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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring John Kieschnick - MSG\, Vegan Soap\, Karma and Tofu: Chinese Vegetarianism in the Early 20th Century
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: John Kieschnick\, Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies\, Stanford University \n\n\n\nDrawing 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 the twentieth century. \n\n\n\nJohn Kieschnick specializes in Chinese Buddhism\, with particular emphasis on its cultural history. He is the author of the Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval China\, The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture\, and Buddhist Historiography in China. He is currently writing a history of Chinese vegetarianism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-john-kieschnick-msg-vegan-soap-karma-and-tofu-chinese-vegetarianism-in-the-early-20th-century/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T100000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Margaret Hillenbrand - On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Margaret Hillenbrand\, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Fellow of Wadham College\, Oxford University \n\n\n\nOn 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 as a rationale\, the city condemned the entire settlement and its inhabitants. Nearly 250\,000 were forced to evacuate. In this talk\, I suggest that such evictions provoke questions about the limits of inequality\, exclusion\, and insecure work as meaningful descriptors of social conditions in our times. In this talk\, I explore the logic of expulsion in contemporary China\, its capacity to foment both solidarity and social strife\, and its relationship with cultural forms. In particular\, I look at how people living under precarity in China today use culture as a space to vent feelings of rage\, resentment\, distrust\, and disdain that are taboo under the diktats of so-called harmonious society. \n\n\n\nMargaret Hillenbrand is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on literary and visual studies in twentieth-century China\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, and Japan\, especially cultures of secrecy and protest. Her books include Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, and On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (Columbia University Press\, 2023)\, from which this talk is drawn. She is now working on a new project about the cultural politics of the face in Chinese visual culture during the era of biometric surveillance. \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-margaret-hillenbrand/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Taiwan and the World: Presentations by the Fairbank Center’s 2023-24 Fellows in Taiwan Studies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: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\, University of California\, Berkeley – Building the Department of African Affairs: Institutional and Strategic  Developments in Taiwan’s Foreign Policy During the Early Cold War  Julia Famularo\, Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies\, Fairbank Center; PhD in Modern Asian Political History\, Georgetown University – Taiwan’s Substitute Military Service Program: Reform and Expansion Under the Tsai and Incoming Lai Administrations \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. Register at: [REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS AT CAPACITY] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-rethinking-taiwan-in-the-world/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Angela Huyue Zhang - Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Angela Huyue Zhang\, Associate Professor of Law\, University of Hong Kong; Director\, Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law \n\n\n\nChina’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 structural issues\, recent policy shifts\, or escalating geopolitical tensions? \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Professor Angela Zhang will offer a fresh perspective\, steering the conversation towards the impact of law on the Chinese economy. Drawing insights from her latest book\, “High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy\,” Professor Zhang will introduce the “Dynamic Pyramid Model” to demystify China’s regulatory governance.  Through this lens\, she will explain the consistent regulatory pattern in some of the biggest policy challenges China has faced in recent years\, including tech regulation\, the covid-19 pandemic control\, the energy crisis in 2021\, the ongoing property crack down and China’s demographic crisis.  This discussion aims to shed light on the political logic underpinning China’s regulatory policies\, while also identifying potential pathways toward economic revival. \n\n\n\nAngela Zhang is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and Director of the Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law. Widely recognized as a leading authority on China’s tech regulation\, Angela has written extensively on this topic. She is the author of “Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation” (Oxford\, 2021)\, which was named one of the Best Political Economy Books of 2021 by ProMarket. Angela’s second book\, “High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy\,” was released by Oxford University Press in March 2024. In fall 2024\, Angela will join the University of Southern California as a Professor of Law. For more information\, please visit her website at AngelaZhang.net\, and follow her on Twitter @AngelaZhangHK. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-angela-zhang/
