-influence-on-modern-chinese-literature-and-culture/
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:20231005T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T131500
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
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SUMMARY:Reporting on China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: David Barboza\, Co-founder of The Wire and WireScreen \n\n\n\nDavid Barboza is the co-founder of The Wire Digital Inc.\, a New York-based news and data platform focused on China and global supply chains. The startup consists of a digital weekly news magazine\, called The Wire\, and a data and software analytics platform named WireScreen. Previously\, Barboza was a longtime business reporter and foreign correspondent at The New York Times. In 2013\, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting “for his striking exposure of corruption at high levels of the Chinese government\, including billions in secret wealth owned by relatives of the prime minister\, well-documented work published in the face of heavy pressure from the Chinese officials.” He was also part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting\, for his coverage of Apple’s operations in China. That same year\, he won a George Polk Award for foreign reporting. This event will be held in-person only and will not be recorded. Co-sponsored by the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Lunch will be served. \n\n\n\nRSVP at this link.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/reporting-on-china/
LOCATION:Rubenstein 414AB\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T160000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yao Yang - China’s New Era: Reversing the Dire Consequences of 40 Years of Reform
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yao Yang\, Dean\, National School of Development at Peking University \n\n\n\nForty years of reform and opening up have resulted in rapid growth and rising living standards for many Chinese\, but also left a series of dire consequences.  Professor YAO Yang\, Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University\, explains how the economic agenda of President Xi Jinping is intended to address and reverse some of these consequences.  While these measures may suppress the economy and trigger a near-term slowdown\, the hope is that if such measures succeed\, the Chinese economy will emerge healthier\, more equitable\, and more innovative.   \n\n\n\nAlso available via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_alPhgQMyS2WwO3RR8hnrYA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-yao-yang-chinas-new-era-reversing-the-dire-consequences-of-40-years-of-reform/
LOCATION:WCC 1010\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Mass. Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
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SUMMARY:Harvard Law School Symposium: Economic Sanctions and National Security
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis symposium features Professor Ashley Deeks\, former Associate White House Counsel and former Deputy legal Adviser to the U.S. National Security Council; and Ambassador C.J. Mahoney\, Deputy General Counsel of International Trade and Azure at Microsoft\, and former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. The symposium will also feature a host of leading academics\, attorneys\, and regulators who are operating at the intersection of economic sanctions and national security\, including a panel discussing sanctions on China and Russia. Lunch and refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n9:30 – 10:00 | Registration and Welcome from the Editors \n\n\n\n10:00 – 11:00 | Panel: The Private World of U.S. Economic Sanctions \n\n\n\n\nMaryam Jamshidi\, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School\n\n\n\nLawrence Scheinert\, Associate Director of Compliance and Enforcement at the Office of Foreign Assets Control\, Department of the Treasury\n\n\n\n\n11:15 – 12:15 | Panel: The Past\, Present\, and Future of Sanctions \n\n\n\n\nElena Chachko\, Assistant Professor at Berkeley Law\n\n\n\nStephanie Connor\, Assistant Chief Counsel for Foreign Assets Control at the U.S. Department of the Treasury\n\n\n\nJuan Zarate\, Global Co-Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer of K2 Integrity\, Former Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the Department of the Treasury\n\n\n\nBrandon Van Grack\, Co-Chair of National Security and Global Risk & Crisis Management at Morrison Foerster\n\n\n\nModerated by Katniss Li\, SJD Candidate at Harvard Law School\n\n\n\n\n12:30 – 1:45 | Keynote Lunch: Sanctions and National Security \n\n\n\n\nSpeech by Professor Ashley Deeks\, Class of 1948 Professor of Scholarly Research in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law; former Associate White House Counsel; former Deputy Legal Adviser to the U.S. National Security Counsel\n\n\n\nSpeech by Ambassador C.J. Mahoney\, Deputy General Counsel\, International Trade and Azure at Microsoft; Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative\n\n\n\n\n2:00 – 3:00 | Panel: Regional Sanctions Regimes – Russia and China \n\n\n\n\nJim Mullinax\, Senior Advisor to the Sanctions Coordinator\, U.S. State Department\n\n\n\nRachel Alpert\, Co-Chair of National Security\, Sanctions\, and Export Control at Jenner & Block\n\n\n\nAdam Smith\, Co-Chair of the International Trade Practice Group at Gibson\, Dunn & Crutcher\n\n\n\nModerated by Chris Mirasola\, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School\n\n\n\n\n3:15 – 4:15 | Panel: Corporate Compliance and Sanctions \n\n\n\n\nEd Peartree\, Vice President\, Head of Export Control at Airbus\n\n\n\nBryce Bittner\, Managing Counsel\, International Trade Legal at McKinsey & Co.\n\n\n\nJacques Singer-Emery\, Trial Attorney\, Counterintelligence and Export Controls Section\, Department of Justice National Security Division\n\n\n\nShoba Pillay\, Co-Chair of Data Privacy and Cybersecurity at Jenner & Block\n\n\n\nRobert Peri\, Managing Director\, Sanctions Compliance at Citi\n\n\n\nModerated by Patrick E. McDonnell\, Associate – National Security and Privacy + Data Security at Morrison Foerster\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-law-school-symposium-economic-sanctions-and-national-security/
LOCATION:WCC 2036 Milstein East A\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
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SUMMARY:Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
