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SUMMARY:When Men Marry into Their Wives’ Families: Changing Patriarchy\, Intimacy\, and Masculinity in Everyday Family Life of Post-Reform China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Guanli Zhang\, Associate Professor\, School of Sociology\, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Susan Greenhalgh\, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society Emerita\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/when-men-marry-into-the-wifes-family-patriarchy-intimacy-and-masculinity-in-everyday-family-life-of-post-reform-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T160000
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Eyck Freymann — Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eyck Freymann\, Hoover Fellow\, Stanford University \n\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT’S START TIME HAS CHANGED TO 4PMTaiwan is where the uneasy peace between the United States and China will be tested–and possibly broken. Beijing believes that “reunification” is inevitable. American military strength has preserved peace and stability for decades\, but its advantages are eroding. Beijing has found critical gaps in U.S. strategy and is working to squeeze\, isolate\, and coerce Taiwan into submission without firing a shot. If deterrence fails\, the consequences of a Taiwan crisis would be catastrophic–plunging the global economy into chaos\, shattering U.S. alliances\, and allowing China to dominate the region and reshape the world order. \n\n\n\nIn Defending Taiwan\, Eyck Freymann presents the first integrated strategy to deter war with China and preserve an honorable peace. Drawing on untranslated Chinese sources\, cutting-edge military and economic analysis\, and deep historical research\, Freymann argues that Washington’s deterrence strategy must extend beyond conventional military power and familiar threats of mutually assured destruction. America must work with allies to develop a bold new vision of technological and economic statecraft–and a plan to secure its interests if deterrence fails. Freymann examines China’s full range of strategic options. The United States can deter them all. But to do so\, it must integrate its military strength\, economic leverage\, technological leadership\, and diplomatic influence into a single\, coherent plan to prevent war. \n\n\n\nEyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University\, where he directs the Allied Coordination Working Group. He is also a Non-Resident Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy\, the Institute of Geoeconomics in Tokyo\, and the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. He works on strategies to preserve peace and protect U.S. interests and values in an era of systemic competition with China. He is the author of several books\, including Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China (Oxford\, 2026)\, The Arsenal of Democracy: Technology\, Industry\, and Deterrence in an Age of Hard Choices (Hoover\, 2025)\, and One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard\, 2021).  \n\n\n\nThis event is part of Harvard Worldwide Week \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-studies-workshop-featuring-eyck-freymann-defending-taiwan-a-strategy-to-prevent-war-with-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T131500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Maria Adele Carrai — Can China Remake Global Digital Norms and Governance?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai\, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations of China\, University of Oxford \n\n\n\n***PLEASE NOTE THIS CRITICAL ISSUES TALK TAKES PLACE ON A THURSDAY\, INSTEAD OF OUR USUAL WEDNESDAY TIME SLOT*** \n\n\n\nDrawing on the forthcoming book\, China’s Normative Power in Cyberspace\, this talk examines China’s growing role in shaping the norms\, institutions\, technologies\, and governance practices underpinning the global digital order. Moving beyond the familiar framing of “digital authoritarianism\,” it explores how Chinese actors seek to influence debates over cyber sovereignty\, data governance\, artificial intelligence\, digital infrastructure\, and the role of the state in cyberspace. The talk asks a broader question: to what extent can China actually reshape global digital norms and governance? It distinguishes between China’s capacity to shape international discourse\, build coalitions\, promote institutional and technical practices\, and generate norms that gain acceptance beyond China itself. In doing so\, it considers both the reach and the limits of Chinese normative power and what China’s digital engagement reveals about the changing nature of international order. \n\n\n\nMaria Adele Carrai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) at the University of Oxford\, and a Fellow of St Cross College. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai and taught as an adjunct at NYU School of Law. She has been an Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center since 2021 and an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute since 2019. \n\n\n\nHer research examines the history of international law in East Asia and investigates how China’s rise as a global power shapes norms and reconfigures the international order\, with particular interests in sovereignty\, extraterritoriality\, and digital governance. She is the author of Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept since 1840 (Cambridge University Press\, 2019) and the forthcoming China’s Normative Power in Cyberspace (Routledge\, 2026). She co-edited The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US–China Relations (Harvard University Press\, 2022) and The Cambridge History of International Law in Asia (Cambridge University Press\, 2026). Her work has appeared in leading journals in international law and international relations. \n\n\n\nShe received her PhD from the University of Hong Kong\, was awarded a three-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at KU Leuven\, and was a fellow at the Italian Academy at Columbia University\, the Princeton–Harvard China and the World Program\, the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute\, and a Global Houser Fellow at NYU School of Law. \n\n\n\n \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-maria-adele-carrai-can-china-remake-global-digital-norms-and-governance/
