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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Oriana Skylar Mastro — The Future of Great Power Competition: Will China’s Strategy Succeed?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Oriana Skylar Mastro\, Center Fellow\, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Courtesy Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Stanford University; Non-resident Scholar\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace \n\n\n\nModerator: Andrew S. Erickson\, Professor of Strategy\, China Maritime Studies Institute\, U.S. Naval War College; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar \n\n\n\nOriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Courtesy Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy\, Asia-Pacific security issues\, war termination\, and coercive diplomacy. She is also a nonresident scholar\, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was previously an assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University. Mastro continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve for which she currently works at the Pentagon as Deputy Director of Reserve China Global Strategy. For her contributions to U.S. strategy in Asia\, she won the Individual Reservist of the Year Award in 2016 and 2022 (FGO). She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-oriana-skylar-mastro/
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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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 Series – Film Screening – Remembering the 1980s: The Documentary Series Tiananmen\, featuring an introduction by Yuhua Wang & Q+A with Rowena Xiaoqing He and Shi Jian
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard UniversityQ+A Discussion: Rowena Xiaoqing He\, Senior Research Fellow\, University of Texas Austin; author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaProgrammer: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nFollowed by a Zoom Q+A with filmmaker Shi Jian\, co-director of Tiananmen \n\n\n\nThe eight-part documentary series Tiananmen\, about life in Beijing in the 1980s\, was produced with official sanction by a brilliant young team of filmmakers at China Central Television (CCTV). It had a planned airing commencement date of National Day — October 1\, 1989 — to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. However\, production halted in the spring of 1989\, when students calling for democracy and an end to corruption took to the streets in Beijing. Following the violent crackdown on June 4th\, CCTV canceled the series\, concluding that any with the title “Tiananmen”—regardless of its political slant—would be too controversial to air. \n\n\n\nBut co-directors Shi Jian (时间) and Chen Jue (陈爵) decided to finished Tiananmen independently. The series was invited to screen at the Hong Kong Film Festival\, in 1992\, but the Chinese film delegation boycotted it\, and the screening was canceled. Since then\, the full documentary has only screened publicly once (in Chicago\, this past summer). \n\n\n\nThis historic series weaves a tapestry of sociopolitical life whose scope stretches from the survivors of the pre-revolution imperial court to the competitive struggles sparked by the transition to a planned economy\, to liberalization in the shadow of the not-too-distant Cultural Revolution\, to the vibrant artist communities and counterculture movements\, and ultimately\, to what registers as a sense of guarded optimism about China’s 21st century trajectory. \n\n\n\nYuhua Wang (王裕华) is Professor of Government at Harvard University\, whose research focuses on two aspects of the politics of state building. He looks at what contributes to the emergence of effective and durable statehood\, and after an effective state emerges\, how it can be constrained. Professor Wang’s third book\, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (2022\, Princeton University Press) won the 2023 Lubbert Best Book Award in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review\, Annual Review of Political Science\, British Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Political Studies\, Comparative Politics\, and China Quarterly. \n\n\n\nRowena Xiaoqing He (何曉清) is a China specialist and historian of modern China. She is interested in the nexus of history\, memory\, and power\, and their implications for the relationship between academic freedom and public opinion\, human rights and democratization\, and youth values and nationalism. Her first book\, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China\, was named Top Five Books 2014 by the Asia Society’s China File. The book has been reviewed in the New York Review of Books\, Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, New Statesman\, Spectator\, Christian Science Monitor\, China Journal\, Human Rights Quarterly\, and other international periodicals. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton\, and the National Humanities Center. Dr. He received the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence for three consecutive years for the Tiananmen courses that she created. She joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019 and received the Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award in 2020 and 2021. In 2023\, she was denied a Hong Kong work visa to return to her position as an Associate Professor of History. Her op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post\, The Nation\, The Guardian\, The Globe and Mail\, and The Wall Street Journal. She was designated among the Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals 2016. Born and raised in China\, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. \n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center’s film screening series explores the largely unseen early history of independent film in China\, beginning in the late 1980s\, aiming to unearth films long-suppressed by Chinese authorities to fill out the narrative of modern film history in the PRC. \n\n\n\nTiananmen’s 8 parts will screen in groups of two throughout Friday\, October 4\, with short breaks: \n\n\n\n12:00 PM: Introduction by Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, followed by Part 1: “The Old City” (56 min.)