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China Humanities Seminar featuring Michelle Wang – Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China
China Humanities Seminar featuring Michelle Wang – Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China
Speaker: Michelle H. Wang, Associate Professor of Art History and Humanities, Reed College In 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 […]
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Special Presentation featuring Christopher Rea – From Zhuangzi’s Gourd to Cinderella’s Pumpkin: Gua 瓜 as a Vehicle for the Imagination
Special Presentation featuring Christopher Rea – From Zhuangzi’s Gourd to Cinderella’s Pumpkin: Gua 瓜 as a Vehicle for the Imagination
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 The Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi tells us that one remedy for a lack of imagination is to take your gourd for a ride. Confucius makes a […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Minxin Pei – Surveillance in a Leninist Party-State: Understanding China’s Preventive Repression
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Minxin Pei – Surveillance in a Leninist Party-State: Understanding China’s Preventive Repression
Speaker: Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College China’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 […]
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Daniel H. Rosen – Spillover Implications of a China Growing 0-2%
Daniel H. Rosen – Spillover Implications of a China Growing 0-2%
Speaker: Daniel H. Rosen, Founding Partner, Rhodium Group Educators, 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 […]
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fa-Ti Fan – Disaster Governance and Political Participation in China: From the Mao Era to the Present
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fa-Ti Fan – Disaster Governance and Political Participation in China: From the Mao Era to the Present
Speaker: Fa-Ti Fan, Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York This talk discusses the modes of disaster governance and crisis management in China from the early Mao to the post-Covid era. We will start with the 1960s-70s when China was going through severe political crises, natural disasters, and geopolitical challenges. We will […]
Elizabeth Perry – Public Health, National Strength and Regime Legitimacy: China’s Patriotic Health Campaign
Elizabeth Perry – Public Health, National Strength and Regime Legitimacy: China’s Patriotic Health Campaign
Speaker: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This talk focuses on China's longest-lived mass movement: the Patriotic Health Campaign(PHC). Introduced by Mao Zedong in 1952 during the Korean War, the PHC continues even today, having recently played a role in Xi Jinping's Zero-Covid effort. The talk will question […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Wang Hui – China as a Multi-Ethnic Society: From Empire to Nation State
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Wang Hui – China as a Multi-Ethnic Society: From Empire to Nation State
Speaker: Wang Hui, Changjiang Scholar Professor, Department of Chinese Literature and the Department of History, Tsinghua University; Director, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Moderator/Discussant: Peter K. Bol, Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Univsersity Wang Hui‘s research interests includes Chinese intellectual history, Chinese literature, […]
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Echoes of the Past, Visions for the Future: The Power of Ideas to Navigate the China- West Divides
Speakers:Tiziana Lippiello, Ca’ FoscariMichael Puett, Harvard UniversityAnna Irene Baka, Harvard University; Ca’ FoscariBryan Van Norden, Vassar CollegeTao Jiang, Rutgers UniversityHsinning Liu, Academia SinicaWen Yu, Boston CollegeBenjamin Gallant, Harvard UniversityKaren Turner, Harvard University; College of the Holy CrossFranklin Perkins University of Hawai’iDimitra Amarantidou, University of MacauLisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideWang Hui, Tsinghua UniversityPeter Bol, Harvard […]
Ma Ran – Un/bounding the Great Wall: Sino-Japanese Documentary Media Connections in the Long 1980s
Ma Ran – Un/bounding the Great Wall: Sino-Japanese Documentary Media Connections in the Long 1980s
Speaker: Ma Ran, Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Screen Studies, Nagoya University, Japan; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair: Jie Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Spanning the late 1970s and early 1990s, a series of coproduced documentaries featuring Japanese entities in consistent partnership with China Central Television (CCTV), have emerged. Emblematic […]
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Julie Tian Miao – State Inc. And Asian Diasporas in Knowledge Spaces
Julie Tian Miao – State Inc. And Asian Diasporas in Knowledge Spaces
Speaker: Julie Tian Miao, Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development, University of Melbourne; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center Moderator: Anthony J. Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School Drawing insights from three relevant yet largely separated fields of scholarship on diaspora, science policies, and (extra-)territorial development, Professor Julie […]
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Michelle Miao – Health Code Apps as Social Control in China: Empirical Findings from the Pandemic
Michelle Miao – Health Code Apps as Social Control in China: Empirical Findings from the Pandemic
Speaker: Michelle Miao, Associate Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Fellow, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Michelle Miao is Associate Professor of Law at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her major areas of research include ethics of technological innovation, comparative law, criminal justice, law and society, and […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Christopher Courtney – Heat and the Urban Environment of Modern China
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Christopher Courtney – Heat and the Urban Environment of Modern China
Speaker: Christopher Courtney, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Durham University Throughout history, people living in Chinese cities have often had to contend with extreme heat. Although this is natural feature of the climate, it has been exacerbated by anthropogenic processes, which have transformed cities into urban heat islands. Drawing upon a variety of sources, […]
Mitchell Presnick – US-China Business Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Mitchell Presnick – US-China Business Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Speaker: Mitchell Presnick, Visiting Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Mr. Presnick will lead a fireside chat about his 30 years in China from 1988 - 2019. Topics will include serving on Budweiser’s（百威啤酒) China market entry team, founding the China practice of APCO Worldwide (安可顾问), a Washington, D.C. based global advisory and advocacy firm, founding […]
