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Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
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Rethinking UN Resolution 2758 and Taiwan’s International Participation
Rethinking UN Resolution 2758 and Taiwan’s International Participation
Speakers:Johnson Sen Chiang, Deputy Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in the USRyan Hass, Director, Brookings Institution John L. Thornton China Center; Former Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolian Affairs, White House National Security Council Moderator: Wenchi Yu, International Affairs Journalist, TVBS television, Taiwan; Ash Center Non-Resident Research Fellow Join the […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Edward Wong — The Empire Reborn: China’s Expansion and Nationalism Today
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Edward Wong — The Empire Reborn: China’s Expansion and Nationalism Today
Speaker: Edward Wong, Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times Moderator: Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University From the the earliest days of its rule, the Communist Party poured resources into reconstituting the Qing Empire. Edward Wong talks about his father’s role in the military […]
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Chang-Min Yu — The Use of the Modern and Taiwanese Film History
Chang-Min Yu — The Use of the Modern and Taiwanese Film History
Speaker: Chang-Min Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University This talk will address a fundamental issue in the writing of film history: how do we articulate the relationship between modernity/modernization and film history without determination? […]
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PRC @ 75 – Film Screening – The Dreamers Revisited: Bumming in Beijing (Original Extended Version), featuring an introduction by Eugene Yuejin Wang & Q+A with Wu Wenguang and Dingru Huang
PRC @ 75 – Film Screening – The Dreamers Revisited: Bumming in Beijing (Original Extended Version), featuring an introduction by Eugene Yuejin Wang & Q+A with Wu Wenguang and Dingru Huang
Introduction: Eugene Yuejin Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art; Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab, Harvard University. Q+A Discussion: Dingru Huang, Rumsey Family Junior Professor in the Humanities and the Arts, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, Tufts University; former Fairbank Center associateProgrammer: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesFollowed by a Zoom Q+A […]
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
This workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create, manage, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies. Participants will learn basic database concepts, use Nocodb for data storage, and explore how GenAI can assist in scraping, cleaning, and classifying data. The workshop will also cover fundamental analysis techniques for the resulting digital collection. Target […]
1 event,
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
1 event,
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
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China-North Korea Dynamics: Is Their Bond Eroding as North Korea Draws Closer to Russia?
China-North Korea Dynamics: Is Their Bond Eroding as North Korea Draws Closer to Russia?
Speaker: Seong-Hyon Lee, Associate, Harvard University Asia Center; Former China Director, Sejong Institute, SeoulModerator: Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University The talk will examine the evolving China-North Korea relationship, particularly as Pyongyang strengthens its ties with Russia and how this […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Selda Altan — Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Selda Altan — Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway
Speaker: Selda Altan, Assistant Professor of History, Randolph College This talk explores labor conflicts during the construction of the French railway between China and Vietnam (1898–1910) as an episode in the emergence of Chinese workers as a global working class. Drawing on Chinese, French, and English sources, the discussion reveals how inter-colonial competition for cheap […]
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Visiting Fellow Presentation and Discussion featuring Mitch Presnick — Leveraging China’s Strengths as Alternative to Decoupling: Opportunities for Multinational Companies
Visiting Fellow Presentation and Discussion featuring Mitch Presnick — Leveraging China’s Strengths as Alternative to Decoupling: Opportunities for Multinational Companies
Speaker: Mitch Presnick, Visiting Fellow of Practice, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Founder, Super 8 Hotels, ChinaDiscussant: William Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration and T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University In 1978, Deng Xiaoping Relaunched his “Reform and Opening” policy to leverage Western technology and know-how for China’s development … Deng recognized […]
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Kaiping Zhang — Governing China in the Digital Age: Legacies, Challenges, and Transformations
Kaiping Zhang — Governing China in the Digital Age: Legacies, Challenges, and Transformations
