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SUMMARY:The Lifestyles in the Tang Dynasty under the Influence of Manuscript Culture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhao Shuyang\,  Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Prof. Xiaofei Tian\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe physical form of books plays a crucial role in human’s daily life. Prior to the advent of woodblock printing in ancient China\, the manuscript era prevailed\, in which all books were laboriously copied by hand. This unique method of production bestowed upon these books’ distinct features such as flexibility\, unpredictability\, and individuality. During this period\, people came up with various strategies to accommodate these traits to facilitate the smooth dissemination of written works. Adapting to this manuscript-based literary culture\, the ancients in China developed specific ways of life that left a lasting impact on fields like history\, culture\, and literature. These historical lifestyles are different from what we know today and interpreting them through the perspective of the print era could lead to misconceptions. A genuine understanding of these lifestyles and the historical documents they produced is only possible when contextualized within the manuscript era. \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-lifestyles-in-the-tang-dynasty-under-the-influence-of-manuscript-culture/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-lifestyles-in-the-tang-dynasty-under-the-influence-of-manuscript-culture/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Japan\, China\, and Global Economic Orders
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Tsuyoshi Kawase\, Visiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Professor\, Sophia UniversityJi Miao\, Visiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow\, China Foreign Affairs UniversityMasako Suginohara\, Visiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Professor\, Ferris University  \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Kristin Vekasi\, Associate Professor\, School of Policy & International Affairs\, University of Maine \n\n\n\nModerator: Christina L. Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Department of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcu-opz4jG9CZCNE8XoULjrk0yWkWzINY#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/japan-china-and-global-economic-orders/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T160000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Xiaoqiao Ling - Rethinking Early Huaben Stories: Miscellanies and Literary Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Xiaoqiao Ling\, Associate Professor of Chinese\, Arizona State University \n\n\n\nThis paper investigates ways in which the proximity of texts in literary environments complicate our understanding of invention and creation in the late Ming narrative tradition. Early vernacular short stories (huaben) are typically dismissed as haphazard patchworks of disparate textual segments. Pioneering scholars such as Patrick Hanan have mostly used these stories for dating purposes and for tracking textual pedigrees and influences. Feng Menglong (1574–1646)\, in his 1620 compilation of Stories Old and New (the first of the Sanyan collections)\, dismissed two of such stories as “coarse and frivolous\,” failing to meet literati sensibilities. Yet these stories certainly had broad commercial appeals at the time. Anthologized repeatedly in late sixteenth-century miscellanies that fitted texts of different literary forms in upper and lower panels on a leaf\, these stories facilitated serendipitous connections in readers’ minds given the proximity of texts that packaged familiar tropes in novel permutations. Using ecology as a metaphor to examine literature’s engagement with its environments\, this research proposes to rethink these stories in terms of how they were experienced in their immediate textual environments housed by sixteenth-century miscellanies. Such a perspective also allows for new ways of contextualizing the huaben tradition in a distinctive regional community that embraced literary sightseeing as a predominant mode of reading. \n\n\n\nXiaoqiao Ling is Associate Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University. Her main field of interest is late imperial Chinese literature with a focus on performance texts\, vernacular fiction\, and print culture. She has published in both Chinese and English on fiction and drama commentary\, legal imagination in literature\, memory and trauma\, and Sino-Korean reading practices. She is the author of Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China (Harvard University Asia Center\, 2019) and editor of Minor Discourses: Aesthetics of the Everyday (National Taiwan University Press\, forthcoming). \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqce2hrzsoHdaOgEkIVGI4yJGHKkwYCnzF \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-xiaoqiao-ling-rethinking-early-huaben-stories-miscellanies-and-literary-ecologies/
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:20231205T113000
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SUMMARY:Xiao Xiaoyan - Life Histories and Collective Memory of Deaf People in a Chinese Social Welfare Factory
