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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Kenneth Juster - How China is Reshaping U.S.-India Relations and the Quad
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Kenneth I. Juster\, U.S. Ambassador to India\, 2017-2021Moderator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nKenneth I. Juster\, AB ’76\, MPP ’79\, JD ’79\, served as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 2017 to 2021. He will discuss how China’s actions are reshaping India’s relationship with the United States and affecting the development of the Quad.  Join us for a discussion of how China’s democratic neighbors are cooperating strategically  to offer an alternative vision for the future of the Indo-Pacific.  The talk will underscore the challenges ahead as the United States\, its allies\, and its partner India work together to preserve a free\, open\, and prosperous region\, in light of China’s strategic ambitions.  \n\n\n\nMark Wu is the Henry L. Stimson Professor at Harvard Law School and the Faculty Director for the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He specializes in international trade and international economic law. His writings cover a broad range of topics\, including the impact of emerging economies on global governance\, digital technologies\, trade remedies\, environment\, and foreign investment. Wu also serves as a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He is affiliated with the Asia Center\, Center for the Environment\, Center for International Development\, East Asian Legal Studies\, and the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute & the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs \n\n\n\nAlso presented via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cM7Hy8RSQTeI5-khGGCXrA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-kenneth-juster-how-china-is-reshaping-u-s-india-relations-and-the-quad/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T180000
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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-9/
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:20231104T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
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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-10/
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:20231106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T131500
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SUMMARY:The Urban Transformation of Rural China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Nick R. Smith\, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies\, Barnard College\, Columbia University and author\, The End of the VillageModerator: Tony Saich\, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolIntroduction: Matthew Lee\, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nOver the past twenty years\, China has implemented ambitious new plans for expanding urbanization into rural areas. Smith’s research explores this process of rural urbanization from the perspective of municipal planners\, village cadres\, and rural residents\, as their differing visions for rural China’s urban future collide in the transformation of village space. \n\n\n\nLunch will be offered and registration is requested. \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. \n\n\n\nThis in-person event is open to all Harvard University ID holders. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-urban-transformation-of-rural-china/
LOCATION:Taubman Building\, 3rd Floor\, Harvard Kennedy School\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T220000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231026T181648Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Rosealea Yao - China's Housing and Construction Industry - 2023 Review and Outlook
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Rosealea Yao \, Senior Analyst\, Gavekal Dragonomics \n\n\n\nChina’s property-market slump worsened in 2023. The burst of pent-up demand that followed the reopening from Covid containment evaporated by April\, and sales deteriorated until tentatively stabilizing in August. Rosealea assesses the outlook for the property sector and risks for developers going forward\, as well as the policy response and what it means for real estate as a growth driver in the years to come. \n\n\n\nRosealea Yao is a senior analyst in the Beijing office of Gavekal Dragonomics and has been with the firm since 2007. She is a specialist on the Chinese property market\, and also works on energy\, infrastructure and other issues related to the investment side of the economy. Before joining Gavekal\, she worked at the Chinese Institute of CPAs in Beijing. Rosealea studied economics at the University of Manchester and graduated from Renmin University of China in 1999. \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-rosealea-yao-speaking-on-the-chinese-property-market/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T131500
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T150540Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Julian Gewirtz - The Global China Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Julian Gewirtz\, Deputy Coordinator for Global China Affairs\, U.S. Department of State; former Director for China\, U.S. National Security Council \n\n\n\nModerator: Rana Mitter\, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDr. Gewirtz will discuss the PRC’s global ambitions and influence\, and the efforts of the United States and its allies and partners to address that challenge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-julian-gewirtz/
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:20231108T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231102T164636Z
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SUMMARY:Yang Zhao - Transitioning from Fast to Ultrafast Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles: Insights into Charging Behavior\, Grid Load\, and Upgrade Costs