Speaker: Kaiping Zhang, Associate Professor, Political Science, Tsinghua University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Yuhua Wang,Professor of Government, Harvard University China has carried numerous historical legacies of governance from the imperial and revolutionary eras into the digital age. How do these historical shadows clash with a modernized, networked society? Drawing on computational analyses of extensive data […]
Transforming Classical Chinese Texts into Searchable Databases with AI
Transforming Classical Chinese Texts into Searchable Databases with AI
Speaker: Guenther Lomas, Founder, Sigtica As artificial intelligence becomes integral to the digital humanities, it offers innovative methods that transform research capabilities and uncover new insights into historical texts and cultural narratives. This talk will demonstrate how AI-powered pipelines can process large volumes of unstructured classical Chinese texts, such as genealogies and Qing dynasty government employee records, […]
PRC @ 75 – Memory as Resistance: From Tiananmen to Hong Kong featuring Rowena Xiaoqing He
PRC @ 75 – Memory as Resistance: From Tiananmen to Hong Kong featuring Rowena Xiaoqing He
Speaker: Rowena Xiaoqing He (何曉清), Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas Austin; author, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaDiscussant: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School This talk is grounded in over two decades of fieldwork on the preservation of historical memory […]
2 events,
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
This workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create, manage, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies. Participants will learn basic database concepts, use Nocodb for data storage, and explore how GenAI can assist in scraping, cleaning, and classifying data. The workshop will also cover fundamental analysis techniques for the resulting digital collection. Target […]
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
1 event,
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
1 event,
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
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Taiwan Studies Workshop — The American Election Results: The View from Taipei
Taiwan Studies Workshop — The American Election Results: The View from Taipei
Panelists:Christine Lai, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, TaiwanKevin Luo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota Twin CitiesAndrew Nien-dzu Yang, Secretary General, Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies (CAPS)Steven M. Goldstein, Taiwan Studies Workshop Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThis event takes place at 8:00PM EST on November 11 […]
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Fei Huang — Bathing Through Time and Landscape: A Longue Durée History of Hot Springs in China (1000–1945)
Fei Huang — Bathing Through Time and Landscape: A Longue Durée History of Hot Springs in China (1000–1945)
Speaker: Fei Huang, Professor of Chinese History and Society, University of Tübingen Part of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Liu Zheng — Chinese Greenways: Innovative Planning, Governance, and Urbanism
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Liu Zheng — Chinese Greenways: Innovative Planning, Governance, and Urbanism
Speakers: Liu Zheng, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, South China University of Technology Greenways are linear green corridors that are planned, designed, and managed for multi-use purposes. The introduction of the greenway concept to China, particularly from the American context, can be traced back to the 1990s. However, widespread development of greenways in China only began […]
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Haiyang Lin — Discrepancies Between Estimated and Actual Wind Power Generation in the U.S. and China
Haiyang Lin — Discrepancies Between Estimated and Actual Wind Power Generation in the U.S. and China
Speaker: Haiyang Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project The urgency of addressing climate change is evident, and wind energy plays a vital role in global strategies to reduce carbon emissions and transition toward a sustainable energy future. Accurate assessments of wind resources are crucial for this transition. However, current wind energy development and research heavily rely on […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Tyler Jost — Bureaucracy and Blunder: How Politics Shapes China’s Policymaking
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Tyler Jost — Bureaucracy and Blunder: How Politics Shapes China’s Policymaking
Speaker: Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies, Brown UniversityModerator: Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Fairbank Center AssociateWhen are China’s leaders able to extract quality information from their diplomatic, defense, and intelligence bureaucracies during international crises? Tyler Jost’s […]
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Conference: Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism and the Institution of the Dalai Lama
Reincarnation recognition began in the 13th century as a distinctive practice in Tibetan Buddhism to ensure continuity in spiritual authority across successive lives of religious masters. Over time such recognized reincarnations took on significant temporal power as well, particularly the line of the Dalai Lamas who were instrumental in the formation of the Tibetan Ganden […]
Angela Zhang —U.S. Tech Policy Toward China: Growing Parallels Between Washington and Beijing?
Angela Zhang —U.S. Tech Policy Toward China: Growing Parallels Between Washington and Beijing?