\, about survivors of the imperial court\, including interviews with the last living imperial eunuch and Puyi’s family members\, and Part 2: “Residences” (51 min.)\, which explores everyday life in courtyard homes. \n\n\n\n2:15 PM: Part 3: “On the Street” (52 min.)\, about various forms of commerce and social activities\, and Part 4: “On Stage” (54 min.)\, a survey of theater actors\, street performers\, and rock musicians. \n\n\n\n4:15 PM: Part 5: “Going Places” (48 min.)\, about intellectual life at universities and inside private enterprises\, and Part 6: “Guest Performers” (48 min.)\, which follows foreigners who live and work in Beijing. \n\n\n\n6:00 PM: Part 7: “On the Way” (50 min.)\, about entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry\, including ad agencies and models\, and Part 8: “Memories” (1 hour)\, a look at China’s history of sociopolitical unrest. \n\n\n\nThe final episode will be followed by a Zoom Q+A with Rowena Xiaoqing He and Tiananmen co-director Shi Jian. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\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/big-waves-great-earthquakes-film-screening-no-3-remembering-the-1980s-the-documentary-series-tiananmen-featuring-an-introduction-by-yuhua-wang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Digital China Initiative Workshop — GenAI for Literary Sinitic Studies
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is designed to introduce the world of Generative AI (GenAI) and its applications in Literary Sinitic Studies. Tailored for beginners with no prior experience in AI\, this session will explore how GenAI can revolutionize various aspects of research\, learning\, and analysis in Literary Sinitic Studies. \n\n\n\nTarget Audience: \n\n\n\n\nStudents\, researchers\, and professionals in Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nIndividuals interested in leveraging AI for academic or professional work related to China\n\n\n\nNo prior background in AI or computer science is required\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nIntroduce the concept of GenAI and its potential in Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nExplore various practical applications of GenAI in the field\n\n\n\nDevelop basic prompt engineering skills for effective use of GenAI chatbots.\n\n\n\n\nRegister here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-china-initiative-workshop-genai-for-literary-sinitic-studies-3/
LOCATION:Room 202\, 61 Kirkland St.\, 61 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Scott Kennedy — The Slow Tech Dragon: The Material and Ideational Sources of a Slumping Economy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Scott Kennedy\, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics\, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Compared to a decade ago\, China’s S&T capabilities have grown substantially. Nevertheless\, the country’s growth prospects have diminished considerably. This presentation attempts to explain this paradox by analyzing how China’s political economy is shaping the material and ideational foundations of growth. \n\n\n\nScott Kennedy is senior adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). A leading authority on Chinese economic policy and U.S.-China commercial relations\, Kennedy has traveled to China for 36 years. Ongoing focuses include China’s innovation drive\, Chinese industrial policy\, U.S.-China relations\, and global economic governance.  \n\n\n\nKennedy hosts the China Field Notes podcast\, featuring on-the-ground voices from China\, and the Trustee Chair co-runs the Big Data China initiative\, which introduces pathbreaking scholarly research to the policy community. From 2000-2014\, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University (IU)\, where he established the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business and was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office. Kennedy received a PhD in political science from George Washington University\, his MA from Johns Hopkins-SAIS\, and his BA from the University of Virginia.  \n\n\n\nPart of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2024 | October 5 – 12\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-scott-kennedy/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T103000
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SUMMARY:Karine Chemla - Historiography and History of Mathematical Symbolism: A View from Chinese Sources
DESCRIPTION:Register for Zoom session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Karine Chemla\, Director of Research\, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique \n\n\n\nThe common historiography of mathematical symbolism holds that it is a “European invention.” This view has been disputed based on Arabic\, Sanskrit and Chinese sources. These challenges to the mainstream historiography\, however\, tacitly accept the common understanding of what mathematical symbolism means. In this talk\, I question how we commonly conceive of mathematical symbolism\, suggesting that this conception was essential to the claim of its “Europeanness.” I further argue that sources from the ancient world help us understand mathematical symbolism better\, showing that it has a much longer and more global history than previously thought. \n\n\n\nPart of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: 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/karine-chemla-historiography-and-history-of-mathematical-symbolism-a-view-from-chinese-sources/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T140000
