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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Fa-Ti Fan - Disaster Governance and Political Participation in China: From the Mao Era to the Present
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fa-Ti Fan\, Professor of History\, Binghamton University\, State University of New York \n\n\n\nThis 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 then broaden the timeframe and trace major similarities and changes in disaster governance from the early years of the communist regime to the present. My main focus is on state policies\, but I will also discuss political participation from various social and political groups in times of disaster or crisis. \n\n\n\nProfessor Fan is a historian of science and of modern China. His research and teaching have focused on three related areas – history of environmental sciences\, 20th-century China\, and science and empire. He is the author of British Naturalists in Qing China: Science\, Empire\, and Cultural Encounter (2004; Chinese translation 2011) and dozens of essays on a range of topics in history and in science studies. He is currently completing two books\, one on earthquakes in communist China and the other on science and politics in republican China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-fa-ti-fan-disaster-governance-and-political-participation-in-china-from-the-mao-era-to-the-present/
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:20240305T170000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Perry - Public Health\, National Strength and Regime Legitimacy: China’s Patriotic Health Campaign
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth J. Perry\,  Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nThis 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 the official characterization of the PHC as a “uniquely Chinese” approach to sanitation and epidemic control\, noting the influence of the American Tuberculosis Movement and YMCA health campaigns\, while at the same time emphasizing the central importance of public health in the legitimation of Chinese Communist rule\, from revolutionary days to the present. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/elizabeth-perry-public-health-national-strength-and-regime-legitimacy-chinas-patriotic-health-campaign/
LOCATION:Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University\, 121 Bay State Rd\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Wang Hui - China as a Multi-Ethnic Society: From Empire to Nation State
DESCRIPTION: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 \n\n\n\nModerator/Discussant: Peter K. Bol\, Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard Univsersity \n\n\n\nWang Hui‘s research interests includes Chinese intellectual history\, Chinese literature\, and social theory. His recent publications include The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought and China’s Twentieth Century.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-wang-hui/
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:20240308T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240309T134500
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
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SUMMARY:Echoes of the Past\, Visions for the Future: The Power of Ideas to Navigate the China- West Divides
DESCRIPTION: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 University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/echoes-of-the-past-visions-for-the-future-the-power-of-ideas-to-navigate-the-china-west-divides/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
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SUMMARY:Ma Ran - Un/bounding the Great Wall: Sino-Japanese Documentary Media Connections in the Long 1980s
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ma Ran\,  Associate Professor\, Cultural Studies and Screen Studies\, Nagoya University\, Japan; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nChair: Jie Li\, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSpanning 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 of the Sino-Japanese “techno-friendship\,” these projects launched spectacular trans-China voyages undertaken by transnational film and television teams along the routes and territories across the Silk Road\, the Yangtze River\, and the Yellow River. This talk highlights the Great Wall project\, encompassing CCTV’s Wang Changcheng (Odyssey of the Great Wall) and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS)’s Banri no chōjō (the Great Wall); both aired in 1991. \n\n\n\nThese projects arguably constitute an epistemological-technological nexus wherein the CCTV crews explore “what could be documentary(-making)” through/out the location shooting; leveraging the nexus\, the Japanese teams gain privileged access to locations and infrastructural networks\, enabling them to configure a multilayered Sino-fantasy\, underpinned by documentary epistephilia toward Chinese histories\, cultural heritages\, and post-Cultural Revolution conditions of the PRC. \n\n\n\nI contemplate the Great Wall project’s dis/continuation of the techno-friendship mode. CCTV and TBS have used their journeys along the Great Wall territories to work through disparate landscape-affective assemblages while negotiating East Asian (post-)Cold War geopolitics. While the Sino-fantasy of Banri no chōjō is drastically reterritorialized by its studio-staged reportage on the Tiananmen Incident\, Wang Changcheng reinvents a self-scrutinizing gaze upon “China” in the aftermath of Tian’anmen\, innovatively realigning the political aesthetics of documentary (jilupian). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ma-ran-un-bounding-the-great-wall-sino-japanese-documentary-media-connections-in-the-long-1980s/
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:20240318T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240318T133000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