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:20261015T170000
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SUMMARY:Mapping Global China: Data\, Maps\, and Stories of China’s Global Presence
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Adele Carrai\, Associate Professor\, University of OxfordDavide Zoppolato\, Hong Yen Chang Center Fellow\, Columbia Law School  \n\n\n\nModerator: Iain Johnston\, Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Research Professor of China in World Affairs\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nRegistration appreciated for planning purposes.  \n\n\n\nThis presentation introduces Mapping Global China\, an open-access research initiative that maps and analyzes China’s expanding global presence.  \n\n\n\nBringing together original datasets\, interactive maps\, and narrative storytelling\, the project examines how Chinese capital\, institutions\, infrastructure\, and other forms of engagement are reshaping places around the world. The conversation will present some of the project’s new tools and findings and reflect on what mapping can reveal about the changing geography of Global China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/mapping-global-china-data-maps-and-stories-of-chinas-global-presence/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T130000
DTSTAMP:20261013T142453Z
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SUMMARY:近代中国革命的思想起源： 晚清一代革命者的志士精神 (The Ideological Origins of Modern Chinese Revolution: The Noble Spirit of the late Qing Revolutionaries)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xu Jilin\, Professor\, Department of History\, East China Normal UniversityChair/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThis talk will be conducted in Chinese. \n\n\n\n清末世纪之交，在读书人中间，分化出一批激进的革命者。这些边缘知识人抛弃了儒家的意识形态，思想深处的虚无主义、破坏主义，与无政府主义的激进乌托邦与反满的族群意识结合，再加上唯意志论的催化，形成了视死如归的志士精神。20世纪中国的思想源头，大半渊源于晚清这一代革命者的志士精神。 \n\n\n\n华东师范大学特聘教授、历史系博士生导师、中国现代思想文化研究所副所长，兼任中国史学会理事、香港《二十一世纪》杂志编委，主要从事二十世纪中国思想史与知识分子的研究以及当代中国文化研究。主要著作有：《中国知识分子十论》（复旦大学出版社，2003）、《启蒙如何起死回生》（北京大学出版社，2011）、《当代中国的启蒙与反启蒙》（社会科学文献出版社，2011）、《家国天下：现代中国的个人、国家与世界认同》（上海人民出版社，2017）、《安身立命：大时代中的知识人》（上海人民出版社，2019）、《脉动中国：许纪霖的50堂传统文化课》（上海三联书店，2021）、《一个民族的精神史》（香港三联书店，2019）、《中国时刻？从富强到文明崛起的历史逻辑》（香港城市大学出版社2019）、《左冲右突：现代政治激流中的中国知识分子》（香港城市大学出版社2021）、Rethinking China’s Rise: A Liberal Critique (Cambridge University Press\, 2018)、《普遍的価値を求める: 中国現代思想の新潮流 (叢書・ウニベルシタス 1121， 日本法政大学出版局2020) 。2004年被广东《南方人物周刊》评为50位中国公共知识分子之一，2025年被广东《南风窗》杂志评为年度学者。《中国知识分子十论》一书2005年获得首届中国国家图书馆文津图书奖，《中国时刻？》一书被香港《亚洲周刊》评为2019年中文十大好书之首。 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/%e8%bf%91%e4%bb%a3%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e9%9d%a9%e5%91%bd%e7%9a%84%e6%80%9d%e6%83%b3%e8%b5%b7%e6%ba%90%ef%bc%9a-%e6%99%9a%e6%b8%85%e4%b8%80%e4%bb%a3%e9%9d%a9%e5%91%bd%e8%80%85%e7%9a%84%e5%bf%97%e5%a3%ab/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T131500
DTSTAMP:20261008T182710Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Andrew Erickson — Are Rampant Removals of Admirals and Generals Harming or Helping China’s Naval & Military Advancement?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew S. Erickson\, Visiting Scholar\, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor\, Founding Member\, and Former Research Director\, China Maritime Studies Institute\, US Naval War College \n\n\n\nAre rampant removals of top officials from China’s Navy and other services\, as well as the defense industry supporting them\, decapitating its military advancement? Or do the benefits somehow exceed the costs\, at least in the view of PRC paramount leader Xi Jinping? What is the relationship between leadership turnover\, organizational disruption\, and China’s naval and broader military modernization? This lecture probes an apparent paradox: even as unprecedented purges remove senior officers and defense-industry leaders\, China’s military—and particularly its navy—continues to expand and improve at a formidable pace. Employing a “forest and trees” metaphor\, this talk argues that analysts risk mistaking extraordinary personnel turbulence for institutional paralysis. Xi’s removals undoubtedly impose costs\, disrupt leadership networks\, and expose persistent corruption and political dysfunction\, but they coexist with—and may in some respects even facilitate—continued capability development. \n\n\n\nChina possesses unusually deep pools of personnel\, industrial capacity\, technology\, infrastructure\, and state-directed resources\, while the system under Xi prioritizes political reliability alongside operational competence and rapidly replaces leaders deemed corrupt\, disloyal\, or ineffective. The resulting “forest” continues to flourish: China’s military is fielding increasingly sophisticated platforms and munitions\, expanding production capacity\, improving training realism and joint integration\, and sustaining an intensifying operational tempo. Nowhere are these trends more visible and consequential