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SUMMARY:Dongsheng Zang — China’s Reception of the AI Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dongsheng Zang\, Associate Professor of Law\, University of Washington School of LawDongsheng Zang joined the faculty at University of Washington School of Law full-time in 2006\, after serving as a visiting assistant professor in 2005-06. His teaching and research areas include international law and comparative study of Chinese law. In recent years\, his research has focused on technology\, democracy\, and the constitution in the global context\, with particular emphasis on the United States and China. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School\, in addition to an LL.M. from Renmin University (Beijing) and LL.B. from Beijing College of Economics. His doctoral dissertation\, One-Way Transparency: The Establishment of the Rule-Based International Trade Order and the Predicament of Its Jurisprudence\, was awarded the 2004 Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize. \n\n\n\nCoffee and light snacks will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/dongsheng-zang-chinas-reception-of-the-ai-revolution/
LOCATION:Austin Hall Room 308\, 1515 Mass Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241009T163000
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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 Series — Bao Pu — An Insider’s View of Mao’s Reign: The Life of Bao Tong\, Communist Reformer
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bao Pu\, Founder\, New Century Press\, Hong Kong \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Michael Puett\, Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nMao Zedong’s 26-year reign profoundly shaped the People’s Republic of China. And yet while there have been numerous social\, political\, and economic analyses of the PRC\, the driving forces behind Mao’s policies and the inner workings of power politics at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party remain poorly understood due to lack of critical information. \n\n\n\nDrawing from a collection of largely unpublished private letters\, rare publications\, and archival records connected to Bao Tong\, the late Communist Party reformer and political secretary to Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang\, Bao’s son Bao Pu weaves his father’s experiences during Mao’s reign into a single coherent narrative. The analysis traces Bao’s personal arc\, from the young idealist who joined the Party at age of 16 to disillusioned reformer who became one of the Party’s most outspoken critics. Bao Pu uncovers surprising insights into power dynamics at China’s highest levels\, enriched by visuals from Bao Tong’s personal archives and photographs. \n\n\n\nBao Tong was the highest-ranking Chinese official imprisoned over the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square that ended in a bloody crackdown in 1989. Before that\, as Political Secretary of the CCP’s Central Committee’s Politburo Standing Committee\, he had worked on officially sanctioned plans for political reform. He was released from prison in 1997 and died in 2022 at the age of 90. \n\n\n\nBao began his career in the CCP’s Organization Department in July 1949 and remained deeply engaged with the Party’s central operations throughout his tenure. He worked closely with his mentor\, An Ziwen\, the Minister of the Organization Department\, contributing to the drafting of key documents during the turbulent years leading up to Mao’s Cultural Revolution when both them were purged. \n\n\n\nIn 1977\, Bao made a significant comeback by contributing to the drafting of Deng Xiaoping’s speech at the National Science Conference\, a pivotal moment that helped Deng rise to become the supreme leader of China. In the early 1980s\, Bao served as the secretary to Premier Zhao Ziyang and eventually ascended to the role of Political Secretary of the CCP’s Central Committee’s Politburo Standing Committee. By the late 1980s\, Bao was entrusted by General Secretary Zhao Ziyang with preparation for the Political Reform program\, which was approved at the CCP’s 13th Party Congress. \n\n\n\nHowever\, the momentum of these reforms came to a halt following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989\, leading to Bao’s imprisonment as the highest-ranking official to oppose Deng Xiaoping’s handling of the event. In his later years\, Bao continued to be an outspoken critic of the CCP. \n\n\n\nBao Pu is the Publisher and Founder of New Century Press in Hong Kong\, best known for its Chinese-language memoirs and contemporary histories of politics\, titles including Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang and The Origins of the Cultural Revolution\, by Harvard Professor Roderick MacFarquhar. Bao was awarded the Jeri Laber Interntational Freedom to Publish Award in 2010. He is the son of Bao Tong. \n\n\n\nPart of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2024 | October 5 – 12\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/bao-pu-an-insiders-view-of-maos-reign-the-life-of-bao-tong-communist-reformer/
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:20241011T113000
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SUMMARY:Yao Yu — China’s Natural Rubber Plantation in the 1950s: A Global View
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yao Yu\, Professor\, History\, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Victor Seow\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yao-yu-chinas-natural-rubber-plantation-in-the-1950s-a-global-view/
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:20241011T120000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: China and the Global Economy
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:David Yang\, Director\, Center for History and Economics and Professor of EconomicsJie Bai\, HKS Associate Professor of Public PolicyMark Wu\, Director\, Fairbank Center for China Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of LawShengqiao Lin\, CID and Fairbank Center Post-Doctoral Fellow \n\n\n\nThe need for policy and public engagement with China—through rigorous analysis\, informed perspectives and constructive dialogue— has never been more urgent. Learn more about the Harvard Center for International Development’s new initiative\, China and the Global Economy\, and how you can get involved. This will be an interactive discussion featuring CID researchers.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/cid-speaker-series-china-and-the-global-economy/
