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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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.
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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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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
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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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Mahjong is a game for four players, and the one who first collects winning sets of tiles wins. But the real game lies not in these rectangular pieces per se, but in deliberating what one already has and could afford to discard or how to acquire from others what one desires but does not yet |
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Characterized as “Yang’s most difficult, intellectually provocative, and structurally challenging film” (John Anderson), Edward Yang’s third feature-length film is a puzzle with immense reverberatory power. The Terrorizers depicts the intertwining of love and death among three different couples: a young photographer and his literary girlfriend; a middle-class and middle-aged married couple whose mutual estrangement grows to the |
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Speaker: Cole Roskam, Professor of Architectural History, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong Beginning in the 1970s and intensifying during the 1980s, the People’s Republic of China initiated international scholarly exchange programs with numerous countries at a range of levels and scales within Chinese society. These interactions were intended to facilitate knowledge transfer, particularly
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Speaker: Aaron William Moore, Professor of Asian Studies and Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations, University of Edinburgh More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
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Speakers:Kurt Campbell, Deputy U.S. Secretary of StateRana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the Greater China Society at HKS on April 9th for the 2024 CHINA Town Hall (CTH), a two-part program that provides a snapshot of the current U.S.-China relationship and examines how that relationship reverberates at the local level – in our towns, states, |
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Speaker: Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs, Professor, Linguistics, Nankai University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Discussant: Kevin Ryan, Professor, Linguistics, Harvard University Venue
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Speaker: Keith Bradsher, Beijing Bureau Chief, The New York Times China’s economy is slowing, dragged down by real estate troubles, but its industrial sector has never been stronger. That poses dilemmas for trade partners in sectors from steel to solar panels to electric cars. Venue
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Speaker: Jesse Rodenbiker, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Discussant: Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington; author of An Ecological History of Modern China Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically |
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Speakers:Rayhan Asat, Uyghur Lawyer, HLS LLM ‘16Mihrigul Tursun, Uyghur Activist, Former Detainee and Camp Survivor In 2015, Mihrigul Tursun was imprisoned in a re-education camp in Xinjiang by the Chinese authorities. Rayhan Asat’s brother, Ekpar, has been detained for right years and counting. Join Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights for a discussion with
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Speakers:Selina Ho, Assistant Professor in International Affairs; Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of SingaporeLi Chen, Renmin University of ChinaChair: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center Venue
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Speaker: Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Faculty Director, MIT-China Program, Center for International Studies. Discussant: Will Knight, Senior Writer, Wired Magazine More information: https://bit.ly/RiseFallChina Venue |
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This workshop reconsiders the significance of critical writings about acting, singing, and theatrical performance in China (c.1200–1850). How did artists, intellectuals, and critics reflect on experiences of watching or listening to live performance? How did the act of writing about spectatorship become an artform in and of itself? What might these texts offer for theater
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Join co-curators Dr. Gülnar Eziz, Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, and Isa Youshe, PhD Student, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University, for a 30-minute guided tour of the Central Asian Chronicles: Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery exhibition currently on display in Houghton's Amy Lowell Room. This will include discussion of the rich |
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Panelists: Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard UniversityJoseph W. Esherick, Professor Emeritus, History Department, University of California San DiegoJames A. Millward, Professor of Inter-societal History, Georgetown University School of Foreign ServiceModerator: Madeleine Yue Dong, Vincent Y. C. Shih Professor of Chinese History and |
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Speaker: Joseph Esherick, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, San Diego Moderator: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute. Was the Chinese Revolution inevitable? In "Rethinking the Chinese Revolution," Esherick will discuss his evolving assessment of modern Chinese history from his early essay, "Harvard on China," through his "Ten
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A renowned young pianist, Tan Ching-Ching (Terry Hu) comes back to Taipei for the first time in thirteen years to give a performance. An old friend, Lin Jia-li (Sylvia Chang), gets in touch with her to reconvene over an afternoon coffee. That Day, on the Beach takes place over a conversation between the two female friends, during |
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Speaker: Zhu Fangsheng, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke Kunshan University This talk will trace the origins and consequences of how contemporary Chinese cities govern public school admissions. School districts became the central device in public school admissions in China, despite their absence of fiscal or administrative foundations. I argue that cities repurposed school districts to
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Speakers:Timothy Brook, The University of British Columbia, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino, Trinity CollegeYan Gao, University of MemphisIan M. Miller, St John’s University Series Convener:Ling Zhang, Boston College In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the
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Speakers:Satoru Hashimoto, Johns Hopkins UniversityXiaolu Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyMiya Qiong Xie, Dartmouth College Hosts:Karen Thornber, Harvard UniversityDavid Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Venue |