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yang Zhao\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Harvard-China Project \n\n\n\nAbstract: Ultrafast charging for electric vehicles (EVs) could offer a solution for drivers requiring high travel flexibility and raise the prospect of swift replacement of conventional gasoline/diesel vehicles. Yet\, serious concerns exist regarding the impact on the power grid and the solutions to adopt when power distribution networks cannot provide adequate capacity. In this presentation\, Dr. Yang Zhao will show first the real-world charging patterns and station loads of several representative fast-charging stations in China. The simulations for the increase in charging power in conjunction with real-world EV charging patterns are used to quantify the impact of future ultrafast charging station loads. The results indicate that the marginal increase in station loads is not as significant as the increase in EV charging power. Generalized solutions for charging stations to address insufficient total power capacity are studied including dynamic waiting strategies and use of energy storage. Lastly\, the primary device costs of different charging station upgrade strategies are discussed. \n\n\n\nYang Zhao received his Ph.D. from Beijing Institute of Technology and was a visiting Ph.D. student at University of California at Berkeley. He has worked on the assessment of electric vehicle operating behavior and energy use patterns. He is currently studying how electrified fleets will impact future road transportation and how we can use new energy vehicles to decarbonize energy systems. He is also investigating the development and plans of charging infrastructure in the US and China\, as now is the critical time to develop infrastructure for carbon-neutral targets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yang-zhao-transitioning-from-fast-to-ultrafast-charging-stations-for-electric-vehicles-insights-into-charging-behavior-grid-load-and-upgrade-costs/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T193000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
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SUMMARY:Objects of Addiction: The Legacy of the Opium Wars
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Mark Elliott\, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Harvard UniversityWilliam Kirby\, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business SchoolRana Mitter\, S. T. Lee Professor of U.S.–Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolMeg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business SchoolMark Wu\, Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School \n\n\n\nIn conjunction with the exhibition Objects of Addiction: Opium\, Empire\, and the Chinese Art Trade\, Harvard faculty in Chinese history\, business\, politics\, and law will take part in a roundtable discussion on the 19th-century Opium Wars and the legacy of the opium trade in U.S.–China relations. \n\n\n\nObjects of Addiction: Opium\, Empire\, and the Chinese Art Trade (September 15\, 2023–January 14\, 2024) explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. These two commodities—acquired through both legal and illicit means—had profound effects on the global economy\, public health\, immigration law\, education\, and the arts that are reverberating still today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/objects-of-addiction-the-legacy-of-the-opium-wars/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museum\, Menschel Hall\, Lower Level\, 32 Quincy St\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231025T150759Z
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SUMMARY:Seol Paehwan — Man is the Slave of Kindness: A Gift (Sauɤa)-giving Culture and Social\, Economic\, Political Network in the Mongol Empire
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Seol Paehwan\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Chonnam National University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Christopher P. Atwood\, Professor\, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier and Ethnic History\, University of Pennsylvania \n\n\n\nHarvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talkMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/man-is-the-slave-of-kindness-%e2%80%95-a-gift-sau%c9%a4a-giving-culture-and-social-economic-political-network-in-the-mongol-empire/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/seol-paehwan-man-is-the-slave-of-kindness-a-gift-sau%c9%a4a-giving-culture-and-social-economic-political-network-in-the-mongol-empire/
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:20231110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T180000
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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-11/
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:20231111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231111T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
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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-12/
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:20231113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Soojung Han - Forging a New Sino-Inner Asian Order: The Brotherly Relations Between the Shatuo Turks and Kitans (907–979)
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Soojung Han\, Assistant Professor of History\, Southwestern University \n\n\n\nFollowing the collapse of the Tang dynasty and before the rise of the Song dynasty\, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907–979) is known to have been one of the most chaotic periods in Chinese history. In this lecture\, I explore the relations between China and Inner Asia in the tenth century. Specifically\, I examine the diplomacy between the Shatuo Turks\, who established three out of the Five Dynasties and one of the Ten Kingdoms\, and Kitan Liao\, the nomadic superpower to the north. Through analyzing and comparing the tributary rhetoric in records documented by both parties\, I argue that a relationship of parity between the Middle Kingdom and the Kitans under tianxia (all-under-heaven) should be considered to have started during the rule of Later Tang (923–937)\, one of the Shatuo Turkic