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SUMMARY:2024 Harvard China Law Symposium - Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Harvard Law School China Law Association’s annual China Law Symposium\, “Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges\,” celebrating the Lunar New Year. This three-day event features lunch & dinner panels\, concluding with a festive Lunar New Year social. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, including a detailed agenda\, visit https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cla/china-law-symposium/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-harvard-china-law-symposium-longevity-building-resilient-bridges/
LOCATION:WCC\, Harvard Law School\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:2024 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Ambassador Robert Lighthizer — China and the Trade Trap
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amb. Robert Lighthizer\, 18th United States Trade Representative (2017-2021) \n\n\n\nThe American government and public increasingly doubt the benefits of our economic relations with the People’s Republic of China. Since 2018\, the United States has raised tariffs on Chinese imports\, imposed restrictions on the export of high-tech American goods to Chinese firms\, and limited Chinese investment in the American market. Join us for a discussion with former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer\, a key architect of many of these changes\, as we examine the merits of these policies and explore the future direction of U.S. economic relations with China. \n\n\n\nThe Annual Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture is designed to present the perspectives of scholars whose work about China link the academic world and government service. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker:Robert E. Lighthizer served as the 18th United States Trade Representative from 2017 to 2021.   \n\n\n\nAn experienced trade negotiator and litigator\, Ambassador Lighthizer spearheaded several historic trade agreements as USTR\, ushering in a new era of fair\, balanced\, and reciprocal trade for U.S. workers\, producers\, and businesses.  Significant among these accomplishments\, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)  rebalanced and modernized trade in North America\, expanded U.S. market access\, protects our workers and the environment\, and incentivize manufacturing in the United States.   \n\n\n\nHe also negotiated important trade agreements with South Korea and Japan greatly expanding U.S. trade opportunities in those countries and established a groundbreaking paradigm for digital trade.  \n\n\n\nAfter confronting China on its abusive trade practices\, Ambassador Lighthizer negotiated  the U.S.-China Phase One Economic and Trade Agreement\, a fully-enforceable agreement that addresses China’s discriminatory treatment of U.S. companies\, intellectual property theft\, and currency manipulation \, while maintaining tariffs on key Chinese products and increasing China’s purchases of U.S. goods and services.   \n\n\n\nHe also brought attention to systemic issues and outdated\, ineffective rules at the World Trade Organization (WTO)\, placing unprecedented pressure on the WTO’’s Appellate Body and working with our trade partners on wider reforms. \n\n\n\nAt the time he was chosen by President Trump to serve as USTR\, Ambassador Lighthizer had been a partner at Skadden\,Arps for over 30 years. Before that\, Ambassador Lighthizer served as Deputy USTR for President Ronald Reagan and negotiated over two dozen bilateral international agreements\, including agreements on steel\, automobiles\, and agricultural products.  As Deputy USTR\, he served as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. \n\n\n\nPrior to becoming Deputy USTR\, Ambassador Lighthizer was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance under Chairman Bob Dole.  In this position\, he was a key player in enacting the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 – the most significant tax reform in decades – and other elements of the Reagan economic program. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Lighthizer earned a Bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University and his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a native of Ashtabula\, Ohio. He writes and speaks often on issues of international economics\, trade\, China and U.S. politics. \n\n\n\nAmbassador Lighthizer recently published a book on trade policy\, its importance for America and what was accomplished in the Trump administration entitled No Trade Is Free: Changing Course\, Taking On China and Helping America’s Workers.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-charles-neuhauser-memorial-lecture-featuring-ambassador-robert-lighthizer-china-and-the-trade-trap/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Yu Dong - Exploration of Food Resources by a Neolithic Community in Northern China: Perspectives from Stable Isotope Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yu Dong\, Professor\, Institute of Cultural Heritage\, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nChair/Discussant: Noreen Tuross\, Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yu-dong-exploration-of-food-resources-by-a-neolithic-community-in-northern-china-perspectives-from-stable-isotope-analysis/
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 featuring Ji Li - How Rising Geopolitical Tensions are Impacting Chinese Firms Overseas