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SUMMARY:Julie Tian Miao - State Inc. And Asian Diasporas in Knowledge Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Julie Tian Miao\, Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development\, University of Melbourne; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center  \n\n\n\nModerator: Anthony J. Saich\, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nDrawing insights from three relevant yet largely separated fields of scholarship on diaspora\, science policies\, and (extra-)territorial development\, Professor Julie Miao will conceptualize and assess how Asian tech diasporas experience knowledge space as an assemblage of ‘ethnoscape’ and ‘ideoscape’ – terms used by Appadurai\, 1990 to chart the global landscapes of modernity. Focusing on Chinese\, Japanese\, and Korean diasporas working in biotech and related sectors in the Boston Metropolitan area\, her study used ethnography and thick descriptions to examine the forming of Asian diasporas’ lived and worked experience as part of the ethnoscape and how it is shaping and shaped by the ideoscape of their homeland. Emerging evidence shows that inter-generation differences in the forming and evolving of an ethnoscape are much stronger than the inter-nationality differences; the stereotypical views about Asia and Asian people are as much self-reinforced as they are externally imposed. Most Asian tech diaspora members aim to embed themselves in the host country’s science and technology landscape\, and it is the United States’ extraterritorial and national security policies that are exerting a far more significant impact on their career projections and ambitions compared to their homeland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/julie-tian-miao-state-inc-and-asian-diasporas-in-knowledge-spaces/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T132000
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SUMMARY:Michelle Miao - Health Code Apps as Social Control in China: Empirical Findings from the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michelle Miao\, Associate Professor of Law\, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Fellow\, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences \n\n\n\nMichelle 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 rule of law and authoritarianism. As a CUHK-Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow for 2023-2024\, she is working on a project exploring the interaction between artificial intelligence and the shifting paradigm of authoritarian governance. Professor Miao is an awardee of the American Society of Comparative Law’s Hessel Yntema Prize for the most outstanding scholarship by a scholar under 40 years of age. \n\n\n\nBoxed lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michelle-miao-health-code-apps-as-social-control-in-china-empirical-findings-from-the-pandemic/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T173000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Christopher Courtney - Heat and the Urban Environment of Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christopher Courtney\, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History\, Durham University \n\n\n\nThroughout 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\, including oral histories collected in the “furnace city” of Wuhan\, this paper examines how people have understood and sought to cope with the problem of extreme heat in China since the beginning of the twentieth century. It describes how\, at the beginning of this era\, traditional ideas about heat toxins and malign qi were challenged by biomedical theories about thermoregulation\, eventually forming the syncretic blend of ideas about heat and health that exists in China today. This paper then examines how new technologies\, such electric fans\, air-conditioning\, and refrigeration\, promised to alleviate the effects of extreme heat. Yet it describes how these technologies met with resistance\, from those who believed that unnatural forms of thermal comfort could injure your health. The paper continues by exploring how\, in the austere years following 1949\, bourgeois cooling technologies were rejected in favour of a new modes of heat governance. While the Maoist state promoted alternative technologies\, such as the air raid shelter air-conditioning and earth refrigerators\, most people relied upon even humbler technologies\, such as bamboo beds and hand fans. Finally\, this paper describes how\, since the 1990s\, China has witnessed the inexorable rise of cooling technologies. Air-conditioning and refrigeration have helped to reshape cities and transform lifestyles yet have had a dramatic effect upon the environment.  \n\n\n\nChris Courtney is an Associate Professor in Modern Chinese History at the University of Durham\, UK. His research focusses largely upon the environmental and social history of Wuhan. His monograph The Nature of Disaster in China (published in Chinese as 龙王之怒)examined the history of the 1931 Central China Flood. He has also published on topics including the history of environmental religion\, fire disasters\, and Maoist flood (mis)management. Over the past few years\, he has been collaborating with colleagues at the National University of Singapore on a project examining the historical and contemporary problem of heat in Asian cities. His next monograph is tentatively entitled A World History Wuhan.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-christopher-courtney/
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:20240319T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T201500
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
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SUMMARY:Big Waves\, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 1 - China's First Environmental Film - Big Tree County\, featuring an introduction by Iza Ding