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:20240403T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T164500
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
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SUMMARY:The Future of US-Taiwan Relations: A conversation with Alexander Tah-ray Yui\, Taiwan’s Representative to the US
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Alexander Tah-ray Yui\, Taiwan Representative to the United States \n\n\n\nHarvard-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 of International Affairs\, will moderate. This event is sponsored by the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nRegistration is required for this event and is open to Harvard-ID holders only. Please register using the link above. This event is in-person only and will be recorded. A recording will be posted later to this events page and sent to all registrants.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-future-of-us-taiwan-relations-a-conversation-with-alexander-tah-ray-yui-taiwans-representative-to-the-us/
LOCATION:Nye Conference Center\, Taubman Building 5th Floor\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Taiwan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture featuring Uluğ Kuzuoğlu - Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Uluğ Kuzuoğlu\, Assistant Professor of History\, Washington University in St. Louis \n\n\n\nIn 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. What had sustained a civilization for more than three millennia was suddenly recast as the root cause of an ongoing cultural suicide. In this talk\, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu draws on his book to rethink the historical origins of Chinese script reforms––efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s. Examining the material conditions and political economy underlying attempts to modernize scripts\, Kuzuoğlu demonstrates that these reforms were at the forefront of an emergent information age\, precipitated by new communications technologies and infrastructures as well as industrial\, educational\, and bureaucratic pressures for information management. Situating China within a global context\, this talk describes how scripts became instruments to increase labor efficiency and create alternate political futures in China and the world.”  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-featuring-ulug-kuzuoglu-codes-of-modernity-chinese-scripts-in-the-global-information-age/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T174500
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
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SUMMARY:U.S. - China Relations Today
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: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 \n\n\n\nJoin 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 on this topic. This event is part of the preview series to the 2024 China Conference organized by students at Harvard Kennedy School. \n\n\n\nProfessor DA Wei is the director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua\, and professor of department of International Relations\, school of Social Science\, Tsinghua University. He is renowned for his work on China-US relations and US security & foreign policy\, and has a rich background in China’s academic and policy community. \n\n\n\nProfessor Rana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at Harvard\, is an acclaimed author and commentator on China’s international relations and historical narratives. He is the author of several books\, and his writing on contemporary China has appeared in influential media outlets. He previously taught at Oxford\, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. \n\n\n\nRegister at: https://forms.gle/SZVqh5iwTpNBSkek7 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/u-s-china-relations-today/
LOCATION:L-332 DELAND\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T132000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T163621Z
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SUMMARY:Glen S. Fukushima - U.S. Trade Policy\, Japan\, and China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Glen S. Fukushima\, Vice Chair\, Securities Investor Protection Corporation; Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China \n\n\n\nGlen 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 from Harvard Law School in 1982\, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Faculty of Law\, University of Tokyo; associate at Paul\, Hastings\, Janofsky & Walker; Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan; and senior executive in one European and four American multinational corporations.  He served on Hillary Clinton’s Asia Policy Working Group in 2015-2016. \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/glen-s-fukushima-u-s-trade-policy-japan-and-china/
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:20240405T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T130000
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SUMMARY:Wu Helin - From Serampore to Singapore: The Making of the Missionary Enterprise to China (1800-1840)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wu Helin\, Associate Research Fellow\, India Study Center\, Central China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, Indian Studies In China Program\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Dana L. Robert\, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor\, Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission\, Boston University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wu-helin-from-serampore-to-singapore-the-making-of-the-missionary-enterprise-to-china-1800-1840/
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:20240405T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