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ji Li\, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law\, University of California – Irvine \n\n\n\nRising geopolitical tensions have significantly amplified the risk of international trade and investment for Chinese firms. How do they cope with it? What is the role of law? How do their coping strategies implicate US-China relations? These important questions have received little academic attention. To narrow the gap\, Ji Li conducted multi-year surveys of Chinese companies operating in the US\, about 180 interviews with business and legal professionals\, and archival research involving numerous legal documents. The study found a theoretically and empirically nuanced picture featuring firm-level variations based on multiple factors such as ownership structure and cultural differences. Notably\, the coping strategies\, especially legal strategies\, adopted by Chinese firms have lasting impacts on both US law and US-China relations.  \n\n\n\nProfessor Li joined UCI Law in July 2019 as the John S. and Marilyn Long Professor of U.S.-China Business and Law. Prior to the appointment\, he was Professor of Law and Zhuang Zhou scholar at Rutgers University and a member of the Associate Faculty of the Division of Global Affairs. \n\n\n\nProfessor Li received a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Yale Law School where he was an Olin Fellow in Law\, Economics and Public Policy. After law school\, he practiced corporate and tax law for several years in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. \n\n\n\nProfessor Li’s teaching and scholarship explores a broad range of topics including Chinese law and politics\, international business transactions\, contracts\, comparative law\, and empirical legal studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-ji-li/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Mingwei Song - Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Digital China\, Digital China\n\n\n\n\nRegister for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mingwei Song\, Wellesley College \n\n\n\nSpecial Guests:Mu Ming\, Science Fiction WriterYan Feng\, Fudan University \n\n\n\nCohosts:David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityJie Li\, Harvard Univeristy \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5kFBIXkeQdSBPFNyJkoEAg#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mingwei-song-fear-of-seeing-a-poetics-of-chinese-science-fiction/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T120000
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SUMMARY:Craig Allen - China’s Economic Development Model: Implications for US-Japan Relations
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Craig Allen\, President\, US-China Business CouncilModerator: 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/craig-allen-chinas-economic-development-model-implications-for-us-japan-relations/
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:20240212T180000
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SUMMARY:The China Challenge and America's Future
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a special conversation with Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi\, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. This conversation will be moderated by former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Graham Allison\, and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Meghan O’Sullivan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-china-challenge-and-americas-future/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T153000
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SUMMARY:Jiajun Zou - Is Examination Success the Result of Geographical Luck? New Ming Provincial Examination Dataset and Its Macro Social and Historical Implications
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jiajun Zou\, Ph.D. Candidate in History\, Emory University  \n\n\n\nJiajun Zou introduces a fresh perspective to Ming dynasty studies with his pioneering dataset of 92\,000 juren profiles. In his presentation\, Zou will share his journey in assembling this comprehensive dataset\, utilizing a mix of CBDB resources\, computational techniques\, and prompt engineering via ChatGPT. He will then present statistical and macro-level evidence of a geographical bias within the examination system\, underscoring how proximity to examination centers at both the provincial and national levels significantly impacted odds of success. Zou contends that the examination system displayed a clear proximity bias\, favoring those closer to central hubs in terms of outlasting and exhausting their group competitors over time. The challenges faced by peripheral prefectures and regions are attributed not to a lack of talent—as some of the most distant prefectures produced the highest number of juren in China but only a handful of jinshi. Moving beyond the narratives of educational and intellectual traditions\, Zou explores whether rising costs of competition\, influenced by geographical and social dynamics\, shifted the balance of political power in Ming China. This presentation aims to highlight the value of a macro analytical approach using a large dataset to reveal hidden trends and to encourage modern scholars to independently tackle research challenges with innovative digital techniques. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Reigster: https://bit.ly/exam-luck \n\n\n\nAn event sponsored by China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) and Digital China Initiative (DCI)\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jiajun-zou-is-examination-success-the-result-of-geographical-luck-new-ming-provincial-examination-dataset-and-its-macro-social-and-historical-implications/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Meg Rithmire - Can the Chinese Financial System be Effective?