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Speaker: Hilde De Weerdt, Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History, KU Leuven Hilde De Weerdt joined the Early Modern History Research Group, KU Leuven in March 2022 as Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History. Professor De Weerdt is broadly interested in intellectual, social, and political history, both within an East Asian context, and |
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Speaker: Stephen MacKinnon, Emeritus Professor of History; Former Director of Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State UniversitySteven MacKinnon, author of Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary, will discuss the remarkable life of one of most important economic researchers on the Chinese rural economy over a career that spanned the 1930s to his death at 107 |
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9:10 AM: Introductory remarks 9:15 AM: Literature Panel Tina Lu, Yale University - "The Family Romance, Chuanqi, and What Can't Be Said" Maria Sibau, Emory University - "Inventing Mothers in Late Imperial Literature" Discussants:Thomas Kelly, Harvard UniversityWai-yee Li, Harvard University 11:00 AM: Break 11:15 AM: Presentations on the Chinese Family Romance by students of Eileen
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How do humans and objects exist in relation to time and experience time? We often turn to space and spatial models as the dominant approach to analyzing visual materials, yet time could also serve as a way of organizing visual and perceptual experiences. In the case of Chinese art, time and temporality had particular salience
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Introduction: Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard Divinity SchoolProgrammer: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Update: Post-screening discussion with Lobsang Sangay, former Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration, Senior Visiting Fellow, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School. Big Waves, Great Earthquakes explores the largely unseen |
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Speaker: Franciscus Verellen, Professor Emeritus, École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO); Vice President, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France The understudied end phase of the Tang dynasty (618–907) is mainly known through official accounts dating to the tenth and eleventh centuries. This lecture examines the process that led to the empire’s breakup from the vantage
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Introduction: Carma Hinton, Art historian and Documentary Filmmaker; Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University (retired) "In The Gate of Heavenly Peace (the literal translation of the name Tiananmen), the causes, effects and fallout from the six-week protest that led up to the Chinese government's crackdown on dissidents are detailed with intelligence,
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The omnibus film In Our Time initiated radical innovations in terms of aesthetic styles, industry practices and commonly depicted themes, thereby revolutionizing the filmmaking industry in Taiwan and inaugurating the movement of Taiwan New Cinema. The four segments are shot by four young emerging directors and each film—set in different decades from the 1950s to the 1980s—represents |
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Speaker: Christine Luk, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Tsinghua University More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
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Speaker: Michael Stanley-Baker, Nanyang Technological University Join us for an illuminating workshop hosted by the Digital China Initiative (DCI) and the China Biographical Database Project (CBDB), showcasing the innovative DocuSky platform. Developed by the Research Center for Digital Humanities at National Taiwan University, this online platform is ingeniously designed to cater to the intricate demands
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Speakers:Dorinda Elliott, Newsweek, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Seth Faison, South China Morning Press, Brunswick Group China Hub Orville Schell, New York Review of Books, Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations Katherine Wilhelm, Associated Press, NYU U.S. Asia Law Center Moderator: Annie Jieping Zhang, founder, Matters Lab, co-founder, Initium Media, Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellow 2024 What happened in the spring of 1989 in
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Speaker: Gyal Lo, Educational sociologist and expert on China’s assimilation and education policies in TibetModerator: James Robson, James C. Kralik, and Yunli Lou Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center, Harvard University More information: https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/impact-chinas-colonial-boarding-schools-tibet-children-and-communities Venue |
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Speakers:Sugata Bose, Harvard UniversityWilliam Kirby, Harvard University Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts, AmherstZeynep Kadirbeyoglu, Brandeis UniversitySidney Chalhoub, Harvard UniversityJoan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, PrincetonDurba Mitra, Harvard UniversityBeshara Doumani, Brown UniversityBrian Connolly, University of South Florida In 2019, alarmed by attacks on academic freedom happening simultaneously in several parts of the world (Brazil, India, Turkey, |
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Speakers:David Der-wei Wang 王德威 (Harvard University)Peter K. Bol 包弼德 (Harvard University)Wai-yee Li 李惠儀 (Harvard University)Thomas P. Kelly (Harvard University)Joo-hyeon Oh 吳周炫 (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)Yang Rur-bin 楊儒賓 (National Tsing Hua University)Cheng Yu-yu 鄭毓瑜 (National Taiwan University, Academia Sinica)Chan Kwok -Kou 陳國球 (National Tsing Hua University)Lai Shi-San 賴錫三 (National Sun Yat-sen University)Mark McConaghy 莫加南 (National |
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Speaker: Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State UniversityDiscussant: Brian Lander, Brown University This study illustrates how Buddhism shaped Chinese knowledge and experience of animals after it gradually took root in Chinese society in the medieval periods, and vice versa, how Chinese state ideology, Daoism, and local cultic practices reshaped Buddhism in understanding and engaging with animals. Taking |
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Speaker: Isabella Jackson, Assistant Professor in Chinese History, Trinity College Dublin The Shanghai International Settlement was the site of key developments of the Republican period: economic growth, rising Chinese nationalism, and the Sino-Japanese conflict. Managed by the Shanghai Municipal Council (SMC, 1854–1943), it was beyond the control of both the Chinese and the foreign imperial |
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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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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 |