DESCRIPTION:reserve a tour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring Public Visits\, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. \n\n\n\nCAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour\, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators\, hailing from graduate programs across the university as well as Harvard College. \n\n\n\nCurrently installed in CAMLab Cave\, the Cave Dance and Embodied Architecture projects activate the narrative\, cultural\, and sensorial potentials of interpreting historical data. \n\n\n\nCave Dance integrates thousands of depictions of dance from Dunhuang with motion capture of trained dancers\, who performed movements preserved by textual records. With this human-computer collaborative choreography as its foundation\, the Cave Dance installation instantiates movement sequences within ethereal motifs and enacts the “bodiless body\,” a state of transcendence epitomized by celestial dancers at Dunhuang. \n\n\n\nCombining photogrammetry with procedural generation and CGI\, Embodied Architecture presents the world’s most comprehensive 3D model of the Yingxian pagoda\, the world’s tallest timber structure. Serving as a stage for opening a cosmological understanding\, the installation progressively unfolds the multisensory experience that the pagoda embodies—elucidating the lens of ritual practice. \n\n\n\nAdvanced reservations are required\, and all are welcome. Tickets are pay-as-you-wish\, with $10.00 suggested for non-Harvard visitors. Proceeds directly support CAMLab’s future research and projects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-camlab-fall-public-visits/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T170208Z
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SUMMARY:Chinese Humanities 2033: New Visions\, New Directions — A Two-Day Conference
DESCRIPTION:Detailed information\, including an agenda\, may be accessed at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lu4_McB0A-USCiJ5uTN7ZyKg-9QgQwc7/view?usp=drive_link \n\n\n\nPanelists:Mian Chen\, Northwestern UniversitySean Xiangjun Feng\, University of British ColumbiaBrendan Galipeau\, National Tsing Hua UniversityTenggeer Hao\, Columbia UniversityKeren He\, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillYizhou Huang\, Saint Louis UniversityMaciej Kurzynski\, Lingnan UniversityMelody Yunzi\, Li University of HoustonDylan Suher\, University of Hong KongMengyuan Tian\, University of CambridgeYingchuan Yang\, Columbia UniversiryWayne C. F. Yeung\, University of Denver \n\n\n\nKeynote Speaker:Ying Qian\, Columbia University \n\n\n\nSpecial Guests: Yusheng Wang\, Lunghwa University of Science and TechnologyLiu Hsiu-mei\, National Dong-hwa University \n\n\n\nOrganizers:David Der-wei WangKaren ThornberJie LiYedong Sh-ChenMichael O’Krent \n\n\n\nSponsors: Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department of Comparative Literature Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-humanities-2033-new-visions-new-directions-a-two-day-conference/
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:20231006T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - People and Their Virtue: "Man in Black" by Wang Bing
DESCRIPTION:order tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWang Bing’s first work made outside of China\, this one-hour featurette boldly announces a new phase in the director’s career. Shot at the historic Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris\, it stages a biographical encounter with eighty-six-year-old modern classical composer Wang Xilin\, whose anti-Communist sentiments made him the target of intense persecution and abuse during the Cultural Revolution. Standing naked against the empty theater’s distressed architecture\, the artist proceeds to sing\, play piano\, contort his scarred body into odd shapes\, and eventually recount the torture he endured at the hands of Mao’s army—all while excerpts from his compositions erupt in irregular measures on the soundtrack. Working with a French crew that includes cinematographer Caroline Champetier and editor Claire Atherton\, Wang adopts a newly liberated style in which the fluidity of the camera and montage acts as a fitting frame for the vivid expression of historical trauma. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-people-and-their-virtue-man-in-black-by-wang-bing/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
CREATED:20231004T135725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T135726Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
DESCRIPTION:reserve a tour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring Public Visits\, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. \n\n\n\nCAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour\, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators\, hailing from graduate programs across the university as well as Harvard College. \n\n\n\nCurrently installed in CAMLab Cave\, the Cave Dance and Embodied Architecture projects activate the narrative\, cultural\, and sensorial potentials of interpreting historical data. \n\n\n\nCave Dance integrates thousands of depictions of dance from Dunhuang with motion capture of trained dancers\, who performed movements preserved by textual records. With this human-computer collaborative choreography as its foundation\, the Cave Dance installation instantiates movement sequences within ethereal motifs and enacts the “bodiless body\,” a state of transcendence epitomized by celestial dancers at Dunhuang. \n\n\n\nCombining photogrammetry with procedural generation and CGI\, Embodied Architecture presents the world’s most comprehensive 3D model of the Yingxian pagoda\, the world’s tallest timber structure. Serving as a stage for opening a cosmological understanding\, the installation progressively unfolds the multisensory experience that the pagoda embodies—elucidating the lens of ritual practice. \n\n\n\nAdvanced reservations are required\, and all are welcome. Tickets are pay-as-you-wish\, with $10.00 suggested for non-Harvard visitors. Proceeds directly support CAMLab’s future research and projects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-camlab-fall-public-visits-2/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T220000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
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SUMMARY:Film Screening - People and Their Virtue: "Youth (Spring)" by Wang Bing
DESCRIPTION:order tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShot between 2014 and 2019 and compiled from 2\,600 hours of footage\, Wang Bing’s latest opus centers on young migrant laborers in Zhili\, an industrial town near Shanghai that is home to thousands of privately-run garment workshops. Employing his trademark long takes and fixed camera setups\, Wang contrasts routine days of sewing\, stitching and scissoring with bustling street scenes and after-hours sequences set in the workers’ cramped living quarters\, chancing upon dramas that inevitably emerge from such a repetitive\, cloistered and threadbare existence. While Zhili’s privatized structure and incentive-based production model allows for certain advantages over the kind of centrally governed factories seen in earlier Wang films like West of the Tracks (2002)\, it also leaves employees at the mercy of predatory managers\, a situation the director depicts as an endless tug-of-war for better pay. With textbook rigor\, Wang captures a new economic reality that\, for all it promises\, has only fostered a new form of exploitation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-people-and-their-virtue-youth-spring-by-wang-bing/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T100000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Andrew Grant: Abject Space in Redevelopment: Urban Tibetans in Xining’s Old City Center