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Meg Rithmire\, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business SchoolModerator: Daniel Koss\, Associate Senior Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe last 25 years have been turbulent ones for the PRC’s financial system. Efforts at liberalization in the early 2000s accelerated early in Xi Jinping’s tenure\, only to be met with a stock market crisis in 2015\, a crackdown on official and private sector market participants\, and then a serious reconfiguration of financial system governance. Now China appears on the verge of another stock market crisis. To transition from export and investment-driven growth to domestic consumption and innovation requires a modern financial system\, but modern financial systems do not tend to thrive under authoritarian rule. Is it possible for the CCP to develop deep financial markets? What do financial developments in China mean for its growth trajectory and its role as international financier? \n\n\n\nMeg Rithmire (任美格) is an associate professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit\, where she teaches the course of the same name in the MBA required curriculum. 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. 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. A new project investigates the influence of diasporas\, and the overseas Chinese communities in particular\, in the progress of economic and political reforms in the homeland. She is a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard. In 2015\, she won the Faculty Teaching Award in the Required Curriculum at Harvard Business School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-meg-rithmire/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2024 - Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event which provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference allows young scholars to present their research to both their peers and to renowned scholars in relevant fields. All panels will be moderated by Harvard University faculty. The conference will also allow participants to meet others in their research area conducting similar research and to forge new professional relationships.The theme of this year’s conference is: Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia. The knot is a traditional form of art that can be found throughout China\, Korea\, and Japan\, made from the orderly connection of different individual threads. The committee chose the figure of the knot to represent the intertwined memories\, legacies\, and histories of interaction between and throughout the different parts of the region we now call East Asia. We thus welcomed scholarship that attempts to bridge different spaces\, times\, and disciplines\, which includes (but is not limited to) history\, philosophy\, religion\, literature\, art history\, sociology\, anthropology\, archaeology\, economics\, political science\, gender studies\, environmental studies\, and law. Please find the conference schedule and booklet here. \n\n\n\nFor detailed information\, visit: https://linktr.ee/harvard_heas \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-east-asia-society-conference-2024-knots-complex-legacies-and-imagined-futures-of-east-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T153000
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SUMMARY:Transport and Communication in Late Imperial China: Routes and Costs
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruoran Cheng\, Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics. \n\n\n\nRuoran Cheng will introduce his work on transport routes and costs in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Using techniques from geographic information science and data from historical route books\, he has proposed a more accurate and comprehensive account of transport routes. Based on this and other data he has constructed the relative costs of different modes of transportation from 1202 to 1890. Currently\, he is also working on the connection between trade potential proxied by natural routes and the location of economic activities proxied by archeological sites in China for a period spanning from Neolithic villages (7000 BP) to the unified empire (2000 BP) \n\n\n\nSponsored by the China Biographical Database Project\, China Historical GIS\, and the Digital China Initiative \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/transport-and-communication-in-late-imperial-china-routes-and-costs/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S001\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T171500
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation - China-Russia Relations Two Years into Putin’s Ukraine War: How Strong\, For How Long? 
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); Visiting Professor\, Government Department\, Harvard University; Associate in Research\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesJulia Famularo\, Post-Doctoral Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesVitaly Kozyrev\, Distinguished Professor of Political Science & International Studies\, Endicott CollegeAlexandra Vacroux\, Executive Director\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard UniversityModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/special-presentation-friends-with-no-limits-assessing-the-strength-of-china-russia-relations/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Shaun SK Teo - Two Experiments in Theorizing (with) Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Shaun SK Teo\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nIs Chinese urbanization unique? What can we learn from Chinese urbanization? How might cases in urban China be integrated into global discussions on urban governance and transformation? This talk addresses these burning questions. Chinese urbanization presents rich cases for an engaged pluralism in urban studies. It has the potential to contribute to the revision of existing theoretical frameworks and to create new starting points for analysis between urban China and a wider range of contexts