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Iza Ding\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Northwestern UniversityModerator: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with filmmaker Hao Zhiqiang. \n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center’s Big Waves\, Great Earthquakes screening series presents its first film\, China’s First Environmental Film – Big Tree County (1992). \n\n\n\nBig Waves\, Great Earthquakes explores the largely unseen early history of independent film in China\, beginning in the late 1980s. Wu Wenguang— who’s usually credited as China’s first independent filmmaker— has likened the emotions of this era to a “big wave”; Wu’s contemporary\, Wen Pulin\, was working independently even earlier\, documenting the avant-garde arts scene in Beijing with his legendary\, but never-completed\, film The Great Earthquake. This screening series will unearth films long-suppressed by Chinese authorities in order to rewrite the narrative of modern film history in China. \n\n\n\nFilmmaker Hao Zhiqiang has said that he wants to capture “the soul of the Chinese people” with his work. His first two films do this by showing how larger forces (the wind-like momentum of history and a town that cut down the giant tree it was named after) can render society helpless to change. Wind (1988) is the first independently produced animated film ever made in China; it  meditates on the legacy of the Cultural Revolution\, and how it shaped the social and political attitudes of many artists and intellectuals in the late 1980s. Big Tree County (1992) may well be China’s first environmental film: While working at CCTV in the early ‘90s\, Hao was inspired by a newspaper article describing a sulfur-iron mining town to haul his station’s equipment hundreds of miles to the border of Sichuan\, Yunnan\, and Guizhou provinces and film a village whose “Big Tree” had been chopped down decades earlier to build the pollution-spewing\, labor-exploiting sulfur-iron mine that came to define the town. This modest but rigorous example of “direct cinema” documentary registers a forceful sociopolitical activism and an uncommon concern for environmental issues. \n\n\n\nIza Ding is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Her research explores modernity and its discontents\, especially in areas related to the environment\, climate change\, bureaucracy\, populism\, nationalism\, morality\, political memory\, and ideology. Her recent publications include The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China (Cornell University Press 2022)\, and articles in World Politics\, Comparative Political Studies\, Democratization\, Studies in Comparative International Development\, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management\, and China Quarterly. She is working on a book-length monograph on the global historical waves of environmentalism. She received her Ph.D in Government from Harvard University and her BA in Political Science and Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Michigan. \n\n\n\nWind directed by Hao Zhiqiang. China\, 1988\, animated\, 7 min.Big Tree County directed by Hao Zhiqiang. China\, 1992\, documentary\, 42 min. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-big-tree-county-featuring-an-introduction-by-iza-ding/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T193000
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SUMMARY:Mitchell Presnick - US-China Business Relations: Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mitchell Presnick\, Visiting Fellow\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  \n\n\n\nMr. 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 Super 8 Hotels China (中国速8酒店连锁) an economy hotel chain with over 1100 locations\, and serving as board member and vice chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in China during China’s accession to the GATT (now WTO).  \n\n\n\nWe will also explore current opportunities and challenges inherent in US-China business relations in the post-engagement era.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mitchell-presnick-us-china-business-relations-past-present-and-future/
LOCATION:Room K354\, CGIS Knafel\, 1737 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T173000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
CREATED:20240207T172503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240307T181714Z
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SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable - Gender and Populist Nationalism in Asia
DESCRIPTION: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 \n\n\n\nChair: Elizabeth J. Perry \,Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-institute-annual-roundtable-gender-and-nationalist-populism-in-asia/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T150000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
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SUMMARY:Discussion of Technology and Innovation in China 
DESCRIPTION:***THIS EVENT HAS REACHED CAPACITY\, ONLY PRE-REGISTERED ATTENDEES WILL BE ADMITTED*** \n\n\n\nSpeakers: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 followed by a roundtable discussion.  \n\n\n\nPost-maintenance: the Chinese Software Crisis in the 1980s\, presented by Bo An \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, I present a brief history of early Chinese computer software leading up to a crisis in maintenance in the 1980s\, which was one of the main causes for the failure of building an indigenous computing industry in the PRC. Through this forgotten chapter\, I hope to shed light on the broader context of the shift during the Deng period from self-reliance to foreign technology transfer\, especially from the perspective of technological infrastructure. This allows a more nuanced understanding of the post-socialist transition and the dynamics between self-reliance and foreign dependency\, as well as between the issues of innovation and maintenance in a long history of technology.  \n\n\n\nBo An holds a combined Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies from Yale University. Based on research into the history and theory of information technology in modern China\, his dissertation examines the rise of computing in the People’s Republic of China between the 1940s and 1980s. Dr. An is currently investigating post-1980s applied computing and the longer global history of science behind it.   \n\n\n\nChina’s New Paradigm: How the Party Learned to Love the Innovation System\, presented by Andrew Kennedy  \n\n\n\nChina’s pursuit of “innovation-driven development” has become central to its rise in the 21st century.  China’s approach to science\, technology\, and innovation has evolved considerably\, however\, and remains difficult to understand.  This presentation highlights the policy paradigms behind China’s changing approach and how CCP leaders have embraced and localized the concept of the innovation system in particular.     \n\n\n\nAndrew Kennedy is Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.  He is the author of The Conflicted Superpower: America’s Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation (Columbia 2018) and The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru: National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy (Cambridge 2012)\, among others.  His current research focuses on China’s approach to science and technology since 1949 and China’s rise as a technology power in the 21st century. Please register for this discussion at: https://forms.office.com/r/6PBbnhWYm9.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/discussion-of-technology-and-innovation-in-china/
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:20240321T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T174500
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Thomas J. Christensen - Thomas Schelling\, the United States\, and China’s Rise
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Thomas J. Christensen\, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations\, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs \n\n\n\n*PLEASE NOTE DAY AND TIME CHANGE FROM OUR REGULAR CRITICAL ISSUES TALKS* \n\n\n\nThomas 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 combining credible threats and credible assurances in deterring a PRC military attack on Taiwan and the need to differentiate clearly between unconditional restrictions on the transfer of militarily relevant technology to China and conditional threats to punish China economically if Beijing adopts certain proscribed policies. \n\n\n\nNote: Thomas Christensen serves as a Senior Advisor to the Office of China Coordination at the U.S. Department of State.  All opinions expressed in this talk and in the discussion that follows are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Government. \n\n\n\nThomas J. Christensen is James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations and Director of the China and the World program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. From 2006 to 2008\, he served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs\, with responsibility for relations with China\, Taiwan\, and Mongolia.  He is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution\, a life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and editor of the Nancy B. Tucker and Warren I. Cohen book series on the United States in Asia at the Columbia University Press.  He received a Distinguished Public Service Award from the United States Department of State. \n\n\n\nHis research and teaching focuses on China’s foreign relations\, the international relations of East Asia\, and international security. Previously\, he taught at Princeton University\, MIT\, and Cornell University. He received his bachelor’s from Haverford College\, his master’s in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania\, and a doctorate in political science from Columbia University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-thomas-j-christensen/
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:20240322T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T171500
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
CREATED:20240226T144329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240321T134539Z
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SUMMARY:Rethinking China's International Relations: China and the World Program 20th Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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 recent wars around the globe.  \n\n\n\nThe China and the World Program is directed by Thomas J. Christensen\, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations\, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs\, and Alastair Iain Johnston\, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs\, Harvard University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9:00 AM: Introduction: China and the World Program & Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesAlastair Iain Johnston\, Harvard UniversityThomas J. Christensen\, Columbia UniversityMark Wu\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n9:15 AM: PANEL #1 – Measuring China’s ‘Influence’ in International AffairsAudrye Wong\, University of Southern CaliforniaInjoo Sohn\, Seoul National UniversityAndrew Chubb\, Lancaster UniversityEnze Han\, Hong Kong UniversityModerator: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Harvard University11:00 AM: PANEL #2 – Foreign Policy Implications of the PRC’s Economic SlowdownHong Zhang\, Harvard UniversityYeling Tan\, University of OxfordAndrew Kennedy\, Australian National UniversityModerator: Meg Rithmire\, Harvard UniversityMid-day Break \n\n\n\n1:30 PM: PANEL #3 – Prospects for the Belt and Road InitiativeMin Ye\, Boston UniversityAdele Carrai\, New York UniversityEyck Freymann\, Stanford UniversityModerator: Rana Mitter\, Harvard University3:15 PM: PANEL #4 – What Chinese Leaders Are Learning from Recent WarsAndrew Erickson\, U.S. Naval War CollegeDawn Murphy\, National War CollegeTyler Jost\, Brown UniversityModerator: Alexandra Vacroux\, Harvard University 5:00 PM: Closing Remarks: Director\, China and the World ProgramThomas J. Christensen\, Columbia University \n\n\n\nThe day’s events are free with registration. Go to cwp.sipa.columbia.edu or https://forms.gle/pMRHYALvvaBEaLF87 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/international-conference-on-china-and-the-world/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T100000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