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Andrew Grant\, University of Tampa \n\n\n\nExamining Xining\, the capital of Qinghai Province\, this talk argues that urban redevelopment and greenfield expansion have devalued the older urban areas in which Tibetans live.  Through over twenty months of fieldwork between 2012 and 2017\, I found that un-redeveloped urban places were becoming increasingly associated with crime\, grime\, and minoritized ethnic populations. These associations were driven by a complex combination of personal desires for modern urban amenities\, pre-existing social tensions\, and state-driven programs that drove and exacerbated new forms of social evaluation. \n\n\n\nAndrew Grant is an Assistant Professor of Geography at University of Tampa. His research contributes to discussions about the role of urbanization\, borders\, and other materials in global geopolitics and the politics of marginalized groups. His studies have included the urban geopolitics of rural-to-urban migration amid state-led urbanization drives on the Tibetan Plateau\, complications between soft power and security at China’s Inner Asian borders\, and the geopolitics of China’s Belt and Road Initiative cartography. His research is grounded in qualitative methods including ethnography\, interviews\, and textual analysis. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-andrew-grant-abject-space-in-redevelopment-urban-tibetans-in-xinings-old-city-center/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Diachronic Analysis of Human-Object Relations: A Case Study of the Kavinyangang Ancestral Pots\, Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chih-Hua Chiang\, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Matthew Liebmann\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/diachronic-analysis-of-human-object-relations/ \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/diachronic-analysis-of-human-object-relations-a-case-study-of-the-kavinyangang-ancestral-pots-taiwan/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Tamar Grozwald Ozery - Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tamar Groswald Ozery\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Asian Studies\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:William P. Alford (moderator)\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law\, Director of East Asian Legal Studies\, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability\, Harvard Law SchoolRui Guo\, Visiting Scholar\, East Asian Legal Studies\, Harvard Law SchoolNicholas C. Howson\, Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law\, University of Michigan Law SchoolMariana Pargendler\, Professor\, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School; Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School (effective July 2024)Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren MacFarlanAssociate Professor\, Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, Harvard Business School \n\n\n\nIn her new book\, Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, Tamar Groswald Ozery takes a law & political economy approach to deconstruct the role of law in China’s market development since 1978. \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a book launch event featuring a panel of international corporate governance and China law experts. Professor Groswald Ozery\, Professor Rithmire\, and Dr. Guo will join Professor Alford in person. Professor Howson and Professor Pargendler will participate via Zoom. \n\n\n\nDiscussion will mainly focus on the role of formal law in governing markets during the “Legalized Politicization Era” (2010–present)\, the present era of market development in China. Covered extensively in the book\, the present era reveals a shift in China’s political–economic equilibrium. The authorities over governing markets are being reconfigured to handle the consequences of prior era state capitalism. Such reconfiguration of market governance is achieved through the mobilization of legal institutions in two main directions: intensifying the presence of the regulatory state in the market and shifting substantial market governance powers directly to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). \n\n\n\nBoxed lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\nTamar Groswald Ozery is an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Israel. Previously\, she was a Grotius Fellow (Michigan Law)\, a Research & Teaching Fellow (Harvard Law)\, and the editor of the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. Her published scholarly works focus on Chinese corporate governance\, cross-border investments\, and party-state market relations. She is a frequent commentator on China’s legal system\, political economy\, and global economic integration; and has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Prior to academia\, she spearheaded the China department of a leading Israeli law firm. \n\n\n\nWilliam P. Alford (J.D. 1977) is Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law at Harvard Law School\, where he is also Director of East Asian Legal Studies\, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability\, and Senior Advisor for Graduate and International Legal Studies. His work on law and legal history in East Asia includes To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization; Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia; 残疾人法律保障机制研究 (A Study of Legal Mechanisms to Protect Persons with Disabilities); Prospects for the Professions in China; Taiwan and International Human Rights; and An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China. \n\n\n\nRui Guo (S.J.D. 2013) is a Visiting Scholar at the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School. His research centers on the rise of Chinese State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) and their intricate economic\, social\, and political implications. He earned his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and holds both an L.L.B and L.L.M from the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. Alongside his interests in corporate law\, he also explores various legal education subjects in the United States and China\, including disability law and AI ethics. \n\n\n\nNicholas C. Howson is the Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is a former partner of Paul\, Weiss\, Rifkind\, Wharton & Garrison LLP who worked out of the firm’s New York\, Paris\, London\, and Beijing offices\, and as a managing partner of the firm’s Asia Practice based in the Chinese capital. Professor Howson has spent many years living in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)\, both as a scholar and as a practicing lawyer based in Beijing. Professor Howson writes and lectures widely on Chinese law topics\, focusing on Chinese corporate law and securities regulation\, the Chinese capital markets\, Chinese legal history\, and the development of constitutionalism in Greater China. He acts as a Chinese law expert or party advocate in U.S. and international litigation and/or U.S. government enforcement actions. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and a designated foreign arbitrator for both the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission in Beijing and the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. \n\n\n\nMariana Pargendler will join Harvard Law School as a Professor of Law\, effective July 1\, 2024. She is currently a professor at FGV Sao Paulo Law School\, where she coordinates the Nucleus of Law\, Economics\, and Governance (NuDEG)\, and is also Global Associate Professor of Law at New York University (NYU) School of Law. Professor Pargendler received a J.S.D. from Yale Law School\, where she was a fellow researcher at the Olin Center for Studies in Law\, Economics\, and Public Policy as well as a research fellow at the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. Her academic research focuses on the areas of contract law\, corporate law\, and corporate governance\, from an economic and comparative perspective. Her papers have been published in renowned national and international journals\, and she is co-author of the third edition of the book The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach (Oxford University Press\, 2017)\, which has been translated into several languages. \n\n\n\nMeg Rithmire is the F. Warren MacFarlan associate professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Rithmire holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University\, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her first book\, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, examines the role of land politics\, urban governments\, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. Her new book investigates the relationship between capital and the state and globalization in Asia\, comparing China\, Malaysia\, and Indonesia from the early 1980s to the present. The book\, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, examines how governments attempt to discipline business and\, second\, how business adapts to different methods of state control. Her work also focuses on China’s role in the world\, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries\, especially the United States.   \n\n\n\nSponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University\, and the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tamar-grozwald-ozery-law-and-political-economy-in-china-the-role-of-law-in-corporate-governance-and-market-growth/
LOCATION:WCC 2036 Milstein East A\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Erik Mueggler - Writing\, Slavery\, and Indigenous Sovereignty in Southwest China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Erik Mueggler\, Professor Anthropology\, University of Michigan \n\n\n\nImperial China managed its border regions by negotiating power with indigenous chieftains. Hereditary chieftains were allowed sovereignty over indigenous domains in exchange for keeping the peace and lending their militias to imperial campaigns. Ming and Qing colonialism in the Southwest took the form of a long\, staggered process of abolishing indigenous chiefly houses. Yet such houses often recreated themselves\, seizing partial sovereignty over smaller domains. This talk follows the diary of an aspiring chieftain adopted into a twice-abolished\, Yi-ethnicity chiefly house in the late Qing. A stranger to the house\, the adopted chieftain used his daily account to probe its relational ecology—relations among the former chieftain’s wives\, concubines\, and daughters\, the eighteen elite enslaved bondsmen who acted as the house’s agents\, the forty-odd domestic slaves who attended the house’s elites\, and the corpse of the former chieftain lying in his chambers waiting for the chiefly succession to be decided. I show how the adopted chieftain used his written diary as a tool for divination: for probing the undercurrents of collective intention among the house’s enslaved residents that would ultimately decide whether the house would make room for him or kill him. \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP to attend the lecture here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/contemporary-chinese-culture-lecture-tickets-720028894807 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/erik-mueggler-writing-slavery-and-indigenous-sovereignty-in-southwest-china/
LOCATION:Colloquium 101\, Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering\, 601 Commonwealth Ave.\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Meg Rithmire - The Past\, Present\, and Future of State - Business Relations in China: Learning from Comparisons
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration\, Harvard Business School. \n\n\n\nOver the last decade\, China has gone from high rates of economic growth with private sector participation to state crackdowns on business and slowing growth\, if not economic stagnation or crisis. Prof. Rithmire will draw on her research on relationships between the private sector and the party-state to explain the long history of capitalism and capitalists in China\, and discuss what can be gained from comparing China’s political economy. Is China like Japan\, bound for decades of macroeconomic stagnation\, or like Suharto’s Indonesia\, one economic crisis away from dissolution? \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/meg-rithmire-the-past-present-and-future-of-state-business-relations-in-china-learning-from-comparisons/
LOCATION:Rubenstein 414AB\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Conference: China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) at Ten
DESCRIPTION:zoom link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information\, including a complete agenda and speaker list\, visit: https://www.bu.edu/asian/2023/09/13/conference-chinas-belt-road-initiative-bri-at-ten-us-naval-war-college-and-bu-oct-12-13-2023/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/conference-chinas-belt-road-initiative-bri-at-ten/
LOCATION:Boston University Hillel House\, 213 State Road\, 213 Bay State Road\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Asia-Africa Relations: Its Status and Possible Trajectories
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Emmanuel K. Akyeampong\, Harvard UniversityUfrieda Ho\, Journalist and AuthorGayatri Sethi\, Educator and AuthorDuncan Yoon\, New York UniversityGeoffrey Jones\, Harvard Business SchoolAnnette Skovsted Hansen\, Aarhus UniversityIsaac Odoom\, Carleton UniversityMarlous van Waijenburg\, Harvard Business SchoolSeifudein Adem\, Doshisha UniversityLina Benabdallah\, Wake Forest UniversityMaria Adele Carrai\, New York University ShanghaiIdriss Fofana\, Harvard UniversityKumiko Makino\, Institute of Developing Economies\, Japan External Trade OrganizationXiaoyang Tang\, Tsinghua UniversityVeda Vaidyanathan\, Institute of Chinese Studies\, DelhiAnnette Lienau\, Harvard UniversityDaniel E. Agbiboa\, Harvard UniversityGaurav Desai\, University of MichiganPedro Machado\, Indiana University Bloomington \n\n\n\nFor a detailed agenda\, visit the conference web site. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-africa-relations-its-status-and-possible-trajectories/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T180000