globally. These arguments are instantiated through two experiments to build concepts from and with a case study of a collaborative urban redevelopment project in Shenzhen. The first experiment is a comparative analysis between Shenzhen and a similar case in London. The second experiment builds elements for the re-theorization of Chinese state entrepreneurialism by conceptualizing from the ground in Shenzhen. Both experiments contribute to studies of urban governance by demonstrating the variegated logics and forms of emerging post-growth state programs and politics\, including those which allow parts of society to selectively influence policymaking. \n\n\n\nShaun SK Teo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography\, National University of Singapore. His research focuses on urban governance and its underpinning state-society politics\, theorizing from a ‘global East’ perspective. Ongoing research topics include municipal statecraft\, gentrification and informality. Shaun’s current research is a comparative analysis of the geographies of youth urban activisms  in Taipei\, and Bangkok and Singapore\, thinking specifically about how we can rethink urban activisms through the variegated practices of youth \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/92743598127 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-shawn-sk-teo/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Sophie Ling-chia Wei - A Sage Embellished with Elements of “Chinoiserie”: The Making of Jesus in the Jesuit Figurist Translations of Chinese Classics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sophie Ling-chia Wei\, Associate Professor\, Department of Translation\, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWhen Christianity was introduced to China in the Ming and Qing dynasties\, translations of sacred texts and stories of biblical figures were employed for the purpose of proselytization. The Jesuit Figurists’ translations took on lives of their own\, going on to create impact through new and interesting parallels between Chinese mythological figures and the image of Jesus Christ. The making of Jesus in the hands of the Jesuit Figurists revealed their intention of establishing a communal space between Christianity and Chinese history and culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sophie-ling-chia-wei-a-sage-embellished-with-elements-of-chinoiserie-the-making-of-jesus-in-the-jesuit-figurist-translations-of-chinese-classics/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Generative AI for Chinese Studies - Introductory Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDigital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The first workshop\, on 23 Feb 2024\, will introduce basic GenAI concepts\, writing prompts\, and examples of domain-specific tasks (language learning\, data extraction\, etc.). The second workshop\, on 5 April\, will cover how to use open-source large language models on local devices\, query through APIs\, and basic concepts of retrieval augment generation. \n\n\n\nThe workshops will be limited to 45 attendees each to ensure enough space and a quality learning environment. The following order of preference will apply: graduate students and faculty\, undergraduate students\, and Harvard affiliates. \n\n\n\nIn the introductory workshop\, we will work with the AI Sandbox created by HUIT and other commercial tools like Microsoft Copilot. Attendees should have a laptop that can access these services with them. \n\n\n\nIn the advanced workshop\, we will try out open-source large language models such as Qwen and Taiwan LLM. We will show how to access them through APIs. The workshop also covers an overview of retrieval augment generation that can offer more precise and domain-specific information. For these tasks\, attendees may need a laptop with 16GB of ram and at least 10 GB of SSD storage. They also have to install some software before attending the workshop. More information will be provided after enrollment confirmation.Registration:Introductory workshop: https://forms.office.com/r/AgLqaMvUk9Advanced workshop: https://forms.office.com/r/N9eRjE0RUL \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/generative-ai-for-chinese-studies-introductory-workshop/
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:20240226T160000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Michelle Wang - Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michelle H. Wang\, Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities\, Reed College \n\n\n\nIn The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China (University of Chicago Press\, 2023)\, Michelle H. Wang explores the diagrammatic tradition of rendering space in early China. The book centers on maps (ditu) excavated from three tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and constitute the entire known corpus of early Chinese maps. Unlike extant studies that draw heavily from the history of cartography\, the book offers an interdisciplinary account of the diversity of forms and functions in early Chinese ditu to argue that these pictures did not simply represent natural topography and built environments but rather made and remade worlds for the living and the dead. In this talk\, Wang will provide an overview of the leading questions and methods that underpin the project\, a case study that exemplifies their application\, and a proposal for future lines of inquiry. \n\n\n\nMichelle H. Wang is Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities at Reed College. She specializes in art and archaeology of tenth century BCE to third century CE China\, with an emphasis on early notational systems. Her research interests include artisanal practice\, history of technology\, excavated texts\, and mortuary culture. Her work has appeared in journals such as Artibus Asiae and Art History. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-michelle-wang-terrestrial-diagrams-in-early-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T181500