LOCATION:Ellwood Democracy Lab – Rubenstein 414AB\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T160000
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SUMMARY:Digital China Initiative Workshop — Beyond Chatbots: RAG and Agent
DESCRIPTION:register here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop delves deeper into advanced applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond simple chatbot interfaces. Participants will explore how to leverage APIs to connect various tools with LLMs\, build private knowledge bases for more accurate and context-specific generation\, and utilize agents to expand the capabilities of LLMs in Literay Sinitic Studies. \n\n\n\nTarget Audience: \n\n\n\n\nFaculty and students in Literary Sinitic Studies with basic familiarity with GenAI and looking to implement more advanced AI solutions in their work\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand the concept and importance of APIs in connecting LLMs with other tools\n\n\n\nLearn how to implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nExplore the use of AI agents to enhance LLM capabilities in research and analysis\n\n\n\n\nAlso held October 18 and 25. \n\n\n\nRegistration Page \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-china-initiative-workshop-beyond-chatbots-rag-and-agent/
LOCATION:Room 202\, 61 Kirkland St.\, 61 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T103000
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SUMMARY:Amit Prasad — Contestations over Stem Cell Ethics and the US-China Tech War: What Should We Do with Their Orientalist and Colonial Framing?
DESCRIPTION:Register for Zoom session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  Amit Prasad\, Associate Professor of History and Sociology\, Georgia Tech  \n\n\n\nPart of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: 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/amit-prasad-contestations-over-stem-cell-ethics-and-the-us-china-tech-war-what-should-we-do-with-their-orientalist-and-colonial-framing/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Lei - Urban Planning and Planners in China: Continuity and Change
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Zhang Lei\, Renmin UniversityProfessional planning in China has changed over the past four decades\, shifting from a focus on market-oriented reforms to a focus on the environment and people-centered practice. This lecture will discuss these changes at three different scales. First\, what has changed along with the transition in the urban planning system?  Second\, I examine the role local leaders play in drafting master plans\, showing that the degree of emphasis on environmental issues varies with the personal characteristics of party secretaries and mayors. I find that the education and age of local leaders have a significant effect on environmental concerns in master plans\, while their work experience and state mandate do not. Third\, I examine the role community planners have played in the case of Beijing\, showing that they play hybrid roles as technical experts\, advocates and communicators in their daily practice\, yet they exhibit a limited understanding of their role as communicative planners and how to effectively involve the public in the planning process. \n\n\n\nLei Zhang is a Professor of Urban Planning in the School of Public Administration and Policy at Renmin University of China. He completed his Ph.D. in planning at the University of Tokyo. He serves on several academic committees within the Urban Planning Society of China\, including as the secretary-general of the Planning Implementation Committee.  His research focuses on explaining institutional diversity and evolution in urban planning and development control\, and in particular\, the changing role of political power and public involvement in plans and planning in China and other East Asian Countries. He also explores the role of informal institutions in shaping place and space in China’s mega-cities. \n\n\n\nThis event series is sponsored by the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom Meeting.Meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/93343229272 \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-lei/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241016T131500
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David Zweig — China’s Battle for Talent and Technology
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Zweig\, Professor Emeritus\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Taipei School of Economics and Political Science\, National Tsinghua University\, Taiwan; Vice President\, Center for China and Globalization (Beijing) \n\n\n\nIn the mid-1990s\, China’s hope for a “reverse brain drain” of overseas scientists\, academics\, and entrepreneurs stalled. So\, in 2001\, Jiang Zemin introduced China’s ‘Diaspora Option\,’ to encourage PRC-born Chinese living abroad to “serve the country” without “returning to the country.” Through a multipronged array of programs organized by government ministries and the CCP\, these former citizens have transferred their knowledge back home\, some to repay or strengthen their former homeland\, others from self-interest.  \n\n\n\nIn 2018\, the Trump Administration declared war on China’s efforts to access this information through the “China Initiative.” Hundreds of Chinese were investigated\, their research was disrupted\, and more than 100 were fired. Yet almost none were found guilty of espionage or theft of intellectual property. \n\n\n\nThis seminar documents China’s “over-the-top” effort to gain the help of these talented Chinese\, as well as the US government’s harsh effort to disrupt the transfer of US technology to China. It tells the stories of unknown victims of that campaign. It also highlights the harm this war has brought to Sino-American scientific collaboration. \n\n\n\nDavid Zweig (Ph.D.