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SUMMARY:Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
DESCRIPTION:reserve a tour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring Public Visits\, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. \n\n\n\nCAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour\, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators\, hailing from graduate programs across the university as well as Harvard College. \n\n\n\nCurrently installed in CAMLab Cave\, the Cave Dance and Embodied Architecture projects activate the narrative\, cultural\, and sensorial potentials of interpreting historical data. \n\n\n\nCave Dance integrates thousands of depictions of dance from Dunhuang with motion capture of trained dancers\, who performed movements preserved by textual records. With this human-computer collaborative choreography as its foundation\, the Cave Dance installation instantiates movement sequences within ethereal motifs and enacts the “bodiless body\,” a state of transcendence epitomized by celestial dancers at Dunhuang. \n\n\n\nCombining photogrammetry with procedural generation and CGI\, Embodied Architecture presents the world’s most comprehensive 3D model of the Yingxian pagoda\, the world’s tallest timber structure. Serving as a stage for opening a cosmological understanding\, the installation progressively unfolds the multisensory experience that the pagoda embodies—elucidating the lens of ritual practice. \n\n\n\nAdvanced reservations are required\, and all are welcome. Tickets are pay-as-you-wish\, with $10.00 suggested for non-Harvard visitors. Proceeds directly support CAMLab’s future research and projects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-camlab-fall-public-visits-3/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T084500
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SUMMARY:China Westward: Reimagining the Interwoven Material and Cultural Histories of China\, Central Asia\, and the Himalayas
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER FOR HYBRID ZOOM ATTENDANCE – dAY ONE\n\n\n\nREGISTER FOR HYBRID ZOOM ATTENDANCE – dAY Two\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Conference: This conference will explore historical interactions between China and the “Western Regions\,” providing new insights into Chinese civilization and its global context. Experts will focus on the historical period when China was deeply engaged with the “Western Regions\,” primarily from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The “Western Regions” under discussion encompass territories from the narrow definition of the region south of Tianshan to the vast territories West of the central plain\, South Asia\, West Asia\, and even North Africa and Europe. \n\n\n\nThe conference aims to synthesize archaeological materials and historical sources\, enabling us to construct a comprehensive narrative of the interactions between China and the Western Regions throughout various historical periods. By weaving together these diverse strands of evidence\, we aim to create a nuanced and detailed depiction of this historical exchange. The panels delve into a diverse range of fascinating subjects\, providing a thorough exploration of this enthralling field. Topics include: Dance and Music\, Tombs and Visions of the Afterlife\, New Cosmology\, Visual Astrology\, Caves and Visions\, as well as Stupa and Reliquary.  \n\n\n\nOur distinguished speakers will provide insights into diverse aspects of Chinese Studies\, Westward Chinese development\, and the profound connections between China and its adjacent regions. Seize this exceptional opportunity to network with scholars\, students\, and enthusiasts who harbor a deep passion for exploring China’s vast cultural and historical tapestry.  \n\n\n\nWe warmly invite you to join us for this vibrant and enlightening two-day symposium. Your presence and active engagement will undeniably enhance the depth and richness of our discussions.  \n\n\n\nDay 1 — Saturday\, October 14: GROUND/NETWORK/TRANSMISSION\n\n\n\n8:45 AM – 9:00 AM — Opening RemarksSpeakers: Mark Wu\, Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp\, Eugene Y. Wang \n\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:30 AM — Panel 1 – Transmission\, Exchange\, and Diffusion: Insights from Tibet\, China\, and SogdianaChair: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp\, Discussant: Deborah Klimburg-SalterPanelists: Wei Huo (remote)\, Cuilan Liu\, Matteo Campareti (remote) \n\n\n\nShort 10-minute break \n\n\n\n10:40 AM – 12:10 PM — Panel 2 – Sculpting Faith\, Painting Devotion: Buddhist Narratives and Visual Transmissions from South to East AsiaChair: Michelle McCoy\, Discussant: Monika ZinPanelists: Li Ling (remote)\, Nobuyoshi Yamabe\, Xuecheng Shao \n\n\n\n12:10 PM – 1:10 PM — Lunch break \n\n\n\n1:10 PM – 2:40 PM — Panel 3 – Unveiling Tibetan Antiquity: Rituals\, Civilizations\, and Cultural CrossroadsChair: Deborah Klimburg-Salter\, Discussant: Cuilan LiuPanelists: Mark Aldenderfer\, Charles Ramble\, Shuai Li \n\n\n\n3:00 PM – 4:30 PM — Panel 4 – Navigating Celestial Bodies: Astrology\, Cosmology\, and Artistic ExpressionChair: Monika Zin\, Discussant: Michael NortonPanelists: Matthew P. Canepa\, Michelle McCoy\, Jeffrey Kotyk \n\n\n\nDay 2 — Sunday\, October 15: (IM)MATERIAL TOPOGRAPHIES/MENTAL OR CONCEPT MAPS\n\n\n\n9:00 AM – 10:30 AM — Panel 5 – Rock as Canvas: Pictorial Expressions of Divinity in Cliffs and Manmade GrottoesChair: Michael Norton\, Discussant: Michelle McCoyPanelists: Monika Zin\, Sophie Xiaofei Lei\, Jisheng Xie (remote) \n\n\n\nShort 10-minute break \n\n\n\n10:40 AM – 12:10 PM — Panel 6 – Mortality and Transcendence: Relationships Between Stupa\, Funerary Practices\, and Monastic PaintingChair: Eugene Y. Wang\, Discussant: Jeffrey KotykPanelists: Tao Tong (remote)\, Chai Yee Leow\, Deborah Klimburg-Salter \n\n\n\n12:10 PM – 12:20PM — Closing RemarksSpeakers: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp\, Eugene Y. Wang \n\n\n\nSpeakers and their affiliations:Prof. Eugene Y. Wang (Harvard University)Prof. Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp (Harvard University)Prof. Mark Aldenderfer (University of California Merced)Prof. Matthew P. Canepa (University of California)Dr. Matteo Compareti (Capital Normal University\, Beijing)Prof. Wei Huo (Sichuan University)Prof. Deborah Klimburg-Salter (University of Vienna)Prof. Jeffrey Kotyk (Università di Bologna)Sophie Xiaofei Lei (Harvard University)Dr. Chai Yee Leow (Harvard University)Prof. Ling Li (Sichuan University)Dr. Shuai Li (Harvard University)Dr. Cuilan Liu (University of Pittsburgh)Dr. Michelle McCoy (University of Pittsburgh)Michael Norton (Harvard University)Prof. Charles Ramble (EPHE-PSL\, CRCAO)Dr. Xuecheng Shao (Shanghai International Studies University)Dr. Tao Tong (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)Prof. Jisheng Xie (Zhejiang University)Prof. Mark Wu (Harvard University)Prof. Nobuyoshi Yamabe (Waseda University)Prof. Monika Zin (University of Leipzig) \n\n\n\nThis conference is generously supported by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies\, the Department of History of Art and Architecture\, the Department of South Asian Studies\, the Harvard FAS CAMLab\, and the Harvard China Fund. \n\n\n\nRegister for Day One on Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J7dxfSV7Rmiyi6pNGH6yEw#/registrationRegister for Day Two on Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OkEEsg1cRJyiagJK3hr81A \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-westward-conference/