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xiao Xiaoyan\, Professor\, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures\, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Discussant: Kathryn Davidson\, Professor of Linguistics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis study reports an on-going project attempting  to record life histories of Deaf individuals and construct the collective memory of Deaf workers in Chinese social welfare factories since 1958. After 1949\, as part of the reform in social welfare and relief system\, the Chinese government established state-owned social welfare factories to provide its disabled citizens with a stable job. The presenter has interviewed Deaf employees who have retired from or are still working for the Beijing Sanlu Factory (北京三露厂)\, originally the Beijing Carpet Factory for the Deaf and Mute (北京聋哑人地毯厂)\, one of the very first two welfare factories built in Beijing in 1958 to provide concentrated employment for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. While most of the earlier welfare factories in China went bankrupt\, Sanlu still survives\, after dramatic reforms and restructuring. Over 800 Deaf people have been employed here. Some of the older Deaf workers were hired since 1958 and have witnessed the ups and downs of the factory throughout the earlier decades\, while younger employees were outsourced to the Johnson & Johnson-bought Dabao (大宝) Makeup Co. Ltd\, the most successful subsidiary and top selling brand of the Sanlu group. Together\, life histories and collective memory of these Deaf workers provide a glimpse into the lives of the world’s biggest Deaf population and a unique perspective to showcase China’s larger political\, economic and social reform and transformation over six decades. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xiao-xiaoyan-living-history-and-collective-memory-of-deaf-people-in-a-chinese-social-welfare-factory/
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:20231206T120000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Keyu Jin – China's New Playbook
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Keyu Jin\, Professor of Economics\, London School of Economics and Political ScienceModerator: David Yang\, Professor\, Department of Economics; Director\, Center for History and Economics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nJin Keyu is a tenured professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an academic member of the China Finance 40 Group and has worked with the World Bank\, the IMF\, and the China Banking Regulatory Commission\, and is a non-executive board member of the luxury conglomerate Richemont and the global bank Credit Suisse. \n\n\n\nBorn and raised in Beijing\, she attended high school and college in the United States and holds a BA\, MA\, and PhD in economics from Harvard University. She resides with her family in Beijing and London. \n\n\n\nMore information coming soon. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yAZCG4XTQVmTnDxa3UbteA \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-keyu-jin/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T133000
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SUMMARY:Jihon Kim - Heritage Wars: Legacies of Colonial Rule and Wartime Memories in East Asia for UNESCO Nominations
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jihon Kim\, Fulbright Visiting Scholar\, Harvard Asia Center; Chief of International Cooperation\, Korean National Commission for UNESCO; Research Fellow\, Institute of International Studies\, Seoul National University \n\n\n\nChair: Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Department of History\, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences \n\n\n\nSince 2015\, conflicts at UNESCO over the historic interpretation of Japanese colonial rule and wartime actions in the first half of the 20th Century among three East Asian countries\, Japan\, Korea\, and China\, have been fierce. Japan nominated the Meiji Industrial Heritage Sites for the World Heritage List in 2015. This brought a huge backlash from Korea and several other countries as some of the sites had used forced labor from Korea and China during WWII. In the meantime\, China successfully inscribed the Documents of Nanjing Massacre to the Memory of the World Register in 2015\, despite the strong complaint from Japan. However\, nomination on the archives of Comfort Women was postponed for further communication between Korea and Japan in 2017\, which is still pending.  \n\n\n\nThis talk explains how these recent heritage wars at UNESCO result from dissonant or competing ideas of the colonial and wartime past in East Asia. Based on my personal experience\, my focus will be on bilateral and multilateral diplomacy by both State and non-State actors. This talk tries to answer the question of how we might deal with legacies of colonial rule and wartime memories in East Asia in a more inclusive way and invites ideas from the participants.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jihon-kim-heritage-wars-legacies-of-colonial-rule-and-wartime-memories-in-east-asia-for-unesco-nominations/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T160000
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SUMMARY:International Mitigation Finance: Carbon Mitigation\, Welfare\, and Optimal Recipient Design