\, The University of Michigan\, 1983) is Professor Emeritus\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Taipei School of Economics and Political Science\, National Tsinghua University\, Taiwan\, and Vice-President of the Center for China and Globalization (Beijing). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard in 1984-85\, and received the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship\, Research Grants Council\, Hong Kong\, 2013-14. For 15 years\, he directed the Center on China’s Transnational Relations at HKUST. \n\n\n\nHe has surveyed hundreds of Chinese who returned home and many who remain abroad. In 2012\, he briefed Li Yuanchao\, Director of the Organization Department of the CCP\, about why his 1000 Talents Plan was struggling. He was an expert witness in the defense of two Chinese professors under the Trump Administration’s “China Initiative.” \n\n\n\nHe has authored or edited ten books\, including Internationalizing China and China’s Brain Drain to the U.S.(Routledge). Over 40\,000 students have taken his two online classes with COURSERA on domestic Chinese Politics and on China and the World. \n\n\n\nThis talk is based on his new book\, The War for Chinese Talent in America: The politics of technology and knowledge in Sino-U.S. relations which was published in the Asia Shorts Series of the Association of Asian Studies and is distributed by Columbia University Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-david-zweig/
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:20241017T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T130000
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SUMMARY:Zhang Jing — A Modernization Marching to Revolution: Science\, Technology\, and Diplomacy in Mao’s China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Jing\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant\, Arunabh Ghosh\, Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nAs a set of terms\, “modernization” and its earlier discursive forms\, such as “industrialization” and “Westernization\,” have been continuously invoked by historical actors and historians throughout over a century of Chinese history\, particularly during different historical stages such as the armed revolution\, socialist revolution and construction\, and the reform and opening up under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This discursive phenomenon runs through various events in China’s recent century-long history\, all referred to as “revolutions.” These include a series of continuous struggles led by the CCP against “colonialism\,” “imperialism\,” “feudalism\,” “capitalism\,” “bureaucratism\,” and “liberalism.” The invocation of the term “modernization” by CCP leaders often served as a goal for the revolution to achieve or as a vision of construction after revolutionary success\, aimed at rallying and inspiring revolutionary actions. The only notable exception largely occurred between 1966 and 1975. The modernization project initiated by Mao Zedong during the socialist revolution (1949-1956)\, which underwent a decade of exploration in socialist construction (1956-1966)\, ultimately devolved into the self-destructive and chaotic “Cultural Revolution” in 1966. To address the issue of this “modernization paradox” in the Maoist era\, Professor Zhang will attempt to establish an interpretive framework from the perspective of discursive practice and state-building. Through a critical analysis of the relationship between discourse\, knowledge\, and power\, she will examine the participation of discourse in state-building practices in the fields of science\, technology\, and diplomacy during the Maoist period. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhang-jing-a-modernization-leading-to-revolution-science-technology-and-diplomacy-in-maos-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:20241018T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T160000
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SUMMARY:Digital China Initiative Workshop — Beyond Chatbots: RAG and Agent
DESCRIPTION:register here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop delves deeper into advanced applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond simple chatbot interfaces. Participants will explore how to leverage APIs to connect various tools with LLMs\, build private knowledge bases for more accurate and context-specific generation\, and utilize agents to expand the capabilities of LLMs in Literay Sinitic Studies. \n\n\n\nTarget Audience: \n\n\n\n\nFaculty and students in Literary Sinitic Studies with basic familiarity with GenAI and looking to implement more advanced AI solutions in their work\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nUnderstand the concept and importance of APIs in connecting LLMs with other tools\n\n\n\nLearn how to implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Literary Sinitic Studies\n\n\n\nExplore the use of AI agents to enhance LLM capabilities in research and analysis\n\n\n\n\nAlso held October 11 and 25. \n\n\n\nRegistration Page \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/digital-china-initiative-workshop-beyond-chatbots-rag-and-agent-2/
LOCATION:Room 202\, 61 Kirkland St.\, 61 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241018T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond-2/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond-3/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Shoufu Yin — The China that Could Have Been: Counterfactual Imagination and Political Thought\, 1313-1621