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SUMMARY:Generative AI for Chinese Studies - Advanced Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDigital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The workshop on 5 April will cover how to use open-source large language models on local devices\, query through APIs\, and basic concepts of retrieval augment generation. \n\n\n\nThe workshops will be limited to 45 attendees each to ensure enough space and a quality learning environment. The following order of preference will apply: graduate students and faculty\, undergraduate students\, and Harvard affiliates. \n\n\n\nIn the advanced workshop\, we will try out open-source large language models such as Qwen and Taiwan LLM. We will show how to access them through APIs. The workshop also covers an overview of retrieval augment generation that can offer more precise and domain-specific information. For these tasks\, attendees may need a laptop with 16GB of ram and at least 10 GB of SSD storage. They also have to install some software before attending the workshop. More information will be provided after enrollment confirmation.Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/N9eRjE0RUL \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/generative-ai-for-chinese-studies-advanced-workshop/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T180000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Mahjong (Ma jiang)
DESCRIPTION: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 possess. The funniest and angriest of Yang’s films\, Mahjong questions the sustainability of the dominance of a calculating profit-mindedness and transactional mentality\, incubated in a capitalist madness blown to the point of barbarity. Red Fish\, the son of a missing millionaire\, leads a group of four young men as they swim in the ocean of ambivalent values among European expats\, entrepreneurs\, liars and criminals. A series of surprising events expose a social world where tenderness only makes one vulnerable to be exploited or deceived\, and people—avoiding responsibilities—lack courage to think or make decisions for themselves. Following A Confucian Confusion\, this dark comedy continues to experiment with theatrical forms. Yang’s use of lighting in a scene of an astonishing and dramatically powerful murder recalls Béla Tarr’s intense chamber drama Autumn Almanac (1984). The repeated appearance of T.G.I. Friday’s and the Hard Rock Café\, along with other globalist trinkets\, casts an alluring\, mysterious and uncanny shadow over Taipei’s colorful nightlife. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Tang Tsung Sheng\, Chang Chen\, Lawrence Ko \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1996\, DCP\, color\, 121 min. Mandarin\, Min Nan 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-mahjong-ma-jiang/
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:20240408T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240408T210000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Terrorizers (Kong bu fen zi)
DESCRIPTION: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 point of no return; and a delinquent duo whose income comes from committing petty pickpocketing and blackmailing. Prank phone calls\, amateur photography\, writer’s block and coveted promotions serendipitously bring these separate lives together. As close relationships come to a dissolution\, the distinctions between life and art\, fiction and reality also edge toward implosion. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Cora Miao\, Lee Li-Chun\, King Shih-Chieh \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1986\, DCP\, color\, 110 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-the-terrorizers-kong-bu-fen-zi/
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:20240409T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T100000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Cole Roskam - Planning Exchange: Ideas\, People\, and Cities in Circulation During China's Opening and Reform Era
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Cole Roskam\, Professor of Architectural History\, Department of Architecture\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nBeginning 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 with regard to distinctly technical forms of knowledge; more generally\, they also helped increase China’s connections to the capitalist world and vice-versa. At the same time\, the exchange also offered a somewhat unpredictable vehicle for change—a fundamentally subjective experience capable of producing profound incommensurability and asymmetry across disciplines and individuals. \n\n\n\nThis presentation examines the dynamics at work in exchange within the broad field of urban planning and design\, which was a particularly popular arena for international engagement in reform-era China. In this presentation\, I explore the complex\, interpersonal dynamics of exchange in relation to planning expertise\, and the extent to which the inherent subjectivities at work in the experience of exchange proved consequential to urban planning practices in reform-era China and\, more generally\, the fundamental strangeness of reform itself.Cole Roskam is professor of architectural history in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. His research explores architecture’s role in mediating moments of transnational interaction and exchange between China and other parts of the world. He is the author of Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai\, 1843-1937 (University of Washington Press\, 2019) and Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China\, 1970-1992 (Yale University Press\, 2021). His writing has appeared in AD\, Architectural History\, Artforum International\, Grey Room\, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians\, among others. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (Washington\, DC)\, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal)\, and the University of Edinburgh. \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-cole-roskam/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Dreams from China’s Past: Visions of the Future in Popular Science and Literature Magazines\, 1927–1949