dynasties. The brotherly relationship established between the Shatuo Turkic and Kitan rulers\, which in part can be attributed to their nomadic origins\, paved the way for a relationship between equals under tianxia. More crucially\, this relationship reshaped the Sino-Inner Asian world for centuries in which Inner Asian nomads could lay claim and rule over China. \n\n\n\nSoojung Han is an assistant professor of History at Southwestern University. She is a historian of medieval China and Inner Asia whose main field of research is the relations between China and Inner Asia during the Middle Period\, with particular emphasis on gender\, ethnicity\, and identity. Her current book project proposes that the diplomatic relations and identity formation of the 10th century marked a watershed in Chinese history which reshaped the Sino-Inner Asian world. She received her PhD in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 2022. This coming year\, her works will be published in Ethnic Terminologies in Eurasian Perspective in the Visions of Community (VISCOM) series. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUoc-2urzwiGNwQpkQcMrQiFzwU5UWsJYll \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-soojung-han-forging-a-new-sino-inner-asian-order-the-brotherly-relations-between-the-shatuo-turks-and-kitans-907-979/
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:20231114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231025T152648Z
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Kelly Hammond — Chinese Ethnopolitcs and State-Building: The Case of Muslim General Bai Chongxi 
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Kelly Hammond\, Associate Professor of East Asian History\, Department of History\, University of Arkansas \n\n\n\nBai Chongxi’s life spanned the Late Qing\, the founding of the Chinese Republic and its fracturing into the so-called “Warlord Era\,” the Nanjing Decade\, the Second Sino-Japanese War\, the Chinese Civil War\, and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. He is rightly recognized for his dedication to Guangxi and his illustrious military career. He receives less credit for his active participation in Muslim organizations\, his advocacy for the inclusion of Muslims into state-building projects\, and his diplomacy with Muslims in and beyond China.  This talk examines some of the tensions between the ways that Bai tried to ensure that Muslim voices were heard at the national level throughout his military career. By doing this\, we see that Bai attempted to foreground Muslim concerns as a pressing geopolitical issue for the Nationalists. Bai’s actions from the 1920s through to the 1960s expose the fraught and complex processes of nation and state building in China and show how the political and military architects of KMT state-building efforts often had loyalties that conflicted with the KMT.   \n\n\n\nKelly Hammond is an Associate Professor of East Asian History in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas. She is also the Associate Director of International and Global Studies. Hammond specializes in modern Chinese and Japanese history\, and her work focuses on Islam and politics in 20th-century East Asia. She is the author of China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II. She serves on the editorial board of Twentieth-Century China and is the Associate Editor for Modern China at The Journal of Asian Studies.   \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Er_y618RQp2L2JszSP9xbw \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-kelly-anne-hammond-chinese-ethnopolitcs-and-state-building-the-case-of-muslim-general-bai-chongxi/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T131500
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231024T152819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231024T152820Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Ya-Wen Lei - Techno-Capitalism: Social Challenges and Fissures in Today's China
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ya-Wen Lei\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, Harvard UniversityYa-Wen Lei is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. Trained in both law and sociology\, she holds a LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan. After graduating from Michigan in 2013\, she was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University (2013–2016). In academic year 2018–2019\, she was a visiting professor at Sciences Po in France. \n\n\n\nShe is the author of The Contentious Public Sphere: Law\, Media\, and Authoritarian Rule in China (Princeton University Press\, 2018). Her second book\, The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China\, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in Fall 2023. She has published in general sociological journals (American Sociological Review\, American Journal of Sociology\, and Socius)\, specialized social science journals (Law and Society Review\, Work\, Employment and Society\, and Political Communication)\, and a China studies journal (The China Quarterly). Her publications have received various awards from the American Sociological Association\, the Law and Society Association\, and The China Quarterly—the leading interdisciplinary journal in China studies.More information coming soon. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aIjSl02vTLOCqxWM-wgVhQ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-ya-wen-lei-techno-capitalism-social-challenges-and-fissures-in-todays-china/
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:20231115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231026T170810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T150158Z
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies Workshop Panel Discussion: Elections in Taiwan 2024