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shoufu Yin\, Assistant Professor of History\, University of British Columbia \n\n\n\nWhat could China—or the entire world—have been? Starting in the fourteenth century\, hundreds of thousands of individuals in present-day China\, Korea\, and Vietnam were ruminating on this question in their own ways. They began by placing themselves in a moment in Chinese history\, composing documents from the perspectives of the historical figures in question. In this process\, they argued that these figures could have acted differently and that China could have been a different place—even though actual history unfolded otherwise. This talk traces how this form of counterfactualism gained popularity in East Asia through a shared curriculum and explores how such mediated political imaginations transformed the broader intellectual landscape. Specifically\, using sources in Mongolian\, Persian\, and other languages\, I contend that the Inner Asian tradition played a critical role in shaping the educational curriculum of the Sinitic sphere. Combining data visualization and close reading\, I turn to long-forgotten individuals in Seoul\, Suzhou\, and other places. Through their counterfactual ventures\, as we shall see\, these historical thinkers theorized what could and should have been possible for each individual and opened up new possibilities for being in a political society. \n\n\n\nShoufu Yin is an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia. His expertise lies in the intellectual and political cultures of China and Inner Asia from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. Delving into sources in Chinese\, Manchu\, Mongolian\, Persian\, and various European languages\, he endeavors to show how previously unknown and marginalized thinkers had contributed to important themes in theory and philosophy. His first book manuscript\, The China That Could Have Been: Rhetoric and Political Thought\, 1100–1600 (currently under review)\, contends that the everyday political imagination of countless individuals lays the foundation of modern political thought. His next book\, titled 1156: China’s Referendum\, will trace how emic concepts and indigenous experiences from China can help us reframe and rewrite the global history of democratization. He has also been conducting research for another major project that rethinks global intellectual transformations through the lens of Manchu- and Mongolian-language historiographies of the seventeenth century. His recent articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review\, Journal of the History of Ideas\, History of Political Thought\, Journal of Asian Studies\, T’oung Pao\, Journal of Chinese History\, Korean Studies\, and other platforms. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-yin-shoufu/
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:20241021T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T174500
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
CREATED:20240812T142027Z
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Janet Chen - Medium or Message? The Politics of Language in Broadcasting in Taiwan\, 1945-1975
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Janet Y. Chen\, Professor of Chinese History; Director\, East Asian Studies Program\, Princeton University \n\n\n\nAt the end of 1975\, the KMT government in Taiwan passed the Radio and Television Law\, designating Mandarin as the “primary language of broadcasting” and mandating the reduction of dialect. This legislation\, which took effect in January 1976\, was the culmination of more than twenty years of debates over the politics of language in mass media. Radio and television broadcasting were crucial components of the state apparatus for fighting the “psychological war” (心戰) of “opposing the Communists and resisting the Soviets” (反共抗俄). Yet using the national language as the medium of broadcasting made it difficult to effectively disseminate the messages crucial to sustaining the cause of anti-Communism. Programming in Minnanhua and Hakka could reach wider audiences\, but at the cost of diluting the national language project. Which was more important—the medium or the message? This talk will examine changes in the mass media environment\, the effects on people’s interactions with the KMT’s ideological goals\, and the history of Radio and Television Law. \n\n\n\nJanet Chen is Professor of History and East Asian Studies\, specializing in twentieth-century China.  Her first book\, Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China\, 1900-1953(Link is external)(Princeton University Press\, 2012)\, is a study of the destitute homeless during a time of war and revolution.  A new book project underway\, titled “The Sounds of Mandarin: The Making of a National Language in China and Taiwan\,” will be a study of how ordinary people learned to speak “Mandarin” at its various stages of historical formation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-janet-chen/
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:20241022T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T130000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
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SUMMARY:Jim Suk-Fong (Theodora) - Divine Saving in Greek and Chinese Polytheism
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jim Suk-Fong (Theodora)\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Greek History\, The University of Nottingham; HYI Library Research Scholar\, 2024Chair/Discussant: Michael Puett\, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nContrary to the tendency to study ancient Mediterranean religions in isolation from religions in the Far East\, this project brings together for the first time two world polytheistic systems: ancient Greece and premodern China. It embraces Marcel Detienne’s call to ‘compare the incomparable’. In this seminar I will share the findings on one aspect of this project: divine saving. The central question is: how did worshippers in two major polytheistic traditions imagine\, experience\, and represent the divine saving as they confronted the unknown and unknowable? I will look at the wide-ranging power of the gods in the Greek and Chinese pantheons on the one hand\, and worshippers’ religious beliefs\, practices and experience of worshippers on the other. I hope also to shed light on the Greek and Chinese religious worldviews and perceptions of their gods\, and ultimately to open up new questions for the study of both fields. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jim-suk-fong-theodora-divine-saving-in-greek-and-chinese-polytheism/