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Aaron William Moore\, Professor of Asian Studies and Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations\, University of Edinburgh \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/dreams-from-chinas-past-visions-of-the-future-in-popular-science-and-literature-magazines-1927-1949/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
CREATED:20240403T163040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T135913Z
UID:36030-1712687400-1712692800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2024 China Town Hall Featuring Kurt Campbell and Rana Mitter
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: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\, and nation\, connects Americans around the country with U.S. policymakers and thought leaders on China.   \n\n\n\nThe 2024 CHINA Town Hall program will take place on Tuesday\, April 9\, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET\, with featured speaker Dr. Kurt Campbell\, Deputy Secretary of State.  Following the official program\, students have the opportunity to discuss with Prof. Rana Mitter in-person reflecting on the event from 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.  \n\n\n\nRSVP:  https://forms.gle/cjDyW6LbUmfi58fV9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2024-china-town-hall-featuring-kurt-campbell-and-rana-mitter/
LOCATION:L-332 DELAND\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T130000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
CREATED:20240129T192731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T192733Z
UID:35337-1712748600-1712754000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs — Does the Sino-Tibetan Language Family Exist?: A Fresh Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Tibetan\, Chinese\, and Surrounding Languages
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs\, Professor\, Linguistics\, Nankai University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24 \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Kevin Ryan\, Professor\, Linguistics\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yeshes-vodgsal-atshogs-does-the-sino-tibetan-language-family-exist-a-fresh-exploration-of-the-historical-relationship-between-tibetan-chinese-and-surrounding-languages/
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:20240410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T131500
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
CREATED:20240123T184127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T133327Z
UID:35181-1712750400-1712754900@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Keith Bradsher - An Industrial Surge Amidst China’s Slowdown
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Keith Bradsher\, Beijing Bureau Chief\, The New York Times \n\n\n\nChina’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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-keith-bradsher/
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:20240410T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
CREATED:20240124T135936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240228T173350Z
UID:35212-1712764800-1712770200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker - Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker\, Associate Research Scholar\, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University-New Brunswick \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Stevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington; author of An Ecological History of Modern China \n\n\n\nEcological States critically examines ecological policies in the People’s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China’s ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance\, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. \n\n\n\nAlthough Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing\, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy. Instead\, they creatively navigate resettlement processes in pursuit of their own benefit. However\, their resistance is limited by varied forms of state-backed infrastructural violence. \n\n\n\nThrough extensive fieldwork with scientists\, urban planners\, and everyday citizens in southwestern China\, Ecological States exposes the ways in which the scientific logics and practices fundamental to China’s green urbanization have solidified state power and contributed to dispossession and social inequality. \n\n\n\nJesse Rodenbiker is an associate research scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies\, and an assistant teaching professor of geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance\, urbanization\, and social inequality in China and globally. Rodenbiker is the author of the book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023\, Cornell University Press). His work has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\,  Fulbright\, Social Science Research Council\, and the Wilson Center\, among others. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlc-CsqjwiEtNUqQ1sEFhmYYHp9hHGJwTX \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T131500
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SUMMARY:Arbitrary Detention in Xinjiang: A Survivor's Story