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Naixin Huang\, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics\, Tsinghua University; Harvard-China Project Fellow \n\n\n\nInternational mitigation finance is a primary way in global climate cooperation to limit fast-growing carbon emissions of developing countries. Using a multi-country-multi-sector quantitative trade model\, we take the year 2017 as an example to estimate carbon mitigation and welfare effects from mitigation finance and explore its optimal recipient allocation. We find that 2017’s 44.2 billion USD mitigation finance can reduce 533 million tons of carbon emissions\, or 1.5% of 2017’s world total. Each recipient country’s welfare increased and the total welfare of all providers increased. In addition\, to maximize carbon mitigation\, finance should be redistributed to a small number of countries with the lowest marginal mitigation cost instead of large emitters. Marginal mitigation cost is determined by the initial ratio of clean energy quantity to dirty energy quantity\, clean energy endowment\, price index\, and carbon emission coefficient. Global welfare would be raised by redistributing finance\, as it can reduce 875 million tons of carbon emissions\, or 2.5% of 2017’s world total. \n\n\n\nNaixin Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in economics from Tsinghua University. Her research with HCP research associate Dr. Mun S. Ho and visiting Prof. Jing Cao focuses on the global carbon price floor’s welfare effects and optimal design. The 2°C goal is challenging to reach\, and it will be essential to consider the international differences in mitigation costs and benefits. IMF (2021) proposes a system of global carbon prices in which countries at different economic levels assign different carbon prices. Using a global trade model\, she and colleagues seek to illustrate the impact of such a differentiated price floor system. Then\, they seek an alternative design for the worldwide carbon price floor. Besides the global carbon price floor\, she and visiting Prof. Jing Cao also researched international climate finance’s welfare effects and optimal design. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/international-mitigation-finance-carbon-mitigation-welfare-and-optimal-recipient-design/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T113000
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SUMMARY:He Wenkai - Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England\, Japan\, and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: He Wenkai\,  Associate Professor\, Division of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 \n\n\n\nIn this book\, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England\, Japan\, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, Wenkai He examines the connections between state capacity\, state legitimation and the expansion of political participation. He demonstrates how in each case a public interest-based discourse of state legitimation provided a common platform upon which state and society collaborated to provide public goods such as famine relief and large-scale infrastructural facilities. In this way\, state and society strove to overcome their respective weaknesses in attaining good governance. Moreover\, each discourse of state legitimation entailed ‘passive rights’ that allowed subordinates to justify their demands on the state to redress welfare grievances; these often took the form of collective actions. Conflicts between domestic welfare and other dimensions of public interest\, however\, could instigate cross-regional and cross-sectoral mass petitions for fundamental political reforms that were likewise justified by the state’s proclaimed duty to safeguard the public interest; these mass petitions might ultimately transform the state. Such a political ‘great divergence’ occurred in England (1760s-1780s) and Japan (1870s-1880s)\, but not in China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/he-wenkai-book-talk-public-interest-and-state-legitimation-early-modern-england-japan-and-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T130000
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SUMMARY:Hou Zhe - Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hou Zhe\, Assistant Professor\, Institute of China Studies\, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nThe assertion that “the working class must lead everything” was a fundamental tenet in the ideological framework of the education revolution during Mao’s era in China. This principle\, along with the beliefs that “education serves proletarian politics” and “education should be combined with productive labor”\, underscored the legitimacy and importance of the working class in this transformative period. This talk aims to delve into the multifaceted role of the working class in shaping the educational landscape during this revolution. It will explore the instrumental role of the Workers’ Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams within the educational systems and the impact of the School Revolutionary Committees within educational institutions. Furthermore\, it will examine the implementation and outcomes of labor education across various types of schools during this era. By doing so\, this discussion seeks to illuminate the complex interplay between class\, politics\, and education within the context of China’s historical and socio-political fabric. \n\n\n\nMore info: www.harvard-yenching.org/events/hou-zhe-between-ideals-and-reality/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hou-zhe-between-ideals-and-reality-the-working-classs-role-in-chinas-education-revolution/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080016
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SUMMARY:Yan Fei - Factions in Flux: Intergroup Collaboration and Conflict in the Red Guard Movement