CREATED:20240123T161342Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Zhang Qinghua - From Government to Governance: Evidence from District Border Adjustments in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Zhang Qinghua\, Peking University \n\n\n\nThis 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 adjusted districts. The firms situated in the border towns of the districts reap the most benefits. Further investigation into the mechanism indicates that district border adjustments enhance firms’ productivity by 1) internalizing the positive externalities generated by agglomeration economies of industry clusters\, 2) removing extra administrative costs for firms situated in the border towns\, and 3) helping alleviate the spatial constraints faced by high-density core districts. These adjustments ultimately lead to enhanced industry specialization and more efficient capital allocation at the district level. The study also shows that district border adjustments have a significantly positive impact on the overall economic development of border towns\, as evidenced by the increased intensity of nightlights. \n\n\n\nDr. Qinghua Zhang holds a professorship in the Department of Applied Economics at Guanghua School of Management\, Peking University. She also serves as the director of Peking University’s Center for Energy Economics and Sustainable Growth. Currently\, she is a visiting scholar at MIT’s Center for Real Estate. Dr. Zhang got her Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 2003. Her research is focused on Urban Economics\, Public Finance\, Environmental Economics and Search and Matching. She has published in esteemed economic journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics\, Journal of Monetary Economics\, Journal of Public Economics\, Journal of Urban Economics\, Journal of Development Economics\, Rand Journal of Economics\, and the Journal of Econometrics. Dr. Zhang currently sits on the Editorial Board of both the Journal of Urban Economics and the Journal of Housing Economics. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the Ashoka University Centre for China Studies\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, the University at Buffalo (SUNY)\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event. Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar. \n\n\n\nZoom Meeting Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/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-zhang-qinghua/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T114500
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
CREATED:20240215T141105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T155126Z
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SUMMARY:Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China's Toilet Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Nicole Barnes\, Associate Professor of History\, Duke University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/racing-to-be-a-better-race-a-longue-duree-history-of-chinas-toilet-revolution/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
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SUMMARY:Liu Qing - How the Idea of Tianxia Can Help Us to Reimagine the Global Order
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Qing\, Zijiang Distinguished Professor\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Peter K. Bol\, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWith the ascent of China on the global stage\, traditional Chinese thoughts\, particularly Confucianism\, have experienced a resurgence. Over the past two decades\, the concept of “Tianxia” (All Under Heaven) has garnered significant interest. This research delves into the potential contributions of Tianxia to contemporary political thought\, with a focus on normative theory. It examines whether this concept can aid in mitigating ultranationalism in our globalized era and foster a novel global perspective that encourages peaceful coexistence\, mutual respect\, and shared progress among nations. The presentation is structured into two main sections. The first section offers a critical examination of recent discussions surrounding Tianxia\, highlighting its contemporary relevance as intellectual inspirations while acknowledging its inherent limitations. The second section deals with the challenges posed by cultural diversity in establishing foundational norms for a post-hegemonic world order. It emphasizes the need for a new global vision that transcends both the Sinocentrism associated with Tianxia and the Eurocentrism prevalent in traditional cosmopolitanism\, and makes an argument in advocating for a new cosmopolitanism centered around the concept of “transcultural universality.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lu-qing-how-the-idea-of-tianxia-can-help-us-to-reimagine-the-global-order/
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:20240327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T131500
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
CREATED:20240221T152958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T172823Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Susan Greenhalgh - The Hidden Life and Agenda of the Three-Child Policy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Emerita\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAfter 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 has been panned by demographers and condemned by feminists. Yet no one has considered the impact the politics and governance of the Xi Jinping era have had on this project to boost the birthrate. Greenhalgh argues that China’s leaders have extended Xi’s “new-style whole-of-government” approach to governance from the technology to the population sector. This involves a profound shift from relying on governmental power to co-governance by government\, society\, and citizens themselves. How is the all-of-government approach being adapted to foster not the development