LOCATION:Sackler Building Auditorium\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
DESCRIPTION:reserve a tour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring Public Visits\, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. \n\n\n\nCAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour\, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators\, hailing from graduate programs across the university as well as Harvard College. \n\n\n\nCurrently installed in CAMLab Cave\, the Cave Dance and Embodied Architecture projects activate the narrative\, cultural\, and sensorial potentials of interpreting historical data. \n\n\n\nCave Dance integrates thousands of depictions of dance from Dunhuang with motion capture of trained dancers\, who performed movements preserved by textual records. With this human-computer collaborative choreography as its foundation\, the Cave Dance installation instantiates movement sequences within ethereal motifs and enacts the “bodiless body\,” a state of transcendence epitomized by celestial dancers at Dunhuang. \n\n\n\nCombining photogrammetry with procedural generation and CGI\, Embodied Architecture presents the world’s most comprehensive 3D model of the Yingxian pagoda\, the world’s tallest timber structure. Serving as a stage for opening a cosmological understanding\, the installation progressively unfolds the multisensory experience that the pagoda embodies—elucidating the lens of ritual practice. \n\n\n\nAdvanced reservations are required\, and all are welcome. Tickets are pay-as-you-wish\, with $10.00 suggested for non-Harvard visitors. Proceeds directly support CAMLab’s future research and projects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-camlab-fall-public-visits-4/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231016T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231016T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
CREATED:20230918T201740Z
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Cheng-hua Wang - What Handscroll Landscape Painting Could Convey: Format\, Structure\, and the Discourse on Huayi in the Late Northern Song Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cheng-hua Wang\, Associate Professor\, Princeton University \n\n\n\nFocusing on landscape paintings in the handscroll format from the tenth to the twelfth century\, this talk aims to present two structural innovations that took place in the late eleventh century seen in a few examples—from homogeneous to heterogeneous spaces and from mono to poly-scenic views. Along with these transformations in the late Northern Song (960–1127)\, the landscape handscroll format became an independent and full-fledged medium that diverged from the landscape hanging scroll in terms of compositional design\, pictorial goal\, and viewing practice. These in turn also opened up new possibilities for emotional expression\, lyrical symbolism\, and political connotations. The examples discussed include Old Trees\, Level Distance (Shuse pingyuan) by Guo Xi and Fishing Village in Light Snow (Yucun xiaoxue) by Wang Shen. \n\n\n\nThe above discussion links the materiality and expressive potentiality of the handscroll landscape with its development as an independent format. This talk will also explore the formats of landscape painting by the tenth century\, a pre-history of handscroll landscape painting\, and the cultural context of the late eleventh century in which the concept of huayi (pictorial intent) featured prominently in the discourse on painting. While huayi\, as a standard term that referred to the meanings or connotations of painting\, probably emerged in the late Tang dynasty (618–906)\, it stands in the late Northern Song at the intersection of different art-historical threads that await further investigation. By using texts such as Guo Xi’s Lofty Ideal of Forests and Streams (Linquan gaozhi)\, it is hoped in this talk that the late Northern Song art world that fostered a high level of visual literacy along with rich and sophisticated signification in art can be recapitulated using the examples of handscroll landscape painting given above. \n\n\n\nCheng-hua Wang\, a specialist in Chinese painting and visual culture\, is Associate Professor at Princeton University. She has published widely in both Chinese and English. Two anthologies of her articles in Chinese have been published respectively in 2011 and 2020. Her English-language publications have appeared in different journals and edited volumes\, and an anthology of some of these articles translated into Chinese will come out next year. In addition\, her book manuscript Up the River of Time: The Qingming Shanghe Painting Tradition in China is currently under review. It tackles issues regarding the construction of a painting tradition and cultural constellation through thematic links and the complicated interrelationship between a primordial artwork and its later reproductions from a long historical perspective. Her next book project will explore the concept of territoriality and the transformation of shanshui painting in eighteenth-century China that involved the court and Suzhou. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-cheng-hua-wang-what-handscroll-landscape-painting-could-convey-format-structure-and-the-discourse-on-huayi-in-the-late-northern-song-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:20231017T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T130000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
CREATED:20230913T131857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T192617Z
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SUMMARY:“Actually\, We Are Mongols!”: Resurgence of the Yuan Non-Han Ancestries in the Late Qing North China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Iiyama Tomoyasu\, Waseda University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/discussant: Mark Elliott\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk attempts to shed light on the largely unknown trajectories of the resurgence and evolution of Yuan non-Han ancestries in north China from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century. By exploring three relatively well documented cases of the resurgence of the Yuan non-Han ancestry\, this talk offers two tentative conclusions. First\, the commemoration of the non-Han ancestries seems to have been roused by the two-century-long Gazetteers of the Great Qing Empire compilation project\, over the course of which the state reiterated extensive surveys of local worthies\, widow chastity\, and martyred loyal subjects\, including those from the previous dynasties. Second\, the late Qing era (roughly mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth century) was one of the pivotal turning points in making of modern ethnic landscape in north China. The memory of Mongol rule authorized by the Qing official historiography have become the wellspring of the twentieth century minzu identity. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/actually-we-are-mongols-resurgence-of-the-yuan-non-han-ancestries-in-the-late-qing-north-china/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/actually-we-are-mongols-resurgence-of-the-yuan-non-han-ancestries-in-the-late-qing-north-china/
