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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …)
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/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian)
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/
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:20240505T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T170000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: In Our Time (Guang yin de gu shi)
DESCRIPTION: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 roughly one of the four younger stages of life: childhood\, adolescence\, young adulthood (in college) and married life (as working professionals). \n\n\n\nTitled Expectations\, sometimes translated as Desires\, Edward Yang’s segment features a series of sensitive and expressive vignettes that depict the growing pains of adolescents in mid-60s Taiwan. Yang sees the placement of the second short film as structurally akin to the second movement in a symphony\, typically characterized by its lyrical and slow nature. The teenaged Hsiao-Fen (Shi An-Ni) serves as a kind of prototype for other young heroines in Yang’s cinematic corpus. The diversity of the cinematic techniques used in his debut short film accentuates the complexity of the protagonist’s emotional and perceptual experience. \n\n\n\nDirected by Edward Yang\, Chang Yi\, Ko I-Chen and Tao Te-Chen. With Sylvia Chang\, Emily Y. Chang\, Lee Li-Chun \n\n\n\nTaiwan 1982\, 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-in-our-time-guang-yin-de-gu-shi/
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:20240507T083000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Guanchi - Rightscaling Cities: The Political Economy of City Territory in China
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Zhang Guanchi\, Vermont Law and Graduate School \n\n\n\nHow has the rescaling of the city territories interacted with China’s political and economic transformation? During the country’s rapid industrialization and urbanization\, Chinese cities have exhibited a relatively low degree of territorial fragmentation. This study examines the institutional experiments that have reclassified\, redivided\, and recombined local government territory in the People’s Republic of China since 1949. I argue that the constant rescaling of cities is a distinctive and underestimated mechanism in the Chinese state’s steering of economic transformation. \n\n\n\nThrough extensive fieldwork and archival research\, I find that the question of city scale has been integral to China’s economic modernization for the last seven decades. The constant tensions between the metropolitan center and periphery have driven various territorial reforms\, both before and after the market-oriented reform. These reforms have profoundly shaped the state’s economic development projects. I argue that\, over time\, metropolitan governments emerge as the primary scale for inter-local competition and coordination. While this particular territorial choice has contributed to China’s economic rise\, its entrenchment has ramifications for the country’s current challenges. \n\n\n\nGuanchi Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Law at Vermont Law and Graduate School. His research interests lie at the intersection of law\, urban studies\, and political economy. His current research projects focus on two primary areas of inquiry: the rise and fall of efforts to rightscale cities in China and the United States\, and the role of housing and zoning laws in the context of growing geographic disparities. \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-guanchi/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T131500
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SUMMARY:Alienation of Enlightenment: Rethinking the May 4 Movement\, Featuring Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Qin Hui
DESCRIPTION:RSVP – HUID holders only\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQin Hui\, public intellectual and historian\, will give a talk on Tuesday\, May 7\, titled “启蒙的异化：五四再反思\,” “Alienation of Enlightenment: Rethinking the May 4 Movement.” Professor Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard University\, will be the discussant. \n\n\n\nThe talk and Q&A will be in Chinese. \n\n\n\nHarvard University ID required. Please register with Weijing Guo (wguo@fas.harvard.edu)\, as seating is limited. \n\n\n\nQin Hui (秦晖) is a historian and public intellectual. He retired as Professor of History\, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Tsinghua University\, in 2017 and then served as a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Qin’s primary field is economic history and peasant studies. Qin\, who has written extensively on issues relating to social justice in China’s countryside\, is currently focusing on China\, globalization\, and the “new Cold War.” \n\n\n\nQin’s recent research includes three broad topics: China\, globalization and the “new Cold War”; China’s social economy during the Cultural Revolution; and rethinking the lessons of the May Fourth Movement—what he calls “the failure of the second wave of global democratization.” \n\n\n\nQin graduated with a Masters Degree from Lanzhou University in 1981. Before coming to Harvard this year\, Qin was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo. Qin was a Visiting Fellow at the Fairbank Center in 2003. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alienation-of-enlightenment-rethinking-the-may-4-movement-featuring-fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-qin-hui/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T113000
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SUMMARY:Liu Weimo - Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmologies Compared
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Weimo\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Philosophy\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Shigehisa Kuriyama\, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nMore information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/ancient-greek-and-chinese-cosmologies-compared/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-weimo-mathematical-and-graphical-reasoning-in-early-china/
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:20240514T113000
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SUMMARY:Shih-Diing Liu - The Political Life of Affective Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shih-Diing Liu\, Professor\, Department of Communication\, University of MacauChair/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor Of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \n\n\n\nChina is saturated with complex emotions. Although emotions are constitutive in Chinese public culture\, their implications are poorly understood. In this presentation\, I aim to illuminate how and why emotions and affect open up new avenues for understanding the dynamics\, struggles and tensions in contemporary Chinese society and politics. This discussion revolves around the analytical foundation for our new book\, Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China (Edinburgh University Press\, co-authored with Wei Shi). I will contextualize the concept of affective space\, explaining why it provides a unique lens for exploring topics such as emotional mobilization\, psychoanalysis of nationalism and nativism\, workers’ embodied fear\, digital affective publics\, and the evolving state-society relations with distinct Chinese characteristics. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker: Shih-Diing Liu is Professor of Communication and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of Macau. His research has appeared in Positions: Asia Critique\, Third World Quarterly\, Social Movement Studies\, and New Left Review. He is the author of The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China (State University of New York Press\, 2019). \n\n\n\nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-political-life-of-affective-spaces/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shih-diing-liu-the-political-life-of-affective-spaces/
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:20240514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240514T173000
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SUMMARY:Visiting Scholar Lecture featuring Po-Chang (Paul) Huang - Sleepwalking into a China-Taiwan War? The Underreported Crisis over Kinmen and the Danger it Entails
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Po-Chang (Paul) Huang\, Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar; Research Fellow\, Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Steven Goldstein\, Director\, Taiwan Studies Workshop\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nOn February 14\, 2024\, a tiny Chinese fishing raft collided with a Taiwan Coast boat near the waters of Kinmen\, a Taiwan-controlled island just miles off China’s Fujian coast. Two Chinese fishermen drowned as a result\, and a huge Chinese public outrage against Taiwan ensued. In the months that followed Chinese Coast Guard started regular incursions into Taiwan’s declared “restricted waters” around Kinmen which effectively nullified the unspoken boundaries that have been maintained for decades across the two sides. \n\n\n\nPaul Huang\, a Taiwanese security researcher and a visiting fellow at the Fairbank Center\, will discuss this underreported crisis and why its risks at hand are far greater than most realized. While Western observers dismissed it as a small fishing incident\, Huang argues the events since February point clearly to Chinese government’s calculated escalation that have been unprecedented in recent history of cross-strait relations. Instead of backing down quietly as Taiwan government assumed\, Beijing seems determined to use this as a steppingstone for a much larger use-of-force operation against Taiwan\, which will be of grave consequences to both sides of the strait. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/visiting-scholar-lecture-featuring-po-chang-paul-huang-sleepwalking-into-a-china-taiwan-war-the-underreported-crisis-over-kinmen-and-the-danger-it-entails/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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