Big Waves, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 1 – China’s First Environmental Film – Big Tree County, featuring an introduction by Iza Ding
Big Waves, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 1 – China’s First Environmental Film – Big Tree County, featuring an introduction by Iza Ding
Introduction: Iza Ding, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityModerator: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with filmmaker Hao Zhiqiang. The Fairbank Center's Big Waves, Great Earthquakes screening series presents its first film, China’s First Environmental Film - Big Tree County (1992). Big Waves, Great […]
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Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable – Gender and Populist Nationalism in Asia
Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable – Gender and Populist Nationalism in Asia
Panelists:Hyaeweol Choi, C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of IowaIza Ding, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityTanika Sarkar, Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Visiting Professor, Ashoka UniversityChizuko Ueno, Professor Emerita, The University of Tokyo, Ph.D in Sociology Chair: Elizabeth J. Perry ,Henry Rosovsky Professor of […]
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Discussion of Technology and Innovation in China
Discussion of Technology and Innovation in China
***THIS EVENT HAS REACHED CAPACITY, ONLY PRE-REGISTERED ATTENDEES WILL BE ADMITTED*** Speakers:Bo An, 2023-24 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Andrew Kennedy, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National UniversityModerator:Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard UniversityFeaturing two short research presentations […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Thomas J. Christensen – Thomas Schelling, the United States, and China’s Rise
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Thomas J. Christensen – Thomas Schelling, the United States, and China’s Rise
Speaker: Thomas J. Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs *PLEASE NOTE DAY AND TIME CHANGE FROM OUR REGULAR CRITICAL ISSUES TALKS* Thomas Schelling’s theoretical work on coercive diplomacy carries important lessons for U.S. security policy toward a rising China. This talk will address the challenges in […]
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Rethinking China’s International Relations: China and the World Program 20th Annual Conference
Rethinking China’s International Relations: China and the World Program 20th Annual Conference
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is proud to present the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program's 20th Annual Conference, Rethinking China's International Relations, which will convene a roster of experts from top universities for panel discussions on China’s global influence, its economic slowdown, the Belt and Road Initiative, and what China is learning from […]
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Qinghua – From Government to Governance: Evidence from District Border Adjustments in China
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Qinghua – From Government to Governance: Evidence from District Border Adjustments in China
Speaker: Zhang Qinghua, Peking University This talk delves into the impact of within-city administrative border adjustments on individual firm productivity and local economic development. Employing a unique quasi-natural experiment conducted in China since the 1990s, the empirical analysis reveals that district border adjustments have a significant positive effect on the TFP of manufacturing firms in the […]
Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China’s Toilet Revolution
Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China’s Toilet Revolution
Speaker: Nicole Barnes, Associate Professor of History, Duke University More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Liu Qing – How the Idea of Tianxia Can Help Us to Reimagine the Global Order
Liu Qing – How the Idea of Tianxia Can Help Us to Reimagine the Global Order
Speaker: Liu Qing, Zijiang Distinguished Professor, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Discussant: Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University With the ascent of China on the global stage, traditional Chinese thoughts, particularly Confucianism, have experienced a resurgence. Over the past two decades, the concept […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Susan Greenhalgh – The Hidden Life and Agenda of the Three-Child Policy
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Susan Greenhalgh – The Hidden Life and Agenda of the Three-Child Policy
Speaker: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, Harvard University After years of rapid fertility decline, China is facing plummeting birth rates, a shrinking work force, and rapid aging. In 2016, Beijing abandoned its notorious one-child policy, allowing two and, in 2021, three children per couple. Outside China, the three-child policy […]
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Taiwan Conference: Tension in the Taiwan Strait: The Role of U.S. Allies
Taiwan Conference: Tension in the Taiwan Strait: The Role of U.S. Allies
Speakers:Akio Takahara, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Politics, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of TokyoJa-Ian Chong, Associate Professor of Political Science, National University of SingaporeSatu Limaye, Vice President, East-West Center; Director, East-West Center in Washington This event examines the risks for conflict in the Taiwan Strait and the implications that the changed geo-strategic environment has […]
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Jedidiah Korncke – Thomas Jefferson, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement
Jedidiah Korncke – Thomas Jefferson, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement
Speaker: Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Professor Kroncke’s study recovers a lost era of Sino-American constitutional imagination surrounding the drafting of the 1946 Republic of China Constitution. It examines the transnational dynamics that led the Constitution’s initial drafter, Carsun Chang, to travel to the U.S. in 1945 to ostensibly study […]
Community Viewing Event – Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements
Community Viewing Event – Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements
Join us in browsing and reflecting upon Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements at our Community Viewing Event at the Cabot Library Discovery Bar from 6:30-8PM on Friday, March 29th. Uyghur laghman noodles and wontons will be provided! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/coalitionPoF About the Exhibition: While history and society often highlight the prominent male figures, womxn play pivotal roles as […]
Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Edward Yang’s cinematic swan song, released at the turn of the millennium, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly global, capitalist and mediated urban society. Yi Yi opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral. What unfolds between love and death is everything that saturates […]
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Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Similar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989), A Brighter Summer Day also traces the experiences of a large family during a critical historical epoch in Taiwan. Set in the early 1960s, against the backdrop of a society witnessing the consequences of major demographic shifts and political oppression, this film depicts the difficult trials awaiting the simple and harmonious life […]
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Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)
Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)
A satirical comedy with biting wit and a romance that is equally suspicious of and hopeful about love, this film ambitiously negotiates the coexistence of Confucianism with capitalism and democracy. In what feels like a second take of his Taipei Story, Yang stages a frantic tango that is danced not with two but twelve. A circle of closely […]
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China Humanities Seminar featuring John Kieschnick – MSG, Vegan Soap, Karma and Tofu: Chinese Vegetarianism in the Early 20th Century
China Humanities Seminar featuring John Kieschnick – MSG, Vegan Soap, Karma and Tofu: Chinese Vegetarianism in the Early 20th Century
Speaker: John Kieschnick, Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies, Stanford University Drawing on newspapers, essays, memoirs, correspondence and Buddhist journals, this talk will outline the major trends in Chinese vegetarianism from 1900-1950, attempting to capture the diverse motivations, arguments and innovations in the anti-meat movement in China in the first half of […]
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Margaret Hillenbrand – On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Margaret Hillenbrand – On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
Speaker: Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford University On the evening of November 18th, 2017, a blaze broke out in a two-story building in Xinjian urban village, just outside Beijing’s sixth ring road. At least 19 people, including 8 children, died in the flames. Using fire safety […]
Rethinking Taiwan and the World: Presentations by the Fairbank Center’s 2023-24 Fellows in Taiwan Studies
Rethinking Taiwan and the World: Presentations by the Fairbank Center’s 2023-24 Fellows in Taiwan Studies
Speakers:Shinyi Hsieh, Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center; PhD, History of Health Sciences Program, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California-San Francisco - Navigating Geomedical Borders: A Critical Analysis of NAMRU-2’s Operations in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, 1955-1975. Anatol Klass, Hou Family Predoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center; PhD Candidate in History, […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Angela Huyue Zhang – Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Angela Huyue Zhang – Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
Speaker: Angela Huyue Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Director, Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law China’s economy is at a crossroads, facing its most significant challenges in recent memory. Amidst this economic turmoil, a fierce debate has emerged among experts: Is the current economic downturn a result of ingrained […]
The Future of US-Taiwan Relations: A conversation with Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan’s Representative to the US
The Future of US-Taiwan Relations: A conversation with Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan’s Representative to the US
Speaker: Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan Representative to the United States Harvard-ID holders are invited to join us for a discussion with Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan’s Representative to the United States, to mark the 45th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act and discuss the future of US-Taiwan relations. Tony Saich, Rajawali Institute Director and Daewoo Professor […]
Modern China Lecture featuring Uluğ Kuzuoğlu – Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age
Modern China Lecture featuring Uluğ Kuzuoğlu – Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age
Speaker: Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, Assistant Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of communication, obstructing mass literacy, and impeding scientific progress. […]
U.S. – China Relations Today
U.S. – China Relations Today
Speakers:Da Wei, Director, Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS); Professor of Department of International Relations, School of Social Science, Tsinghua University.Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard University Join the Greater China Society at Harvard Kennedy School for a discussion on U.S.-China relations featuring Professors Da Wei and Rana Mitter, leading scholars […]
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Glen S. Fukushima – U.S. Trade Policy, Japan, and China
Glen S. Fukushima – U.S. Trade Policy, Japan, and China
Speaker: Glen S. Fukushima, Vice Chair, Securities Investor Protection Corporation; Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China Glen S. Fukushima was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden to serve as Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation in October 2021 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2022. After graduating […]
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Wu Helin – From Serampore to Singapore: The Making of the Missionary Enterprise to China (1800-1840)
Wu Helin – From Serampore to Singapore: The Making of the Missionary Enterprise to China (1800-1840)
Speaker: Wu Helin, Associate Research Fellow, India Study Center, Central China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, Indian Studies In China Program, 2023-24 Discussant: Dana L. Robert, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University Venue
Generative AI for Chinese Studies – Advanced Workshop
Generative AI for Chinese Studies – Advanced Workshop
Digital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The 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. The workshops will be limited to 45 attendees each to ensure enough space and […]
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