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Rayhan Asat\, Uyghur Lawyer\, HLS LLM ‘16Mihrigul Tursun\, Uyghur Activist\, Former Detainee and Camp Survivor \n\n\n\nIn 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 Tursun and Rayhan to learn more about what is happening in Xinjiang and what can be done. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/arbitrary-detention-in-xinjiang-a-survivors-story/
LOCATION:WCC 1015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T180000
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SUMMARY:The Asian Security Order: Views from the Region
DESCRIPTION: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 \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-asian-security-order-views-from-the-region/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T183000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
CREATED:20240328T161756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T161757Z
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SUMMARY:China: The Rise and Fall of the EAST - How Exams\, Autocracy\, Stability\, and Technology Brought China Success\, and Why They Might Lead to its Decline
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Will Knight\, Senior Writer\, Wired Magazine \n\n\n\nMore information: https://bit.ly/RiseFallChina \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-east-how-exams-autocracy-stability-and-technology-brought-china-success-and-why-they-might-lead-to-its-decline/
LOCATION:Building 66\, 110\, 25 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
CREATED:20240329T133311Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking through Performance in China - A Workshop on Chinese theories of Acting\, Singing\, and Theater (c.1200–1850)
DESCRIPTION: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 and performance studies across the world today? The central question these texts address —namely\, “what is the function of Chinese theater?”—has ramifications for students of Chinese history\, literature\, and thought more broadly. \n\n\n\nTheatrical artforms flourished in China from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries. While current scholarship largely focuses on playwriting and surviving play-texts from the Yuan to Qing dynasties\, this period also bore witness to a boom in writings about performance\, from manuals on aria composition to poems on the operatic voice to epitaphs for actors. Rather than treat these materials (often referred to in Chinese as quhua 曲話\, qulun 曲論\,or julun 劇論) as supplementary evidence for a general history of playwriting\, this workshop approaches the act of writing about performance as a vibrant field of artistic expression. Texts about theatrical performance not only shed new light on the social history of acting during this period\, but they also speak to broader issues such as constructions of gender and sexuality\, the politics of patronage\, the place of allusion\, and conceptions of artifice and naturalness in Chinese aesthetic thought. In as much as these texts struggle to document the evanescence of live performance\, they also reflect on the purpose and limitations of writing itself. \n\n\n\nIn general\, the workshop will ask what it means to speak of “performance theory” in the premodern Chinese context. At the same time\, the workshop seeks to uncover valuable perspectives from premodern China for teachers\, students\, and practitioners of the performing arts today. \n\n\n\nAgendaFriday\, April 129:30 AM: Introductory Remarks \n\n\n\n10:00 AM: Panel 1 – Thinking through PerformanceChair: David Wang\, Harvard UniversityThomas Kelly\, Harvard University\, “Writing Evanescence: Pan Zhiheng’s Essays on Acting”Ling Hon Lam\, UC Berkeley\, “In Search of Bad Singing: A Disarticulation of the Automaton\, or a Mathematical Critique of ‘Self-So’ Cosmology” \n\n\n\n12:00 PM: Lunch \n\n\n\n1:00 PM: Panel 2 – Performance as Method in Song and Oral StorytellingChair: Si Nae Park\, Harvard UniversityPatricia Sieber\, The Ohio State University\, “Surprise as Method: Performance Aesthetics in Yuan Sanqu Songs”Canaan Morse\, Boston University\, “The Image of the Book and the Performance of Reading in The Drunken Man’s Talk and the Early Huaben” \n\n\n\n3:30 PM: Panel 3 – Performing SpectatorshipChair: Wai-yee Li\, Harvard UniversityYinghui Wu\, UCLA\, “The Passion for Performance and Performers in the Late Ming: Between Therapy\, Obsession\, and Bad Karma”Ming Tak Ted Hui\, Oxford University\, “Vocal Imaginaries: Connoisseurship of the Operatic Voice in the 16th Century” \n\n\n\nSaturday\, April 13 \n\n\n\n9:30 AM: Panel 4 – Translation WorkshopJudith Zeitlin (University of Chicago)\, Yiren Zheng (Dartmouth University)\, and Tom Kelly will lead a group discussion of essays by Pan Zhiheng 潘之恆 (1556–1622) on acting\, singing\, and theater.Zheng: 蘇舌師；馬手樂 (9:30–10:20)Zeitlin: 獨音；敘曲；李紉之 (10:30–11:20)Kelly: 仙度；原近 (11:30–12:20) \n\n\n\n12:30 PM: Lunch \n\n\n\n2:00 PM: Panel 5 – Theater and Theatricality   Chair: Catherine Yeh\, Boston UniversityGuojun Wang\, McGill University\, “Bibliography as Critique: Cataloging and Categorizing Drama in Premodern China”Kangni Huang\, Harvard University\, “Rethinking Meta-Theater: From Wu Bing to Jiang Shiquan”4:30 PM: Roundtable – New DirectionsFor more information\, contact Thomas Kelly at thomas_kelly@fas.harvard.edu.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/thinking-through-performance-in-china-a-workshop-on-chinese-theories-of-acting-singing-and-theater-c-1200-1850/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240412T130000
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SUMMARY:Curatorial Chat: Central Asian Chronicles Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery
DESCRIPTION: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 histories and cultural significance of the collections on display and ample time for participant questions. \n\n\n\nAttendees should gather in Houghton’s lobby. No registration is required.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/curatorial-chat-central-asian-chronicles-echoes-of-the-silk-road-in-manuscripts-and-imagery/
LOCATION:Houghton Library\, Quincy Street & Harvard Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T150000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
CREATED:20240325T171354Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium - Thinking Between/Through Historic and Modern China
DESCRIPTION: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 China Studies\, Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of History\, University of Washington \n\n\n\nThis symposium will examine the persistent problem of identity and form in the conceptualization of the modern Chinese nation. Among the questions to be addressed by panelists are\, How should we understand “China” as a fluid concept caught between an imperial past and a national present? How to strike a balance between seeing Chinese history through lenses formed out of the European experience and singling China out as an exception to world historical patterns? How can the dialogue between History and Modernity bring new illumination to our understanding of China today? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-thinking-between-through-historic-and-modern-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T133000
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SUMMARY:Joseph Esherick - Rethinking the Chinese Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joseph Esherick\, Professor Emeritus of History\, University of California\, San Diego \n\n\n\nModerator: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute. \n\n\n\nWas 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 Theses on the Chinese Revolution.” Fundamental to this evolution has been wrestling with the determinism he learned as a social historian of the 1960s to a greater (but still uneasy) embrace of the contingency of history that one sees in Accidental Holy Land. \n\n\n\nJoseph W. Esherick received his B.A. from Harvard in 1964 and his PhD from Berkeley in 1971.  His scholarship has focused on the last years of the Qing dynasty and the social and political transformation of modern China.  His dissertation and first monograph\, Reform and Revolution in China: the 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei explored the social background of China’s republican revolution.  His book on The Origins of the Boxer Uprising won the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and the Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.  Ancestral Leaves explored the tumultuous history of nineteenth and twentieth-century China through the lives of successive generations of one family. His new monograph\, Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China\, is a study of the founding of the Shaan-Gan-Ning border region of northwest China.  In edited volumes\, Esherick has analyzed Chinese local elites\, the transformation of Chinese cities\, American policy toward China during World War II\, the Cultural Revolution\, and the transition from empire to nation in comparative perspective\, and the year 1943 in China. After forty years of teaching at the University of Oregon and the University of California at San Diego\, Esherick retired in 2012 and now lives in Berkeley\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/joseph-esherick-rethinking-the-chinese-revolution/
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:20240415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240415T220000
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CREATED:20240216T165551Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: That Day\, on the Beach (Hai tan de yi tian)
DESCRIPTION: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 which Ching learns about how the romantic and domestic life of Jia-li and her elder brother evolved over the past decade. Through complex flashbacks\, the microcosmic personal life is revealed to be closely interwoven with the drastic economic and social changes that Taiwan witnessed over the entire 70s. Full of subtle narrative and cinematic surprises\, the film explores the difficulties that accompany freedom\, love and trust; in staging the fragility of any sense of facile contentment and hope\, it makes visible the pleasure and pain entailed in one’s pursuits of happiness. The film also marks the debut of Christopher Doyle as a cinematographer\, best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai. Released in Taiwan four decades ago\, Edward Yang’s first feature’s length\, storytelling\, and formal ingenuity all speak to his unwavering will to uphold his artistic vision despite all obstacles. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang. With Sylvia Chang\, Hsu Ming\, Lee Lieh \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1983\, DCP\, color\, 166 min. Mandarin and German with English subtitles \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-that-day-on-the-beach-hai-tan-de-yi-tian/
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:20240416T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T100000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215128
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T122143Z
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Fangsheng - Families\, Schools\, and Cities