than in the maritime domain and around Taiwan\, where increasingly complex exercises rehearse coercion\, blockade\, precision-strike\, and invasion-related capabilities. Pervasive corruption and repeated removals represent important vulnerabilities\, but they should not be assumed to derail China’s military buildup. Individual trees are falling at a remarkable rate\, but the larger armed forces forest grows rapidly regardless. \n\n\n\nDisclaimer: The views expressed by Dr. Erickson are his alone\, based solely on open sources and offered from an independent academic perspective. They do not represent the policies or estimates of the U.S. Navy or any other organization of the U.S. government\, or of any other organization with which he is affiliated. Dr. Erickson is presenting in his personal capacity\, not as an employee of the U.S. government. \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-andrew-erickson-are-rampant-removals-of-admirals-and-generals-harming-or-helping-chinas-naval-military-advancement/
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:20261021T122000
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SUMMARY:Beyond Tariffs and Subsidies: Toward a New Framework for U.S. Industrial Policy
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Y.S. Lee\,  West Virginia University College of Law \n\n\n\nThe United States has returned to tariffs and subsidies with renewed force\, seeking to rebuild domestic manufacturing\, promote strategic industries\, and counter geopolitical rivals such as China. This resurgence of industrial policy marks a sharp departure from the rule-based international trade order under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization since 1947. Yet despite costly tariffs and hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies\, the economic results remain uncertain\, while concerns over inflation\, trade conflict\, and market distortion continue to grow. Current debates in economics\, politics\, and trade law have focused largely on whether tariffs and subsidies are desirable. Far less attention has been paid to a more fundamental question: whether the United States possesses the legal and institutional capacity to implement industrial policy effectively. \n\n\n\nThis Article addresses that question through the General Theory of Law and Development\, a framework that examines how law\, broader legal frameworks\, and institutions shape economic and social transformation. It argues that contemporary U.S. industrial policy is structurally inadequate to achieve its stated objectives due to serious legal and institutional deficiencies undermining effective implementation\, coordination\, and policy coherence. These deficiencies also generate significant tensions with both domestic and international legal obligations\, as illustrated by the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Learning Resources\, Inc. v. Trump. The Article develops foundational elements of a new legal and institutional framework for industrial promotion grounded in international collaboration\, economic rationality\, and institutional coordination. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. Please register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/beyond-tariffs-and-subsidies-toward-a-new-framework-for-u-s-industrial-policy/
LOCATION:WCC 3016\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T173000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Jazmin Sierra — Going Out to Catch Up: China and the Globalization of State-Led Development
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jazmin Sierra\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow\, University of Notre DameChina’s rise is often told as a story of opening to foreign capital and becoming the workshop of the world. But opening up also set in motion a less familiar transformation: China began to globalize state-led development itself. Rather than confining industrial policy to investments within its national borders\, the Chinese state increasingly encouraged domestic firms to invest\, produce\, and acquire companies abroad in pursuit of development at home. \n\n\n\nGlobalized State-led Development: How States Support Firms at Home and Abroad (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) traces the ideational and institutional foundations of this outward turn. Through experimentation and learning\, Chinese policymakers came to treat the internationalization of national firms as an instrument of structural transformation and repurposed state control over finance to support it. China unleashed capital abroad not only to secure commodities and expand geopolitical influence\, but also to gain market access in the United States and Europe and accelerate technological catch-up. Foreign acquisitions were especially important because they gave Chinese firms access to advanced technologies\, skills\, brands\, and distribution networks that were difficult to develop at home. \n\n\n\nComparing China and Brazil\, the book situates China’s strategy within a common developmental logic among late developers\, while showing how its distinctive legacies of state planning and authoritarian rule shaped the form and scale that strategy took. The comparison shows that late developers have changed the strategies for\, but not renounced the ambition of\, the structural transformation of their economies. In doing so\, the book brings the Chinese case into broader comparative debates about industrial policy\, state capacity\, and the changing nature of state-led development in an open global economy. \n\n\n\nJazmin Sierra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her book\, Globalized State-led Development: How States Support Firms at Home and Abroad\, is published by Cambridge University Press. Her research has appeared in Comparative Political Studies\, International Studies Quarterly\, Security Studies\, and Estudios Sociológicos\, and has been supported by the Social Science Research Council and the Smith Richardson Foundation.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-jazmin-sierra/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261022T173000
