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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Discussion: Caught by the Tides
DESCRIPTION:Buy tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDirected by Zhangke JiaStarring Tao Zhao\, Zhubin LiCaught by the Tides (风流一代) is an ambitious\, genre-blending film from acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke. Spanning over two decades\, the film interlaces newly shot scenes with archival footage\, fragments from Jia’s earlier films\, and documentary-style material to create a haunting portrait of love\, memory\, and transformation in modern China.The story follows Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao)\, a dancer and club performer in early-2000s Datong\, whose lover\, Guo Bin\, abruptly leaves to seek fortune elsewhere. Her quiet\, persistent search for him unfolds against the sweeping changes of the nation—from mass displacement during the Three Gorges Dam project\, to rapid urbanization\, to the isolating years of the COVID-19 pandemic.Post Screening Panel DiscussionOur distinguished panel will delve into the film’s themes and its broader cultural\, historical\, and cinematic contexts. The discussion will consider how CAUGHT BY THE TIDES reflects on China’s transformation\, the interplay between personal stories and national history\, and the ways cinema can blur the lines between fiction and documentary.Shujen Wang\, Professor of Media Studies\, Emerson College; Research Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard UniversityShujen Wang is the author of Framing Piracy: Globalization and Film Distribution in Greater China (2003)\, and her research spans media globalization\, platformization\, film distribution\, piracy\, and global copyright governance. She has contributed to multiple anthologies and published in leading journals including Cinema Journal\, Film Quarterly\, and International Journal of Cultural Studies. Former president of the Chinese Communication Association\, Dr. Wang has served as a research associate at Harvard’s Fairbank Center since 2002 and sits on the editorial advisory boards of several peer-reviewed journals. Her work has been translated into Portuguese and Chinese\, reflecting her global scholarly influence.Catherine Yeh\, Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature\, Boston UniversityCatherine Yeh’s scholarship examines 19th- and 20th-century Chinese literary\, media\, and visual culture\, with particular attention to the role of entertainment\, literature\, and “marginal” figures in driving modernity. Her books include Shanghai Love: Courtesans\, Intellectuals\, and Entertainment Culture\, 1850–1910 and Performing the ‘Nation’ (co-edited\, 2008). She has written extensively on Shanghai courtesan culture\, the political novel\, the entertainment press\, and the rise of modern Chinese star culture. A recipient of numerous fellowships and research grants\, Professor Yeh’s work illuminates the intersections of art\, politics\, gender\, and urban modernity in China’s cultural transformation.Moderator: Xueping Zhong\, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature\, Chinese Culture\, Film\, Tufts UniversityXueping Zhong is the author of the Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century.Screening at West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA 02465 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-and-discussion-caught-by-the-tides/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T120000
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SUMMARY:The Enduring Legacies of World War II in East Asia:  Reflections 80 Years Later
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Thomas Berger\, Professor of International Relations\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston UniversityMark Caprio\,  Professor Emeritus\, Rikkyo University\, Tokyo; Kim Koo Visiting Professor of Korean Studies\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard UniversityRana Mitter\, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations\, Harvard Kennedy School \n\n\n\nModerator: Christina Davis\, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics\, Department of Government and Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Harvard UniversityThe 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War marks a significant occasion for critical reflections on its legacies in East Asia. China and Taiwan and the two Koreas are still divided and remain major flashpoints with security and political tensions. In the aftermath of WWII\, Japan emerged as a peaceful state\, but its imperial and war legacies have been politically contested. In China\, growing pride and nationalism are driving public discourse about WWII. Leaders in South Korea and Japan\, in the context of China’s rise and the second Trump administration\, have been rethinking their global role and seeking more bilateral cooperation. Our distinguished panel of historians and political scientists will examine how the legacies of WWII still shape the global order among China\, South Korea\, Japan\, and the U.S. today. \n\n\n\nThomas Berger is a Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies\, Division of International Relations at Boston University. .He is the author of Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) and War\, Guilt and World Politics after World War II (Cambridge University Press\, 2012)\, co-author with Ellis Krauss\, Kerstin Luckner\, Hanns Maull and Alexandra Sakaki ofReluctant Warriors\, Conflicted Allies: Germany\, Japan and the International Security Order (Brookings Institution Press\, 2019)  co-author of  as well as co-editor of  Japan in International Politics: Beyond the Reactive State (Lynne Rienner\, 2007). He has published extensively on East Asian and European security\, German and Japanese foreign policy\, and the politics of historical memory. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT.Mark E. Caprio is professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo\, Japan. He is the author of Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea\, 1910—1945 (Seattle: University of Washington Press\, 2009). Additionally\, he has co-edited a number of volumes\, the most recent being a volume titled Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied (London: Palgrave Macmillan\, 2015). He has also contributed academic articles on colonial-era issues and Korea’s wartime and immediate postwar history that include colonial-era collaboration\, Japan-based Korean repatriation\, Korean attitudes toward the trusteeship plan that the Allied powers wished to impose on Korea\, and Japan’s role in the Korean War to academic journals\, as well as to edited volumes. Presently\, he is working on a monograph that considers overseas Korean efforts during the Pacific War years (1941-1945) to gain favor with the Allied forces (the US\, UK\, Nationalist China\, and the Soviet Union). Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books\, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature\, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard\, 2020). His writing on contemporary China has appeared recently in Foreign Affairs\, the Harvard Business Review\, The Spectator\, The Critic\, and The Guardian.  He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world\, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics “Meanwhile in Beijing” is available on BBC Sounds.  