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:20241022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
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SUMMARY:Michael C. Davis — Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Michael Davis\, Global Fellow\, Wilson Center; Senior Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asia Institute; Professor of Law and International Affairs\, O.P. Jindal Global University. Discussant: Dennis Kwok\, Partner\, Elliott Kwok Levine Jaroslaw Neils LLP \n\n\n\nWhat happens when liberal constitutional institutions guaranteeing basic freedoms are undone? Can Freedom survive the loss of separation of powers with the associated legal and political accountability? The Chinese Communist Party\, as a core part of its national security agenda\, has been at the forefront in its disdain for liberal institutions and promoting illiberal alternatives. This disdain placed Hong Kong’s people on the frontlines of the global struggle for freedom. Since its handover from Britain\, the city has felt the brunt of China’s illiberal agenda. In 2019 this took on greater intensity with an aggressive police crackdown on protesters\, quickly followed in 2020 by Beijing’s imposition of a National Security Law\, in 2021 by the imposition of a patriots only electoral system and in 2024 by enactment of local national security legislation. Thousands have been jailed and a city famous for vigorous protests has been silenced. Professor Michael C. Davis\, who taught human rights in the city for decades\, takes us on the constitutional journey of both the city’s vigorous defense of freedom and its repressive undoing—a painful loss for Hong Kong and a lesson for the world. Discussion can be expected to engage the still ongoing crisis in Hong Kong and the implications of the wider liberal/illiberal debate.Open to Harvard ID holders. Registration required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-c-davis-freedom-undone-the-assault-on-liberal-values-and-institutions-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:124 Mount Auburn Street Suite 200N\, Ash Center Seminar Room 225\, 124 Mt. Auburn St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
CREATED:20241010T164101Z
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SUMMARY:Asia Beyond Borders: Transnational Activist Connections from Sun and Ho's Day to this Era of Lennon Walls and Three-Finger Salutes 
DESCRIPTION:RSVP \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jeffrey Wasserstrom\, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California\, Irvine Moderator: James Robson\, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Director\, Harvar-Yenching Institute  \n\n\n\nIn-person event. RSVP appreciated.  \n\n\n\nThis presentation will look at some of the various ways that activists fighting for change in different parts of Asia have learned from and collaborated with one another during the last century and more. The presenter will draw on work he has done throughout a career that began with a dissertation on Shanghai student protests of the first half of the 1900s\, included a ten-year stint as Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies\, and has recently found him focusing on the ties between twenty-first-century youth movements in Hong Kong and Bangkok. One of his central arguments will be that for over a century repertoires of resistance in Asia have been flowing across not just the divisions between individual countries but also those that scholars often use to draw distinctions between multi-country regions within Asia. Another will be that even in this era of rapid global flows\, even young activists versed in digital media who sometimes draw inspiration from things happening in and symbols associated with lands on the other side of the planet are often especially interested in and influenced by things taking place relatively nearby.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-beyond-borders-transnational-activist-connections-from-sun-and-hos-day-to-this-era-of-lennon-walls-and-three-finger-salutes/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T150000
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SUMMARY:Sheng Liu — Why Climatic Uncertainty Matters to Building Energy Performance: Case Studies in a Subtropical High-Density City
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Sheng Liu\, Assistant Professor\, School of Architecture\, Southwest Jiaotong University; Visiting Scholar\, Harvard-China Project (SEAS) and Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) \n\n\n\nDr. Sheng Liu is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture\, Southwest Jiaotong University who works on climate-responding architecture design and low-carbon city design. His research interests include sustainable architecture design\, building performance simulation and optimization\, climate change and building adaptation\, urban microclimate and indoor thermal comfort. He received his Ph.D. in Architecture from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Architecture\, the University of Hong Kong. He had worked as an architect in mainland China before starting academic research. Dr. Liu has published more than 20 leading peer-reviewed scientific journal publications for the past five years such as in Building and Environment\, Sustainable Cities and Society\, Energy and Buildings\, including two ESI highly citied papers. He is also the recipient of Postgraduate Research Output Award of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021 and 2023 Green Building Award of HKGBC. For more information\, visit his website.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sheng-liu-why-climatic-uncertainty-matters-to-building-energy-performance-case-studies-in-a-subtropical-high-density-city/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T211500
