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SUMMARY:Sigrid Schmalzer — The Connected Worlds of Dazhai and the Whole Earth Catalog: Capitalism\, Colonialism\, and Alternative Technology Movements
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer\, University of Massachusetts Amherst \n\n\n\nSigrid Schmalzer is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on social\, cultural\, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China and also includes the history of science activism transnationally. She is the author of The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China (Chicago 2008)\, Red Revolution\, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (Chicago 2016)\, and numerous other publications. She is also the editor of the UMass Press book series Activist Studies of Science and Technology and serves as Co-President of the Massachusetts Society of Professors (the union of faculty and librarians at UMass Amherst). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sigrid-schmalzer-the-connected-worlds-of-dazhai-and-the-whole-earth-catalog-capitalism-colonialism-and-alternative-technology-movements/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Robert Campany — Traditions of Exemplary Transcendents (Liexian zhuan 列仙傳): A Reading
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Campany\, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities; Professor of Asian Studies\, Vanderbilt University \n\n\n\nLiexian zhuan\, plausibly attributed to the late Western Han scholiast and court official Liu Xiang 劉向 (79-8 BCE)\, is the earliest extant collection of anecdotes about individuals deemed to have transcended the limits of the human condition to become beings known as xian 仙. In this talk I will explore what it can tell us about the origins and early history of the quest for transcendence. What range of methods does it portray adepts as using to gain extraordinary longevity and other transhuman capabilities? How do its entries depict practitioners’ relations with other people\, with local communities\, and with the landscape? What does the text reveal about the sometimes strange workings of the hagiographic process? (For example\, why do the “wandering women” 游女 mentioned in the Shijing 詩經 poem “The Han is Broad” [“Han guang 漢廣\,” Mao #9] number among its transcendents?) To what extent does the text hold surprises when read against Ge Hong’s 葛洪 similar but much larger compilation made three centuries later? \n\n\n\nRob Campany is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities and Professor of Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University. He researches the history of religion in China from the late Warring States to the Tang. His most recent books include The Chinese Dreamscape\, 300 BCE – 800 CE (Harvard University Asia Center Publications\, 2020)\, winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize and the Médaille Stanislas Julien\, and Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China\, 300 BCE – 800 CE (Harvard University Asia Center Publications\, 2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-robert-campany-traditions-of-exemplary-transcendents-liexian-zhuan-%e5%88%97%e4%bb%99%e5%82%b3-a-reading/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy - Youth (Spring) Qingchun
DESCRIPTION:More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002)\, documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees\, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers struggling with the vagaries and pressures of a free capitalist market. Between 2014 and 2019\, Wang Bing and his crew shot around 2\,600 hours of footage in the garment-making township of Zhili\, near Shanghai\, with hundreds of thousands of seasonal laborers from all over the country sewing children’s clothes in some 18\,000 workshops. The three installments of Youth—Spring\, Hard Times and Homecoming—premiered in competition at the Cannes\, Locarno and Venice film festivals\, respectively. Taken together\, this documentary trilogy not only provides a nuanced\, empathetic and critical look at China’s fashion industry\, but could also inspire in its audiences alternative experiences of time\, space and the material fabric of our lives.  \n\n\n\nYouth (Spring) QingchunThe first in Wang Bing’s opus centered on young migrant laborers in Zhili employs his trademark long takes and fixed camera setups\, contrasting routine days of sewing\, stitching and scissoring with bustling street scenes and after-hours sequences set in the workers’ cramped living quarters\, chancing upon dramas that inevitably emerge from such a repetitive\, cloistered and threadbare existence. While Zhili’s privatized structure and incentive-based production model allows for certain advantages over the kind of centrally governed factories seen in earlier Wang films like West of the Tracks (2002)\, it also leaves employees at the mercy of predatory managers\, a situation the director depicts as an endless tug-of-war for better pay. With textbook rigor\, Wang captures a new economic reality that\, for all it promises\, has only fostered a new form of exploitation. – Jordan Cronk \n\n\n\nDirected by Wang Bing \n\n\n\nFrance/Hong Kong/Luxembourg/Netherlands 2023\, DCP\, color\, 215 min. Mandarin with English subtitles \n\n\n\nGeneral Admission Tickets $10\, $8 Non-Harvard student\, seniors\, Harvard faculty and staff. Harvard students admitted free to regularly priced shows. \n\n\n\nSpecial event tickets (for in-person appearances) $15 – $20. \n\n\n\nTickets go on sale 30 minutes prior to show time at the box office and are also available in advance on the HFA website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-wang-bings-youth-trilogy-youth-spring-qingchun/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:2025 Graduating Student Presentations
DESCRIPTION:From exploring 8th Century art to examining contemporary geopolitics\, Harvard’s Class of 2025 is full of individuals engaged in path-breaking research in Chinese Studies. We’ve selected a few outstanding projects to provide you a glimpse of the bold ideas being put forward by our graduating students.  Come hear lightning talks from the following students: \n\n\n\nJoyce Chen – China’s Socialization in the UN Security Council: The Case of the North Korean Nuclear Issue \n\n\n\nBulelani Jili – Leasing Out Sovereignty: The Proliferation of Chinese Surveillance Technologies in Africa \n\n\n\nChao Lang – From Integration to Isolation: Xinjiang Cotton and Commercial Networks (1759–1890) \n\n\n\nAlex Lee – Anthropomorphic Animals in Chinese Animated Film from the Great Leap Forward \n\n\n\nIsabel McWilliams – In Situ Actualization: The Hyper-bodied Bodhisattva in Eighth Century East Asian Art \n\n\n\nShuhuai Zhang – Zenith of a Dying Breed: The Chinese Communist Party’s Official Propagandists in the Early Reform Years (1976-1994) \n\n\n\nVeronica Peterson – Taking Care: Home Cooking and Cooking for Community in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century Chinese Diaspora \n\n\n\nLaurence Li – “Foreign Adversary” in U.S. Federal Courts \n\n\n\nCosette Wu – The Effect of the 2017 Techno-Geopolitical Shock on the US-Taiwan Innovation Relationship \n\n\n\n A reception will follow for all graduates after the presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025-graduating-student-presentations/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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