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Richard C. Bush\, Nonresident Senior Fellow\, Center for East Asia Policy Studies (CEAP)\, Brookings InstitutionJIA Qingguo\, Director and Professor\, Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding\, Peking UniversityWei-Ting Yen\, Assistant Professor of Government\, Government Department\, Franklin and Marshall College \n\n\n\nModerator: Steven M. Goldstein\, Sophia Smith Professor of Government\, Emeritus\, Smith College; Director\, Fairbank Center Taiwan Studies Workshop Series \n\n\n\nOn January 13\, 2024\, elections will be held in Taiwan. Panelists will discuss the views of the major actors in the region regarding the possible impact of these elections on the political environment on the island and the security situation in the area. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9Ik1DcSCT42oPIddmVx6mg \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-workshop-panel-discussion-elections-in-taiwan-2024/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231017T150157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231106T224637Z
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SUMMARY:Yan Wenjie - Fake News as a Socio-political-psychological Phenomenon: Evidence from China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yan Wenjie\, Professor\, Political Communication\, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Matthew Baum\, Marvin Kalb Professor Of Global Communications and Professor Of Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School; Department of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe spread of online falsity is one of the most pressing global challenges of the day. It is detrimental to the proper functioning of a society\, because it blocks quality information\, erodes social trust\, and breeds group conflicts. It is also a serious concern in China. With hundreds of millions of users\, Chinese social media have been awash with unfiltered misinformation. How gullible are people to misinformation on social media? What are the factors that may contribute to their patterns of veracity judgment and behavioral tendencies? What are the preventative measures at our disposal we might possibly use as social interventions? This talk is to provide some initial answers to these questions by presenting results from a set of survey experiments on samples of Chinese Internet users. By drawing upon empirical evidence from a non-Western population\, this talk is aimed to shed further light on our understanding of false news. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/fake-news-as-a-socio-political-psychological-phenomenon-evidence-from-china/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yan-wenjie-fake-news-as-a-socio-political-psychological-phenomenon-evidence-from-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:20231116T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T150000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231109T224710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T225001Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Hillenbrand - Read Your Mind: Facial Recognition Technology and Contemporary Chinese Portraiture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Margaret Hillenbrand\, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture\, University of Oxford \n\n\n\nMargaret Hillenbrand’s paper probes the links between facial recognition technology and contemporary Chinese portraiture. Its point of departure is a recent paper published by two AI researchers based in China. The paper introduces a facial recognition algorithm apparently capable of predicting the status of an individual as a convicted criminal with almost 90% accuracy using only a driver’s license-style photograph. Unsurprisingly\, the paper attracted a furious backlash\, as commentators around the world pointed out its unabashed parallels with the long-discredited pseudosciences of physiognomy and phrenology. Less obvious\, though equally intriguing\, is the relationship between this branch of facial recognition technology and the practices of art-making. To explore this submerged linkage\, Hillenbrand turns to the work of contemporary painters Fang Lijun and Yue Minjun\, whose experiments in the domain of portraiture mirror in inverted\, mocking ways the operations of machine learning software which attempts to read the human mind and predict behavior. These parallels matter because they show that many facial recognition technologies are brazen forms of visual media\, interventions in the seeable world which borrow outrageously from pictorial traditions of portraiture\, old and new. This recourse to art\, the disdained domain of subjectivity\, within the professedly impartial\, ideologically scientized field of facial algorithms shakes the latter’s foundational myth: namely\, that individual identity is genomically predetermined in ways which only the most objective methods can disclose. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom.Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97027197260?pwd=MnJzR3JKUjR0Vlk2WU1VdjRxcURodz09 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/margaret-hillenbrand-read-your-mind/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231004T140236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T140237Z
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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-13/
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:20231118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231004T140253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T140255Z
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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-14/
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:20231120T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231120T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231018T164959Z
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Yiyun Peng and Brian Spivey - Herbaceous Revolution and Environmental Protection: Introducing New Scholarship in Chinese Environmental History