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yan Fei\, Associate Professor\, Sociology\, Tsinghua University; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Joint Fellow\, 2023-24Discussant: Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nStudents of social movements and collective action have traditionally concentrated on the structural factors influencing group formation during social mobilization. This conventional model depicts members of opposing factions as pursuing collective interests that are predetermined by their existing social positions\, leading to well-defined political alliances with fixed objectives and unwavering identities. However\, during periods of radical instability\, political ambiguity and contingency often disrupt the rigidity of these established models of mobilization. Drawing from a detailed examination of popular uprisings and factional contention in Guangzhou City and Haifeng County during the years 1966-1968 with the more abundant sources available today\, this study identifies two critical mechanisms—namely\, contextual ambiguity and adaptive choice—that serve as intermediaries in shaping political alignments in moments of radical change. It is argued that within rapidly changing and ambiguous political environments\, the process of group formation is predominantly driven by emerging interests as factional struggles evolve\, rather than being firmly rooted in pre-existing social antagonisms. Throughout this dynamic process\, new political identities emerge\, and political interests are continuously redefined\, often giving rise to violent conflicts of increasing magnitude and influence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yan-fei-factions-in-flux-intergroup-collaboration-and-conflict-in-the-red-guard-movement/
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:20231212T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231212T140000
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SUMMARY:Business in China’s “New Era”: Roundtable Discussion with Fairbank Center Visiting Fellows of Practice 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisiting Fellows Brendan Li\, Shujun Li\, Tony Liu\, and Mitch Presnick will explore the role of business in Xi Jinping’s “new era\,” from technology to finance\, manufacturing to services\, as well as opportunities for collaboration between Chinese and American enterprises.   \n\n\n\nThis is an in-person event open to Harvard community members. The discussion will not be recorded. Lunch will be served from 12:15.   \n\n\n\nPlease complete this RSVP form to let us know if you plan to attend: https://forms.office.com/r/xiyjHRMqzw  \n\n\n\nFeaturing four Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars of Practice:   \n\n\n\nBrendan Li Wangzhi (Brendan) Li is a lawyer and finance expert. He is the Founding Director and core tutor of Entrepreneur’s Training Camp at Peking University and was previously a Founding Partner of Lao Niu Charitable Foundation and a professional investor in the Citigroup Investment Banking Department. His research interests are related to constitutional law and Chinese politics. After graduating from Peking University Law school\, he became an attorney in China. He has a BA from Columbia University.   \n\n\n\nShujun Li Shujun Li is an entrepreneur and a social philosopher. He is Founder and Managing Partner of Trustbridge Partners. His research project\, tentatively titled “Impact of Diversity on Economic Development and Social Stability in Modern China\,” explores the influence of ethnic and ideological diversity on economic prosperity\, social stability\, and policy progression in modern China.   \n\n\n\nTony Liu Quan (Tony) Liu is Chairman and Founder of Beijing United Information Technology Co.\, a B2B e-commerce platform for online commodity transactions\, business information services\, and internet technology services. His research project focuses on exploring future opportunities and challenges of business cooperation between Chinese and American enterprises in the context of today’s U.S.-China relations. Liu graduated from Renmin University with a BA in Finance.  \n\n\n\nMitch Presnick Mitchell Presnick is founder of Super 8 Hotels China\, an economy hotel chain with more than 1100 locations\, and APCO Worldwide China\, a public affairs consultancy. His current research explores the practical realities and challenges inherent in this new era of China’s business relations with developed countries. Presnick studied at Peking University and Rutgers Business School and has spent 35 years in Beijing and Hong Kong.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/business-in-chinas-new-era-roundtable-discussion-with-fairbank-center-visiting-fellows-of-practice/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231218T203000
DTSTAMP:20260502T080016
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies Workshop Panel Discussion - Elections in Taiwan: Time for a Change?
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Lev Nachman\, National Cheng-chih UniversitySarah Newland\, Smith CollegeTsai Chia-hung\, National Cheng-chih University \n\n\n\nModerator: Steven Goldstein\, Taiwan Studies Workshop Director\, Harvard University Fairbank Center \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wtZbw7TYQXqu39XnL6pU_A \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-time-for-a-change/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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