He is co-author\, with Sophia Gaston\, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group\, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History\, awarded by the UK Historical Association.  He previously taught at Oxford\, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.Christina L. Davis is the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics in the Department of Government and Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. Her research interests include the politics and foreign policy of Japan\, East Asia\, and the study of international organizations with a focus on trade policy. Her research has been published in leading political science journals. She is the author of Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Princeton University Press 2003)\, and Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press 2012\, winner of the International Law Best Book award of the International Studies Association\, Ohira Memorial Prize\, and co-winner of Chadwick Alger Prize). Her latest book\, Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations\, was released by Princeton University Press in July 2023. Currently\, she is working on several projects on the evolving trade order and economic sanctions. Education: AB in East Asian Studies\, Harvard 1993; Ph.D. in Political Science\, Harvard 2001.Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Harvard University Asia Center\, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs’ Program on US-Japan Relations \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-enduring-legacies-of-world-war-ii-in-east-asia-reflections-80-years-later/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:How Should We Study China? A Discussion with Fairbank Center Faculty
DESCRIPTION:As the Fairbank Center celebrates its 70th Anniversary\, a select panel of Fairbank Center Faculty will discuss how we’ve studied China in the past\, and how we should move forward into the future. Join us for this insightful discussion.More information about our panelists coming soon! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-should-we-study-china-a-discussion-with-fairbank-center-faculty/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Taiwanese Politics and US-China-Taiwan Relations Under Trump 2.0
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: S. Philip Tsu\, National Taiwan UniversityThis talk will examine this following aspects of the US-Taiwan-China relations: 1. How Taiwan society views the US and China\, and the main developments in Taiwan’s party politics/democratic governance since President Lai was inaugurated in 2024; 2. The implications of US foreign policy under Trump 2.0 for the trilateral relations; and 3. The implications of China’s policies toward the US and Taiwan for trilateral relations. \n\n\n\nRegistration link: https://bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42BUHhGC7PoMxj8 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwanese-politics-and-us-china-taiwan-relations-under-trump-2-0/
LOCATION:Room 101\, Boston University Kilachand Center For Life Sciences and Engineering\, 610 Commonwealth Ave\,\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02215\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T122000
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SUMMARY:Is Authoritarian Constitutionalism an Oxymoron?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mark Tushnet\, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law\, Emeritus\, Harvard Law School; Co-editor\, Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism \n\n\n\nProfessor Tushnet\, who graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall\, specializes in constitutional law and theory\, including comparative constitutional law. His research includes studies of constitutional review in the United States and around the world\, and the creation of other “institutions for protecting constitutional democracy.” He also writes in the area of legal and particularly constitutional history\, with works on the development of civil rights law in the United States and a history of the Supreme Court in the 1930s. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\nPlease note: In past years\, most EALS talks were in Morgan Courtroom (Austin 308)\, but due to the construction project currently underway next to Austin Hall\, we will hold most EALS talks in Wasserstein Hall this year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/is-authoritarian-constitutionalism-an-oxymoron/
LOCATION:WCC 3007\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T140000
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Travelogue: A Dialogue with Author Yang Shuang-zi and Translator Lin King
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:David Der-Wei Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard UniversityFu Yun\, Harvard Graduate School of DesignWendy Wang\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-travelogue-a-dialogue-with-author-yang-shuang-zi-and-translator-lin-king/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T160000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Zhuming Yao —The Early Chinese Lyric “I”: Between Poetics and Hermeneutics
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhuming Yao\, Assistant Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature at Boston University \n\n\n\nMany poems in the Shijing 詩經 feature a lyric “I\,” a first-person voice speaking about intense emotions. Yet\, who those “Is” are has never been clear. After two millennia of commentarial writings\, we are no more certain than the first critics of the Shi about any of the “Is.” On the contrary\, a modern reader is confronted with a range of different readings\, each plausible on its own but none more reasoned than the others. This hermeneutical impasse\, I show in this talk\, results from an interpretive practice that inscribes meaning to\, rather than recovers the referent of\, the lyric “I.” And the inscription is made not through any serious historical or philological investigation but through free\, sometimes idiosyncratic\, imagination of the poetics of the Shi—how the poems are composed\, in what mode of speech\, and with what rhetorical devices. Such poetic claims disguised as hermeneutical solutions have roots in the “I” as a deictic subject position. It helps to generate a group of “type voices” that are inhabitable (and were indeed inhabited) by readers and writers alike. In the broader history of early lyric poetry\, these “type voices” were what became “lyric poets.” But no lyric poet in this early phase\, I also show\, managed to escape completely being a common type. \n\n\n\nZhuming Yao is Assistant Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature at Boston University. He works on classical Chinese literature of the early and early imperial eras\, with a particular interest in poetics\, philology\, and manuscript culture. Zhuming’s current book project examines the literary significance of the oral word in early Chinese writings\, offering an account of how writing valorizes the oral form and\, in turn\, appropriates its discursive appeal. Before joining BU\, Zhuming taught at Swarthmore College (2023-24). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-zhuming-yao-the-early-chinese-lyric-i-between-poetics-and-hermeneutics/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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