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:20231018T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231018T113000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
CREATED:20231012T164205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T164207Z
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SUMMARY:Chen Xiang - Political signaling drives China’s Pilot Emissions Trading Scheme
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Chen Xiang\, Assistant Professor\, School of International and Public Affairs\, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Alumna (Visiting Fellow) and Associate\, Harvard-China Project \n\n\n\nChina’s approach to environmental regulation relies heavily on campaign-style enforcement and blunt-force regulation. While considered effective in the short run\, this approach is often inefficient and generates unintended regulatory outcomes in the longer run. At the same time\, China continues to experiment with the use of market-based approaches that are theoretically more efficient and have the potential to facilitate sustained reductions in carbon emissions. Arguably the most high-profile example is the Guangdong Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)\, which was launched in 2013 as a national pilot scheme. We construct a synthetic control of Guangdong and analyze 51\,076 party-led newspaper reports to show that while the ETS reduced emissions in the short run\, these reductions were systematically associated with political signaling. Our findings suggest that current market-based approaches in China may not be qualitatively different to more direct forms of environmental regulation. \n\n\n\nChen Xiang is an Assistant Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai Jiao Tong University\, and she is also a Fulbright Fellow at the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy and Environment at Harvard University. Her research explores the antinomies that emerge through economic and political modernization\, such as development and environmentalism\, nationalism and populism\, and China’s foreign policies. Her recent works have been published in Environmental Science & Policy\, Energy for Sustainable Development\, Cambridge Review of International Affairs\, and International Affairs. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldu-qrDgpHdz2RdMmRNTsWIqnhv1km1aU#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chen-xiang-political-signaling-drives-chinas-pilot-emissions-trading-scheme/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231018T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231018T130000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
CREATED:20230906T144309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230906T144338Z
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk - Objects of Addiction: Opium\, Empire\, and the Chinese Art Trade
DESCRIPTION:Led by: Sarah Laursen\, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art\, Harvard Art Museums \n\n\n\nJoin curator Sarah Laursen for a closer look at artworks in the exhibition Objects of Addiction: Opium\, Empire\, and the Chinese Art Trade (September 15\, 2023–January 14\, 2024). The exhibition explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. Laursen will share how these two commodities—acquired through both legal and illicit means—have had a lasting impact on the global economy\, public health\, immigration law\, education\, and the arts. \n\n\n\nGallery talks are limited to 18 people. Registration is required. You can register by clicking on the event on this form\, beginning at 10am the day of the talk. \n\n\n\nPlease meet in the Calderwood Courtyard\, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gallery-talk-objects-of-addiction-opium-empire-and-the-chinese-art-trade/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums\, 32 Quincy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231020T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T135857Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
DESCRIPTION:reserve a tour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring Public Visits\, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. \n\n\n\nCAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour\, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators\, hailing from graduate programs across the university as well as Harvard College. \n\n\n\nCurrently installed in CAMLab Cave\, the Cave Dance and Embodied Architecture projects activate the narrative\, cultural\, and sensorial potentials of interpreting historical data. \n\n\n\nCave Dance integrates thousands of depictions of dance from Dunhuang with motion capture of trained dancers\, who performed movements preserved by textual records. With this human-computer collaborative choreography as its foundation\, the Cave Dance installation instantiates movement sequences within ethereal motifs and enacts the “bodiless body\,” a state of transcendence epitomized by celestial dancers at Dunhuang. \n\n\n\nCombining photogrammetry with procedural generation and CGI\, Embodied Architecture presents the world’s most comprehensive 3D model of the Yingxian pagoda\, the world’s tallest timber structure. Serving as a stage for opening a cosmological understanding\, the installation progressively unfolds the multisensory experience that the pagoda embodies—elucidating the lens of ritual practice. \n\n\n\nAdvanced reservations are required\, and all are welcome. Tickets are pay-as-you-wish\, with $10.00 suggested for non-Harvard visitors. Proceeds directly support CAMLab’s future research and projects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-camlab-fall-public-visits-5/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
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SUMMARY:Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