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xu Guoqi — What do we mean by “China?”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Xu Guoqi\, David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History; Founding Director\, Institute of Transnational History of China\, University of Hong Kong \n\n\n\nProfessor Xu Guoqi was born in China and taught both in Asia and the USA before joining the University of Hong Kong’s History Department. He writes and has published widely in both Chinese and English on various topics. \n\n\n\nProfessor Xu is a leading authority of transnational and shared history of modern China and the world. His research topics include First World War Studies\, roles of Sports in China and the world\, history of US-China relations\, the idea of China\, among many others. He has served as a visiting professor at many prestigious institutions such as Harvard University\, Yale University\, Cambridge University\, the University of Melbourne\, and King’s College London. He has received many awards such as the Shigemutsu Fellowship for scholarship in global cultural affairs from the Global Culture Center of the Japan Society of Boston and the best book award from the International Society of Olympic Historians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-xu-guoqi/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261026T180000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Huan Jin — Modularity and Vernacular Knowledge: The Career of "Tao" 套\, 11th–17th Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Huan Jin\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \n\n\n\nEmerging at the turn of the eleventh century out of contact with non-Han people\, “tao” 套 (set/module) shows the productiveness of cross-cultural interactions. Rooted in empirical knowledge and everyday life that is not dominated by aristocrats and cultural elites\, it is a category that introduces a way of thinking and doing that achieves efficiency without sacrificing functionality. Instead of concreteness and stability\, “tao” is about malleability and adaptability. By the late Ming\, commercial publishers further extended the flexibility of “tao” to organize knowledge for everyday needs in law\, medicine\, and communication. At the same time\, “tao” began to carry negative connotations in criticism of literary and artistic creation\, reflecting a desire for sincerity and originality that went beyond mere practicality\, together with an underlying anxiety that convenience itself had gone too far. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-huan-jin-modularity-and-vernacular-knowledge-the-career-of-tao-%e5%a5%97-11th-17th-centuries/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar
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SUMMARY:Urban China Lecture Series featuring Trang X. Ta — Scenes of Affliction and Cruel Circumstances in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Trang X. Ta\, University of Maryland Baltimore County \n\n\n\nIn most instances there is a lone\, tragic-looking figure with head bowed before an accompanying sign making a silent public appeal. However\, to stand out in the midst of urban activity\, narration has increasingly included accouterments—boomboxes\, microphones\, printed posters\, photographs\, and a moving repertoire that weaves storytelling\, emotional appeal\, social commentary\, and entertainment such as heartfelt singing and dancing—to draw the attention of passersby or even a small audience. These scenes of affliction in the Chinese public sphere feature “cruel circumstances” to gain financial assistance and claim social recognition. But this form of soliciting aid is fraught with suspicion and quickly dismissed as ploys to manipulate sentiment. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork primarily in Beijing and Guangzhou\, this talk explores the conditions of affliction\, suffering as resource\, the ethics of veracity\, and the compositional labor of communicating “cruel circumstances” to an anonymous public.     \n\n\n\nTrang X. Ta is a cultural and medical anthropologist. This book represents her ongoing interests in urban social infrastructures and political ecologies\, moral economies\, unacknowledged labor\, and creative resilience. Her current research project studies how the elderly and working poor in Hong Kong engage in waste reclamation as a livelihood strategy. She currently teaches at the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County. \n\n\n\nZoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/urban-china-lecture-series-featuring-treng-ta/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Urban China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261030T113000
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SUMMARY:Trans-generational Transmission of War Memories in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: ISHII Yumi\, Associate Professor\, Tohoku University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/trans-generational-transmission-of-war-memories-in-china/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/trans-generational-transmission-of-war-memories-in-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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