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SUMMARY:Laikwan Pang - One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: Laikwan Pang\, Chinese University of Hong KongYurou Zhong\, University of TorontoHang Tu\, National University of SingaporeModerator:David Der-wei Wang\, Harvard UniversityCo-Sponsors: East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard UniversityChiang Ching-kuo FoundationFairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jmaBY41-TSS6wjgs6fWQmQ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/laikwan-pang-one-and-all-the-logic-of-chinese-sovereignty/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T130000
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CREATED:20241002T195850Z
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SUMMARY:Sung Eun Kim - Circumventing the Liberal Order: Protectionism with Chinese Characteristics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sung Eun Kim\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, Korea University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Stephen Chaudoin\, Assistant Professor\, Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk will explore how China navigates its position as a rising power within the U.S.-led liberal economic order by employing veiled protectionist measures that align with international rules while advancing its domestic interests. As a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO)\, China faces the challenge of balancing its reputation as a responsible global actor with the need to protect its industries. This talk will examine China’s strategic use of opaque protectionist tools such as media control\, health and safety standards\, and selective regulatory enforcement to promote domestic industry growth while avoiding direct confrontation with global trade institutions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sung-eun-kim-circumventing-the-liberal-order-protectionism-with-chinese-characteristics/
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:20241025T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
CREATED:20241010T155643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T155644Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond-4/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
CREATED:20241009T205556Z
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SUMMARY:JFK Jr. Forum - A Conversation with Ambassador Kevin Rudd
DESCRIPTION:Register with a harvard e-mail address\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Kevin Rudd\, Australia’s Ambassador to the United States and Former Prime Minister of Australia \n\n\n\nModerators:Graham Alison\, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government\, Harvard UniversityMark Wu\, Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law  \n\n\n\nIn Rudd’s summary\, Xi is “part emperor and part revolutionary socialist.” Drawing on his direct experience with Xi\, as well as his analysis of Xi in the years since\, Ambassador Rudd will help us understand an individual who has been called the most ambitious and consequential leader on the international stage today.  \n\n\n\nCo-sponsors: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nPlease register with a valid Harvard email address to attend in-person. All JFK Jr. Forums are publicly livestreamed on YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/jfk-jr-forum-a-conversation-with-ambassador-kevin-rudd/
LOCATION:JFK Jr. Forum\, Harvard Kennedy School\, 79 John F. Kennedy St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T180000
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond-5/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T123839
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SUMMARY:Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:reserve a ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks\, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. \n\n\n\nDunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking over centuries\, Dunhuang forms the largest encyclopedia art collection in situ. More significant than these artistic achievements\, the caves offer a glimpse into a universe that rests beyond our known physical reality. Much like the shadowy illusions of Plato’s allegorical cave\, the pictorial programs across Dunhuang’s caves reveal higher truths about life\, death\, and spiritual transcendence. \n\n\n\nThis fall\, CAMLab contextualizes Dunhuang within Buddhism’s broader currents of space- and art-making that surged across China during the medieval period.• Immersing visitors in confluences of light and sound\, the Cave Dance and Shadow Cave projects are case studies of two Dunhuang caves that reimagine the rich theatricality conjured by depictions of the dramas of the Buddha’s life and dances of transcendent beings. \n\n\n\n• Rebuilding the world’s tallest pagoda in VR\, the Embodied Architecture project invokes an 11the century transmission of these dynamics within the towering Shayka pagoda of the Fogang Monastery in present-day Yingxian\, China. There\, Buddhist pictorial motifs demarcate a journey of ascension toward enlightenment. \n\n\n\n• The Digital Temple project uses an interactive interface to unpack the multiplicity of compositions and multivalent topographies rendered across the murals of Kaihua monastery. \n\n\n\nBy examining Buddhism’s three primary contexts in medieval China—the cave\, the pagoda\, and the temple—these CAMLab projects reveal the dramatic perceptual experiences and invisible force fields embedded by visual programs within Buddhist sites.Reserve Your Ticket \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/exhibit-dunhuang-and-beyond-6/
LOCATION:Sackler Building\, Lower Level\, 485 Broadway\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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