DESCRIPTION:reserve a tour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring Public Visits\, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. \n\n\n\nCAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour\, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators\, hailing from graduate programs across the university as well as Harvard College. \n\n\n\nCurrently installed in CAMLab Cave\, the Cave Dance and Embodied Architecture projects activate the narrative\, cultural\, and sensorial potentials of interpreting historical data. \n\n\n\nCave Dance integrates thousands of depictions of dance from Dunhuang with motion capture of trained dancers\, who performed movements preserved by textual records. With this human-computer collaborative choreography as its foundation\, the Cave Dance installation instantiates movement sequences within ethereal motifs and enacts the “bodiless body\,” a state of transcendence epitomized by celestial dancers at Dunhuang. \n\n\n\nCombining photogrammetry with procedural generation and CGI\, Embodied Architecture presents the world’s most comprehensive 3D model of the Yingxian pagoda\, the world’s tallest timber structure. Serving as a stage for opening a cosmological understanding\, the installation progressively unfolds the multisensory experience that the pagoda embodies—elucidating the lens of ritual practice. \n\n\n\nAdvanced reservations are required\, and all are welcome. Tickets are pay-as-you-wish\, with $10.00 suggested for non-Harvard visitors. Proceeds directly support CAMLab’s future research and projects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-camlab-fall-public-visits-6/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T130000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
CREATED:20230913T132401Z
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SUMMARY:Fears of Inheritance Disruption: Tracing ‘Establishing Heirs’ in Ancient and Early Imperial China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hsinning Liu\, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Michael Puett\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIt is widely acknowledged that in Imperial China\, the system of inheritance adhered to the principle of patrilineal succession\, which bore the responsibility for performing ancestral sacrifices. Consequently\, every man was obligated to have a male heir. In cases where he did not have a biological son\, it became imperative to select and establish an heir who would carry forward his lineage\, whether he was alive or deceased. \n\n\n\nThis presentation endeavors to trace the historical origins of this practice and reexamine the intricate relationship between inheritance and ancestral sacrifice. In ancient China\, while inheritance was closely intertwined with ancestral sacrifice\, it exhibited marked differences compared to later periods. Early Imperial China stands as a crucial transitional phase in this evolution. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/fears-of-inheritance-disruption/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fears-of-inheritance-disruption-tracing-establishing-heirs-in-ancient-and-early-imperial-china/
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:20231025T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T100000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
CREATED:20231004T205057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T114117Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Leonardo Ramondetti: The Enriched Field: Urbanizing the Central Plains of China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Leonardo Ramondetti\, Post-doctoral Researcher\, Politecnico di Torino  \n\n\n\nSince the early 2000s\, China has seen unprecedented urban growth\, spreading to every corner of the country. Driven by the urban entrepreneurialism of major municipalities until the mid-2000s\, the reins have since passed to the central and regional administrations which plan development in a more comprehensive and coordinated fashion. This turning point in urban policies has redirected planning activities: from the centripetal development of major cities through new towns to centrifugal urbanization fostering regional integration via wide-area projects and small-scale interventions. Drawing upon the urbanization in Central Plains\, Henan Province\, this talk discusses the socio-spatial implications of such urban policies and planning activities. It examines the emerging infrastructure\, housing\, and production spaces to provide an interpretation of this urbanization as an enriched field: a space characterized by great performativity in infrastructure\, environment\, and welfare\, as well as imbued with narratives\, stories\, and meanings. \n\n\n\nLeonardo Ramondetti\, Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development\, is a post-doc researcher at Politecnico di Torino\, and an Adjunct Professor at Università di Bologna. His field of research is contemporary urban design and planning\, with attention to infrastructure-led development. He was part of the research ‘Chinese New Towns: Negotiating Citizenship and Physical Form’ (2016-2019)\, spending a five-month visiting period at Tsinghua University to study the urbanization processes underway in central China. He is currently working on the research ‘Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative: Urbanisation processes\, innovation patterns and global investments’ (2020-2023)\, including a five-month visiting period at Laboratoire Techniques\, Territoires et Sociétés to further develop the knowledge in infrastructural projects. He is the coordinator of the China Room research group at Politecnico di Torino\, and the author of The Enriched Field: Urbanising the Central Plains of China (Birkhäuser\, 2022). \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/7060207759 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-series-featuring-leonardo-ramondetti-the-enriched-field-urbanizing-the-central-plains-of-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110223
CREATED:20231012T165542Z
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SUMMARY:Christine Gschwendtner - Unlocking the Flexibility of Electric Vehicle Charging: Combining Plug-in Behavior\, Control Strategies\, and Incentives
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Christine Gschwendtner\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) and the Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program (STPP)\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon. \n\n\n\nChristine Gschwendtner is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University\, focusing on sustainable energy systems. She is particularly interested in the intersection of infrastructure and human behavior\, specifically related to decarbonizing energy systems across sectors\, such as the transport and buildings sectors. She believes that interdisciplinary perspectives are crucial to find innovative solutions. Therefore\, she combines her background in environmental engineering with data analytics and social sciences. Christine uses a variety of methods\, e.g.\, agent-based modeling\, geospatial analyses\, choice experiments and interviews\, working with large datasets and mostly using Python.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/christine-gschwendtner-unlocking-the-flexibility-of-electric-vehicle-charging-combining-plug-in-behavior-control-strategies-and-incentives/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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