of AI\, but cultural and behavioral change among real people? If the aim of the 2021 policy is not to create a society of three-child families\, a sociological impossibility\, what is the aim? What happens when a party-state controlling highly effective tools of digital surveillance and mass intervention faces off against a generation of well-educated young women (and men) unwilling to give up their jobs and their freedom to follow the party’s call to have more than one child? \n\n\n\nSusan Greenhalgh is the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Emerita in the Fairbank Center and the Anthropology Department at Harvard. Her teaching and research interests include the social study of science\, medicine\, and technology; the anthropology of the state\, governance\, and public policy; and the politics of reproduction/population. She is the author of Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China\, Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China\, and Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (fall 2024)\, as well as co-author of Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-susan-greenhalgh-brijings-whole-of-nation-plan-to-boost-the-birthrate-what-happens-when-it-ramps-up/
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:20240328T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T183000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
CREATED:20240321T193109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240321T194226Z
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Conference: Tension in the Taiwan Strait: The Role of U.S. Allies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: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 \n\n\n\nThis event examines the risks for conflict in the Taiwan Strait and the implications that the changed geo-strategic environment has for the US\, Taiwan\, the Sino-US relationship and the US-led system of alliances in the region. It builds on a series of BUCSA events about Taiwan’s security that we have held over the past few years\, including a talk with Taiwan Defense Minister Andrew Yang in the Spring of 2021 and a presentation and discussion with senior US diplomat Chas Freeman in March 2022. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, visit: https://www.bu.edu/asian/2023/12/04/taiwan-conference-tension-in-the-taiwan-strait-the-role-of-u-s-allies-march-28-2024/ .  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-conference-tension-in-the-taiwan-strait-the-role-of-u-s-allies/
LOCATION:Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University\, 121 Bay State Rd\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Taiwan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T132000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
CREATED:20240313T154636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T154638Z
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SUMMARY:Jedidiah Korncke - Thomas Jefferson\, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jedidiah Kroncke\, Associate Professor of Law\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nProfessor 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 the ideas of Thomas Jefferson then ascendant in New Deal constitutional rhetoric. \n\n\n\nThis study recontextualizes Chang’s life as one of China’s new generation of cosmopolitan intellectuals moving between its contentious post-dynastic politics and the institutions of the post-World War II international legal order. Chang’s invitation by the Roosevelt Administration involved many little known but determinative turns\, including the role of a subset of Truman Administration officials actively enamored with Jefferson’s own study of Confucianism. \n\n\n\nTransnationalizing our understanding of the 1946 Constitution helps reveal how the geopolitics of the Chinese Civil War intersected with the presumed projection of American constitutional values increasingly embedded in American internationalism. The fallout from the drafting process also illuminates the transition of America from a global symbol of constitutional revolution to a symbol of global racial empire. Recapturing this era has implications for originalist-styled constitutional arguments made in contemporary Taiwan\, as well as evaluating the international dimensions of Jefferson’s deeply problematic domestic legacy. \n\n\n\nDr. Jedidiah Kroncke is an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong\, where he teaches trust law and the law of cooperative enterprises\, and serves as Director of Early Career Research and Director of the Global Academic Fellows program. Previously\, he was a professor at FGV Sao Paulo School of Law and Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School. Professor Kroncke’s research centers on international legal history and the comparative study of alternative labor and property institutions. His first book\, The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law (Oxford University Press 2016)\, explores the role of U.S.-China relations in the formation of modern American legal internationalism and the decline of American legal comparativism. Other publications have addressed law and development\, authoritarian law and legal ethics\, the history of international law\, and comparative law and political economy. He received a B.A. from the University of California Berkeley\, a J.D. from Yale Law School\, and a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from UC Berkeley\, and then served as the HLS Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow\, NYU Golieb Fellow in Legal History\, and Ruebhausen Fellow in Law at Yale Law. \n\n\n\nBoxed lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jedidiah-korncke-thomas-jefferson-carsun-chang-and-a-lost-era-of-u-s-china-constitutional-engagement/
LOCATION:Morgan Courtroom\, Austin Hall\, 1515 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240325T162830Z
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SUMMARY:Community Viewing Event - Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements
DESCRIPTION:rsvp form\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin 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 \n\n\n\nAbout the Exhibition: While history and society often highlight the prominent male figures\, womxn play pivotal roles as activists\, leaders\, thinkers\, and everyday participants. Yet\, their stories frequently remain in the shadows. Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements aims to shed warranted light on stories of womxn’s dignity\, humanity and resilience in times of profound difficulty and danger. This photo exhibition celebrates the womxn who have played pivotal roles in the Tibetan\, Uyghur\, Hong Konger\, Taiwanese\, and Chinese freedom movements as academics\, survivors\, government officials\, lawyers\, movement leaders\, and more. Our wish is that Portraits of Freedom will uplift the truth and lived experiences of these womxn in our movements and histories. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/community-viewing-event-portraits-of-freedom-the-womxn-driving-our-freedom-movements/
LOCATION:Cabot Library Discovery Bar\, 1 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T220000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
CREATED:20240216T163132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T163134Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …)\, with introduction by Kalli Peng
DESCRIPTION: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 our modern existence: awakening\, nostalgia\, contingency\, anxiety\, alienation\, the ennui of everyday banality and the oscillations between longings for interpersonal dependence and fears of intimacy. This three-hour-long audiovisual epic unfolds the confusions and struggles of the multigenerational Jian family. As the grandmother falls into a coma\, the family members take turns sitting at her bedside relaying their life to her\, only to hear their own doubts and uncertainties reverberate in the resounding silence. At his tenderest moment\, Yang\, through Yi Yi\, delicately\, wisely and elegantly portrays the poignant reminiscences of the stirrings of first love and unveils the beauty that all too often shies away in the face of a perceived emptiness of life. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Wu Nien-Jen\, Elaine Jin\, Issey Ogata \n\n\n\nTaiwan/Japan 2000\, 35mm\, color\, 173 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Hokkien\, English\, Japanese and French with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-yi-yi-a-one-and-a-two-with-introduction-by-kalli-peng/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T220000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
CREATED:20240216T163724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T163726Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian)\, with introduction by Kalli Peng
DESCRIPTION: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 of the Zhang family. With Yang’s exacting demands on the historical accuracy of the props\, such as the family house and the furniture in the classrooms\, A Brighter Summer Day splendidly restores the material historical world to us while inquiring into its zeitgeist. Caught between the world of rock ‘n’ roll\, gang rivalry\, love triangles and the White Terror paranoia\, a group of teenagers are compelled to learn to negotiate the tensions and discrepancy between ideals and reality. The adolescent struggles in grasping that which is worth holding on to\, be it people or principle\, turn out to be an inescapable fate for adults alike. \n\n\n\nWidely considered as Yang’s magnum opus\, this film\, based on a real-life murder\, launched Chang Chen’s acting career at the age of fourteen. The brilliant juxtapositions of light and darkness\, movement and stasis\, sound and silence\, all work together to yield a tragic lonesomeness that even the warmth of a bright summer day cannot cure. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Chang Chen\, Lisa Yang\, Chang Kuo-Chu \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1991\, DCP\, color\, 237 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan\, Shanghainese and English with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-a-brighter-summer-day-guling-jie-shaonian-sharen-shijian-with-introduction-by-kalli-peng/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240331T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240331T220000
DTSTAMP:20260502T044058
CREATED:20240216T164131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T164132Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)
DESCRIPTION: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 knit friends and relatives forms an entangled web of relationships where lost and insecure young professionals (civil servants\, accountants\, businessmen\, publishers\, writers\, and artists) navigate different emotional scenes in a vibrant Taipei. Following a series of misunderstandings\, a pervasive sense of loneliness permeates these densely populated frames\, resulting in a deliberate messiness. Intentionally not a guide for the perplexed\, Yang’s dazzling world melts pretense\, fakeness\, authenticity and sincerity into a confounding pool of restlessness. \n\n\n\nOne of the two least heralded (or screened) films by Edward Yang (the other being Mahjong)\, A Confucian Confusion’sstylistic and narrative experimentation is in fact fiercer than ever\, reflecting his ongoing formal exploration in a diverse oeuvre. Made after directing plays such as Likely Consequence (1992) and Growth Period (1993)\, A Confucian Confusionconducts\, with a bold theatricality\, a brilliant investigation into the challenging sedimentations of traditional ideals of social conformity and hierarchy in a modern age of independence. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Chen Li-Mei\, Chen Shiang-chyi\, Chen Yi-Wen \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1994\, DCP\, color\, 125 min. Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-a-confucian-confusion-du-li-shi-dai/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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