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Zhu Fangsheng\, Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Duke Kunshan University \n\n\n\nThis 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 manage rising perceived injustices in informal processes by which parents were choosing schools\, and that such repurposing of school districts only succeeded with the arrival of big data infrastructure in the early 2010s. The successful repurposing of school districts reconfigured urban education governance. \n\n\n\nComparing across time periods\, I find that formal procedures reduced perceived injustices while also increasing collective action. Comparing across families\, I find that the formal procedures catalyzed different education migration strategies and destinations\, dependent on family resources. Comparing across urban districts within the same city\, I report unequal burdens of school provision between urban center and urban fringe districts. Altogether\, these findings demonstrate that formal procedures addressed perceived injustices but not substantive inequalities in urban education governance.  \n\n\n\nFangsheng Zhu studies policies\, organizations\, and technologies in education. His ongoing projects evolve around two research questions. First\, why has education in China remained unequal and intensive? Second\, what explains the rise and fall of China’s EdTech industry? Fangsheng is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke Kunshan University. \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-zhu-fangsheng/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Timothy Brook - The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Timothy Brook\, The University of British Columbia\, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino\, Trinity CollegeYan Gao\, University of MemphisIan M. Miller\, St John’s University \n\n\n\nSeries Convener:Ling Zhang\, Boston College \n\n\n\nIn 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 truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China\, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule. \n\n\n\nThe mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age\, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s\, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster\, the Ming price regime collapsed\, and with it the Ming political regime. \n\n\n\nA masterful work of scholarship\, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it. \n\n\n\nTimothy Brook is professor emeritus of history at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Great State\, Mr. Selden’s Map of China\, and Vermeer’s Hat. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qjb4CtrvRQSr5k5Tj6owiA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-timothy-brook/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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SUMMARY:Borders in Motion: New Paradigms of East Asian Comparative Literature - an online book launch forum
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Satoru Hashimoto\, Johns Hopkins UniversityXiaolu Ma\, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyMiya Qiong Xie\, Dartmouth College \n\n\n\nHosts:Karen Thornber\, Harvard UniversityDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/borders-in-motion-new-paradigms-of-east-asian-comparative-literature-an-online-book-launch-forum/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Contextual Annotation in Textual and Visual Media: COMARKUS and IMMARKUS
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hilde De Weerdt\,  Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History\, KU Leuven  \n\n\n\nHilde 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 within a comparative or global historical framework. \n\n\n\nShe studied Chinese and Chinese History at KU Leuven (BA) and Harvard University (PH.D.) and taught history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2002-2007\, Assistant Professor)\, Oxford University (2007-2012\, Associate Professor)\, and King’s College London (2012-2013\, Reader) before becoming Chair Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University in 2013. She has published five volumes on Chinese political culture and intellectual history\, focusing on the workings of late imperial Chinese bureaucratic infrastructures and political communication (Political Communication in Chinese and European History\, 800-1600\, ed.\, 2021; The Essentials of Governance\, tr. and ed.\, 2021; Information\, Territory\, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China\, 2015; Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127-1276)\, 2007; Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print–China\, 900-1400\, ed.\, 2011). \n\n\n\nShe is currently working on a longue-durée global history of Chinese political advice literature. In 2021 she received funding from the European Research Council and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to extend her earlier work on Chinese state infrastructures into a large-scale collaborative project on the social and regional histories of material infrastructures (roads\, bridges\, city walls) (1000-1800). \n\n\n\nShe maintains an active interest in designing and developing digital research methods for East Asian and other languages. With Brent Ho she co-designed the text annotation and reading platform MARKUS\, and with Mees Gelein two text comparison modules COMPARATIVUS and PARALLELLS. (On the history of and concept behind these and related digital research projects\, see “Creating\, Linking\, and Analyzing Chinese and Korean Datasets: Digital Text Annotation in MARKUS and COMPARATIVUS”). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/contextual-annotation-in-textual-and-visual-media-comarkus-and-immarkus/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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