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Yiyun Peng\, D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of History\, University of ChicagoBrian Spivey\, Mellon Faculty Fellow\, History Department\, UC IrvineSeries Convener: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor\, Boston College \n\n\n\nYiyun Peng received her PhD in history from Cornell University in August 2023 and is currently the D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She works on late imperial and modern China and is mainly interested in environmental history\, the history of science and technology\, and economic history. Her first project demonstrates how a few popular cash crops and the handicraft industries processing them into commodities—indigo dye\, bamboo paper\, tobacco\, and ramie (a fiber plant) cloth—led to a herbaceous revolution in upland Southeast China from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, which profoundly transformed the region’s environment and society. In its dissertation form\, this project won the 2023 Messenger Chalmers Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of History at Cornell University. Her second project looks into the production and circulation of ramie in East Asia and beyond.  \n\n\n\nBrian Spivey is currently a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the History Department at UC Irvine. His work broadly focuses on the reciprocal relationship between environmental and societal change in modern China. His current research project examines how growing global and local awareness of pollution and other unintended side-effects of industrialization during the late Cultural Revolution (1970-1976) drove the early development of environmental protection efforts (“huanjing baohu”) and discussions about sustainable growth in China. He also researches the history of Xinjiang and the Uyghur people\, especially during the 1980s. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d7H1jxtRTvSw6p179ZSG7w \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-yiyung-peng-and-brian-spivey-herbaceous-revolution-and-environmental-protection-introducing-new-scholarship-in-chinese-environmental-history/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231121T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231121T220000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231102T154728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T154904Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Series Featuring Fang Xu - Care to be a Shanghainese? Endangerment of the Vernacular and Flexible Resident Identity
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Fang Xu \, Continuing Lecturer\, Interdisciplinary Studies Program\, University of California Berkeley \n\n\n\nThe transformation of Shanghai into a global city has driven millions of Shanghainese away from the urban core; and turned both the historic urban Shanghai and its newly urbanized periphery into a manifestation of the “China Dream”. Shanghai has also experienced the influx of millions of internal migrants\, and state language policies mandating the usage of Mandarin Chinese instead of the vernacular in all spheres of public life. Based on field research in 2013 and 2017\, this talk focuses on how these Chinese urbanites internalize and navigate the transformed urban geographical and sociolinguistic landscape and position themselves in it. The new urban middle class anchors their identity more on social class and lifestyle than on birthplace\, the household registration status\, and regional tongues such as the Shanghai dialect. Nonetheless\, during the draconian Covid-19 lockdown in 2022\, usage of the Shanghainese vernacular became a countercultural force. \n\n\n\nA Shanghai native\, Fang Xu is an urban sociologist with expertise in language\, cultural identity\, migration\, and public policies in urban China. She holds the position of Continuing Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Studies program at University of California Berkeley. She is the author of the 2021 book\, Silencing Shanghai: Language and Identity in Urban China. The book has received favorable reviews in journals such as The China Quarterly and Language in Society\, and mentioned in magazines and newspapers such as The Economist and The Guardian. Her current research investigates language-based discrimination experienced by first-generation immigrants in the United States and their identification with the American identity. \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-fang-xu-care-to-be-a-shanghainese-endangerment-of-the-vernacular-and-flexible-resident-identity/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
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SUMMARY:Yangyang Cheng - Empires and Exiles: On Writing About Science and Technology Between China and the United States
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yangyang Cheng\, Research Scholar in Law and Fellow\, Paul Tsai China Center\, Yale Law SchoolModerator: Victor Seow\, Associate Professor of the History of Science\, Department of the History of Science\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nDr. Yangyang Cheng is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center\, where her work focuses on the development of science and technology in China and U.S.‒China relations. Her essays on these and related topics have appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, WIRED\, MIT Technology Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and many other publications\, and have received awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA)\, Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)\, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Born and raised in China\, Cheng received her PhD in physics from the University of Chicago and her bachelor’s from the University of Science and Technology of China’s School for the Gifted Young. Before joining Yale\, she worked on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for over a decade\, most recently at Cornell University and as an LHC Physics Center Distinguished Researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yangyang-cheng-empires-and-exiles/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T143000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat do gender politics\, the Sino-Japanese War\, Cold War anxiety\, and the Cultural Revolution have in common? Come for lunch and find out on Tuesday\, November 28\, when Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars present their recent research!  \n\n\n\nAt the workshop\, scholars will present research on gender politics in Chinese film\, contemporary Taiwanese literature and media studies\, environmental and technological history\, and rural Chinese economic history.   \n\n\n\nQ&A and discussion will follow each talk.    \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person event. Lunch will be served at 12:15.   \n\n\n\nPlease complete this form if you plan to attend. \n\n\n\nSchedule:  \n\n\n\n12:15 pm      Welcome   \n\n\n\n12:30 pm      Yuan Zhang\, Assistant Professor in the School of International Education\, China Women’s University  Gender Politics and Chinese Film  \n\n\n\n1:00 pm       Chi-yu Lin\, Fellow of the Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program\, National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan A Cold War Anxiety of Influence: Cousin Lianyi 《蓮漪表妹》\, 1935-1985  \n\n\n\n1:30 pm       Miwa Shimada\, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law\, Keio University The Northwest Development and China’s Frontier Image: Focusing on Inner Mongolia during the Sino-Japanese War  \n\n\n\n2:00 pm       Qin Hui\, Professor of History\, Emeritus\, Tsinghua University Why the Cultural Revolution Matters Today  (This talk will be delivered in Chinese)  \n\n\n\n2:30 pm       Closing Remarks  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholars-workshop-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080013
CREATED:20231017T151148Z
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SUMMARY:Wei Ran - Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wei Ran\,  Associate Professor\, Institute of Foreign Literature\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Discussant: Mariano Siskind\, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn the Global 1960s\, many Latin American leading intellectuals\, such as Pablo Neruda\, José Venturelli\, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia\, visited Maoist China\, which was regarded as an alternative to Soviet Union and Cuba’s bureaucratic systems. This talk tries to reconstruct the experiences of their (dis)encounters with revolutionary China in the 1960-70s\, though travelogues\, memoirs\, documentaries\, archival records\, and contemporary novels. I will appropriate Contemporary Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Volver la vista atrás (2020) as Ariadne’s thread to sketch several Latin American travelers’ trajectories in Revolutionary China’s labyrinth. Key Latin American travelers’ experiences not merely synergistically created a Chinese version of Tricontinentalism and global solidarity\, but rather creatively modified some of the uniform discourses of Mao Zedong’s thought on literature and culture into centrifugal and transgressive critique. My central argument is that the pioneering literary and cultural creativity of the cross-border Latin American travelers led the way in the conceptualization of socialist cosmopolitanism\, rather than economic and trade cooperation in the 1960-70s. After five decades of the global 1960s\, facing Latin American postmemory archives\, such as Volver la vista atrás\, this talk\, by challenging fixed epistemological patterns\, seeks to suggest new perspectives towards the transnational utopian ruins. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/latin-american-travelers-and-revolutionary-china-in-the-global-1960s-a-story-of-disencounters/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wei-ran-latin-american-travelers-and-revolutionary-china-in-the-global-1960s-a-story-of-disencounters/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yasheng Huang - China’s Long March: From Politics to Economics and From Economics to Politics
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yasheng Huang\, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management\, MIT Sloan School of Management \n\n\n\nProfessor Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation professor of global economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. From 2013 to 2017\, he served as an associate dean in charge of MIT Sloan’s global partnership programs and its action learning initiatives. His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School. \n\n\n\nProfessor Huang is the author of 11 books in both English and Chinese and of many academic papers and news commentaries. His books\, Statism with Chinese Characteristics (Cambridge University Press) and The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: Examination\, Autocracy\, Stability and Technology in Chinese History and Today (Yale University Press)\, will be published 2023. He is collaborating with Chinese academics on a book project\, The Needham Question\, based on a comprehensive database on Chinese historical inventions and politics. \n\n\n\nHe is a co-Principal Investigator in a large-scale multi-disciplinary research project on food safety in China. Professor Huang founded and runs China Lab and India Lab\, which have provided low-cost consulting services to hundreds of small and medium enterprises in China and India. From 2015 to 2018\, he ran a program in Yunnan province to train women entrepreneurs (funded by Goldman Sachs Foundation). He has held or received prestigious fellowships such as National Fellowship at Stanford University and Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Fellowship. National Asia Research Program named him one of the most outstanding scholars in the United States conducting research on issues of policy importance to the United States. He has served as a consultant at World Bank\, Asian Development Bank and OECD\, and serves on advisory and corporate boards of non-profit and for-profit organizations. He is a founding member and is serving as the president of Asian American Scholar Forum\, a NGO dedicated to open science\, protection of rights and well-being of Asian American scholars. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lvxz1T6XQYyaO-oqO43Jdw \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-yasheng-huang-chinas-long-march-from-politics-to-economics-and-from-economics-to-politics/
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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