Speaker: Angela Huyue Zhang, Professor of Law, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law In this talk, I will pose the provocative question of whether America is now acting like China in its attempt to contain China’s technological rise. Amid the escalating Sino-U.S. tech war, the United States has built an unprecedented legal machine […]
3 events,
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
This workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create, manage, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies. Participants will learn basic database concepts, use Nocodb for data storage, and explore how GenAI can assist in scraping, cleaning, and classifying data. The workshop will also cover fundamental analysis techniques for the resulting digital collection. Target […]
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
1 event,
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
1 event,
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
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冷战史研究与档案的开放和利用
冷战史研究与档案的开放和利用
Speaker: Zhihua Shen, Director, Center for Cold War International History Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai Chair: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University The presentation will be given in Chinese, with slides and Q&A in English and Chinese. 历史研究者的基本责任就在于揭开历史真相，尽可能地还原历史的本来面貌，而要做到这一点，就必须不断地发掘、梳理和解读原始档案和文献。本次讲座以中苏同盟起草、1958年炮击金门、周恩来与斯大林的黑海会谈、刘少奇与斯大林会谈等有关档案的利用与研究为案例，以此揭示冷战国际史研究与档案文献的开发与研究之间的复杂关系。 Why and how did the Cold War begin? The origins of the […]
Daniel Kritenbrink — America’s Future in East Asia
Daniel Kritenbrink — America’s Future in East Asia
Speaker: Daniel Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of StateModerator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityAlso via Zoom. Register here. Venue
China Humanities Seminar featuring Ya Zuo — Fighting Feelings with Feelings: The Quanzhen Daoist Ordering of Emotional Life
China Humanities Seminar featuring Ya Zuo — Fighting Feelings with Feelings: The Quanzhen Daoist Ordering of Emotional Life
Speaker: Ya Zuo, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara Quanzhen Daoism wielded a profound influence across eastern Eurasia, shaping the intellectual landscape of the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234) and leaving a lasting impact on the Mongol Yuan empire (1279–1368). In this talk, I delve into the focus on emotions in Quanzhen philosophy. The religion […]
Eurasia From the East, 2024
Eurasia From the East, 2024
Speakers:David Wolff, Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido UniversityNorihiro Naganawa, Professor on Russian and Eurasian History, Hokkaido UniversityAkihiro Iwashita, Professor, Department of Slavic-Eurasian Studies, Hokkaido UniversitySerhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History / Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute , Harvard University As we approach the third year of the war in Ukraine, […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anne Stevenson-Yang — What Happens After the Chinese Miracle?
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anne Stevenson-Yang — What Happens After the Chinese Miracle?
Speaker: Anne Stevenson-Yang, Founder and Reseach Director, J Capital ResearchModerator: Anthony Saich,Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Anne Stevenson-Yang co-founded J Capital Research, which publishes highly diligenced research reports on publicly traded companies. She also writes a weekly research piece called China Primary Insight. Over 25 […]
Fan Dai — Certainties out of the Uncertain: Subnational Climate Diplomacy Between the U.S. and China
Fan Dai — Certainties out of the Uncertain: Subnational Climate Diplomacy Between the U.S. and China
Speaker: Fan Dai, Director, California-China Climate Institute, University of California, Berkeley; Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Dr. Fan Dai is the director of California-China Climate Institute, and adjunct faculty at Energy and Resource Group, University of […]
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Xiaolu Ma – Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)
Xiaolu Ma – Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)
Speaker: Xiaolu Ma Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Moderator: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era. Drawing on […]
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
1 event,
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
1 event,
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond
A 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. Dunhuang’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 […]
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Household Registration: A Tale of Two Cities
Household Registration: A Tale of Two Cities
Speaker: Anthony Saich, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School The household registration system (hukou) is widely seen as a major factor contributing to inequality in China. Individuals’ benefits depend on where their registration is located, with rural residents […]
Jeongsoo Shin — Can Korean Calligraphers Write Like Wang Xizhi? The Mujangsa Stele and its Reception in a Sino-Korean Context
Jeongsoo Shin — Can Korean Calligraphers Write Like Wang Xizhi? The Mujangsa Stele and its Reception in a Sino-Korean Context
Speaker: Jeongsoo Shin, Associate Professor, Korean Cultural Studies, The Academy of Korean Studies; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University From the late eighteenth century, Chinese scholars took a keen interest in the steles of early Korea. Some inscriptions on those steles were seen as material evidence of ancient Chinese […]
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Sarah Chang — From Xiagang (layoffs)to the New Silk Road: SOE Reform and Urban Renewal in Southwestern China from the 1990s to the Present
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Sarah Chang — From Xiagang (layoffs)to the New Silk Road: SOE Reform and Urban Renewal in Southwestern China from the 1990s to the Present
Speakers: Sarah Chang, Assistant Professor of History, Miami UniversityThis presentation examines the relationship between urban renewal projects and SOE closures from the late 1990s to today. It uses published government and factory documents, oral history, and ethnography to explore how Chengdu’s urbanizing projects after the 2000s redefined the purpose of urban space, ejected industrial communities from […]
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