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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Liu Zhi — What Drives Urban Regeneration Action in China Today?
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:  Liu Zhi\, Peking University-Lincoln InstituteOver the last few years\, the Chinese government has actively promoted urban regeneration action across the country. However\, many projects are not justified by demand and struggle to attract investment. Others lack rigorous feasibility studies and economic assessments\, posing significant risk of inefficient or wasteful investment. Behind this phenomenon is what I call “investment impulse\,” a bureaucratic incentive that uses public investment not to meet demand in a cost-effective way\, but to increase the size of local GDP. What drives the investment impulse? Placing the urban regeneration action into a broad context of China’s public capital investment behavior\, I argue that the investment impulse is an unintended consequence of China’s political and economic management system and can be avoided with policy reform measures. \n\n\n\nZhi Liu is Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of China and Asia Program\, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy\, and Director\, Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy. His research interests are mainly in land and housing policy\, infrastructure economics and policy\, municipal finance\, and urban and regional planning. Before joining Lincoln Institute in 2013\, he was a lead infrastructure specialist at the World Bank\, with years of operational experience in the infrastructure and urban sectors. He is co-editor of International Housing Market Experience and Implications for China (Routledge 2019) and Infrastructure Economic and Policy: International Perspectives (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy\, 2022). \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-liu-zhi/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Mark Baker — 𝘗𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢: 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘡𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘻𝘩𝘰𝘶
DESCRIPTION:zoom registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Mark Baker\, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of East Asian History at the University of Manchester\, UK. Moderator: Xiang Zhou\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nPivot of China (Harvard Asia Center\, 2024) examines spatial inequality across China’s twentieth century and beyond. It argues that by focusing on certain kinds of places\, people and infrastructures\, the development strategies of successive Chinese states exacerbated inequality in multiple dimensions: rural-urban\, inter-city\, and inter-regional. Pivot of China explores this story through the city of Zhengzhou – an unheralded inland regional center\, ‘pivot’ not just of China’s railroad network but also between the winners and losers of modern China’s spatial politics.  \n\n\n\nOnline via Zoom webinar. To join\, register here.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mark-baker-%f0%9d%98%97%f0%9d%98%aa%f0%9d%98%b7%f0%9d%98%b0%f0%9d%98%b5-%f0%9d%98%b0%f0%9d%98%a7-%f0%9d%98%8a%f0%9d%98%a9%f0%9d%98%aa%f0%9d%98%af%f0%9d%98%a2-%f0%9d%98%9a%f0%9d%98%b1/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Yu Zhao — The Effectiveness of China's Emission Controls on Air Quality\, Deposition and Health Burdens
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Yu Zhao\, Professor\, School of Environment\, Nanjing University; Alumnus (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Collaborator\, Harvard-China Project \n\n\n\nDr. Yu Zhao is a Professor in the School of Environment at Nanjing University. His research interests include the quantification and evaluation of air pollutant emissions with multiple measures; analysis of regional and city air quality and its improvement strategy; and assessment of ecological and environmental health effects from energy and climate policies and air pollutant emission controls. He is a former postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, and additionally held a research assistantship at the International Institute of Applied System and Analysis\, Austria. He is the receipient of the Second-class Award of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Prize and the National Outstanding Ph.D Dissertation Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yu-zhao-the-effectiveness-of-chinas-emission-controls-on-air-quality-deposition-and-health-burdens/
LOCATION:Pierce Hall 100F\, 29 Oxford St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T113000
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SUMMARY:Heejung Seo-Reich — The Emergence of the Aesthetic Subject in Zhuangzi
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Heejung Seo-Reich\, Associate Professor\, School of International Studies\, Sun Yat-Sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Michael Puett\, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Director\, Asia Center\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nWhat is East Asian aesthetics? In the study of aesthetics\, there has been considerable doubt about the relevance of academic discussions to the East Asian context. However\, this study assumes that the aesthetic thinking in East and West is fundamentally interconnected and based on common human emotions. I will endeavor to find a prototype of the aesthetic subject—a figure that represents this emotionally driven perspective in the Zhuangzi. To facilitate this\, I divide the subjects depicted in the Zhuangzi into three different types: wo (我)\, ou (耦)\, and wu (吾). By examining the unique characteristics of these subjects through their interactions with the things around them\, we can better understand the aesthetic subject in the Zhuangzi as one that transcends cognitive limitations by redefining the relationships between subject and things. This approach not only enriches our understanding of East Asian aesthetics\, but also emphasizes the universal nature of human emotional experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/heejung-seo-reich-the-emergence-of-the-aesthetic-subject-in-zhuangzi/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Webinar: The Global Impact of the United States Election