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation featuring Christopher Rea - From Zhuangzi’s Gourd to Cinderella’s Pumpkin: Gua 瓜 as a Vehicle for the Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christopher Rea\, Professor of Chinese\, Former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research\, University of British ColumbiaModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi tells us that one remedy for a lack of imagination is to take your gourd for a ride. Confucius makes a point about usefulness by comparing himself to a gourd (or is it a melon?). Gua 瓜 (cucurbits)—which include gourds\, melons\, pumpkins\, squash\, and bitter melon—abound in Chinese philosophy\, art\, poetry\, historiography\, and storytelling\, notably in late imperial novels such as Jin Ping Mei\, Journey to the West\, and Story of the Stone. Why? Christopher Rea argues that gua have several qualities that account for their enduring popularity in the figurative imagination\, including their sound\, shape\, seasonality\, variety\, and abundance. \n\n\n\nThis talk shares examples of how the cucurbitaceae—a vast family that is as diverse in its metaphorical usages as in its species—has been used in Chinese and other contexts as a vehicle for the imagination. The humble gua 瓜 has been used to represent ideas of consequence\, both physical—human anatomy\, China\, the earth—and conceptual—moral peril\, wealth\, glory days. Gua are a vehicle for rethinking the taxonomies that drive cultural historiography\, the distinctions scholars make between here and there\, this and that. In particular\, this talk will focus on why gua associations tend to be overripe\, and on how Chinese (and non-Chinese) sources have used melons and their kin to represent time itself. \n\n\n\nChristopher Rea is Professor of Chinese and former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia. He is the creator of the Chinese Film Classics Project\, whose website ChineseFilmClassics.org hosts the world’s largest online collection of early Chinese films with English subtitles\, as well as film clips\, essays\, links\, and an online course on early Chinese films. The websiteand the course are companions to his book Chinese Film Classics\, 1922-1949 (Columbia\, 2021)\, which has a Chinese edition forthcoming. Rea is also the author of the Levenson Prize-winning The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (California\, 2015; Rye Field\, 2018) and the co-author of Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (with Thomas Mullaney; Chicago\, 2022)\, which is also available in Chinese\, Japanese\, Korean\, and Polish. He is currently working on a second volume of The Book of Swindles (Columbia\, 2017) and on a cultural history of gua 瓜. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/special-presentation-featuring-christopher-rea-from-zhuangzis-gourd-to-cinderellas-pumpkin-gua-%e7%93%9c-as-a-vehicle-for-the-imagination/
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:20240228T120000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Minxin Pei - Surveillance in a Leninist Party-State: Understanding China’s Preventive Repression
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Minxin Pei\, Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow\, Claremont McKenna College \n\n\n\nChina’s surveillance state has attracted much attention in the media\, but there is little serious research on its organization\, scope\, and operational tactics.  Evidence gathered from hundreds of local yearbooks and police gazettes shows that the backbone of China’s surveillance state is an extensive network of informants and labor-intensive surveillance tactics which are made possible and run effectively by the Party’s Leninist organizational structure.  The adoption of hi-tech surveillance came relatively late – probably around 2010.  The Chinese Leninist party-state has the organizational capacity unmatched by other forms of dictatorship in building and maintaining an extensive and labor-intensive network of surveillance to implement preventive repression against potential threats.  Hi-tech capabilities strengthen such surveillance\, but do not and cannot substitute the underlying organizational structure.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-minxin-pei/
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:20240229T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T131500
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SUMMARY:Daniel H. Rosen - Spillover Implications of a China Growing 0-2%
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Daniel H. Rosen\, Founding Partner\, Rhodium Group \n\n\n\nEducators\, policymakers and business leaders need to decide how to respond to the implications of China’s economic slowdown. Options have not been adequately considered because the extent of the slowdown has not been understood and acknowledged. Even today international organizations\, governments\, and prominent public intellectuals endorse rosy assumptions that would not be taken seriously elsewhere. It’s time to talk about the slow growth era in China. To set the table for that\, the structural economic problems that reduce China’s potential growth to 0-2% must be recognized.  \n\n\n\nLunch will be served. It is being co-sponsored by the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F-x26T87QLqzaHmkQfnORg#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/daniel-h-rosen-spillover-implications-of-a-china-growing-0-2/
LOCATION:Wex-434ab Conference Room\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 JFK St.\, Camrbidge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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