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Erica Chenoweth\, Academic Dean for Faculty Development; Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJay Rosengard\, Chair\, Indonesia Public Policy Program\, Rajawali InstituteAnthony Saich\, Director\, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nYou are invited to an online event featuring Ash Center faculty Erica Chenoweth\, Jay Rosengard\, and Anthony Saich\, who will discuss the global impact of the incoming Trump administration. \n\n\n\nThis webinar is part of the 2024 U.S. Election Webinar Series sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. As the United States heads to the polls in November and in its aftermath\, this series will convene scholars and practitioners to discuss down-ballot issues\, election administration\, election security\, voter trends\, and more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/webinar-the-global-impact-of-the-united-states-election/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241210T203000
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Philipp Demgenski — The Burden of the Past: Housing Expropriation and the Changing Priorities of Inner-City Redevelopment in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:   Philipp Demgenski\, Institute of Anthropology\, Department of Sociology\, Zhejiang UniversityUnder current Chinese leadership\, inner-city redevelopment has shifted from a “demolish and rebuild” (da chai da jian) model to prioritizing heritage preservation (baohu) and “subtle redevelopment” (wei gaizao)\, with policies prohibiting violent evictions\, requiring public interest justification\, and promoting transparency in housing expropriation. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork\, in this presentation\, I explore how these changes have played out at the micro level of urban society in the concrete negotiations over housing expropriation and compensation in the old\, former colonial town centre of Qingdao. I show that while these policies aim to enhance the “quality” of redevelopment and bolster government legitimacy\, they often fall short. Launching a housing expropriation and renewal scheme has\, I argue\, been much like opening a Pandora’s box in unleashing unresolved legacies and burdens of the past. Redevelopment announcements created expectations and triggered actions relative to compensation that the local government was unable to effectively address. This hints at the multifaceted challenges that China faces in reforming its redevelopment practices. \n\n\n\nPhilipp Demgenski is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology at Zhejiang University. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research has been focusing on urban redevelopment and heritage politics in China as well as global heritage governance. His book “Seeking a Future for the Past: Space\, power\, and heritage in a Chinese city” was published in 2024 with Michigan University Press. He was previously a member of the “UNESCO Frictions” project at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales\, researching the implementation of the UNESCO 2003 Convention in China\, Brazil and Greece. \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-philipp-demgenski/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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SUMMARY:Yi-Chieh Lin — AI Meets Journalism: Rethinking Ethics\, Efficiency\, and Integrity in Taiwanese Newsrooms
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yi-Chieh Lin\,  Associate Professor\, Department of Journalism\, National Chengchi University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: John P. Wihbey\, Associate Professor\, Media Innovation and Technology\, Northeastern University \n\n\n\nThis study explores journalists’ perspectives on the perils and possibilities of using generative AI tools in Taiwanese newsrooms\, comparing specific applications across news reporting processes in Taiwan and the United States. Through semi-structured interviews with Taiwanese journalists\, the talk examines how AI reshapes journalistic practices\, focusing on its impact on efficiency\, ethics\, organizational culture\, and audience engagement. \n\n\n\nDrawing on journalism ethics as a conceptual framework\, it addresses opportunities and challenges such as maintaining editorial oversight\, mitigating bias\, and establishing boundaries for AI’s role in journalistic decision-making. For instance\, some Taiwanese organizations enforce strict human verification for AI-generated content and implement safeguards to prevent the misuse of sensitive data. \n\n\n\nThis research further explores how AI adoption influences media brands\, deepens audience understanding\, and reshapes the relationship between technology and journalistic integrity. This ongoing study underscores the need for cautious yet innovative approaches to generative AI\, balancing its transformative potential with ethical accountability. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/yi-chieh-lin-ai-meets-journalism-rethinking-ethics-efficiency-and-integrity-in-taiwanese-newsrooms/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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