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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 Series – Film Screening – Remembering the 1980s: The Documentary Series Tiananmen\, featuring an introduction by Yuhua Wang & Q+A with Rowena Xiaoqing He and Shi Jian
DESCRIPTION:Introduction: Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, Harvard UniversityQ+A Discussion: Rowena Xiaoqing He\, Senior Research Fellow\, University of Texas Austin; author of Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaProgrammer: Sam Maclean\, Communications Manager\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nFollowed by a Zoom Q+A with filmmaker Shi Jian\, co-director of Tiananmen \n\n\n\nThe eight-part documentary series Tiananmen\, about life in Beijing in the 1980s\, was produced with official sanction by a brilliant young team of filmmakers at China Central Television (CCTV). It had a planned airing commencement date of National Day — October 1\, 1989 — to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. However\, production halted in the spring of 1989\, when students calling for democracy and an end to corruption took to the streets in Beijing. Following the violent crackdown on June 4th\, CCTV canceled the series\, concluding that any with the title “Tiananmen”—regardless of its political slant—would be too controversial to air. \n\n\n\nBut co-directors Shi Jian (时间) and Chen Jue (陈爵) decided to finished Tiananmen independently. The series was invited to screen at the Hong Kong Film Festival\, in 1992\, but the Chinese film delegation boycotted it\, and the screening was canceled. Since then\, the full documentary has only screened publicly once (in Chicago\, this past summer). \n\n\n\nThis historic series weaves a tapestry of sociopolitical life whose scope stretches from the survivors of the pre-revolution imperial court to the competitive struggles sparked by the transition to a planned economy\, to liberalization in the shadow of the not-too-distant Cultural Revolution\, to the vibrant artist communities and counterculture movements\, and ultimately\, to what registers as a sense of guarded optimism about China’s 21st century trajectory. \n\n\n\nYuhua Wang (王裕华) is Professor of Government at Harvard University\, whose research focuses on two aspects of the politics of state building. He looks at what contributes to the emergence of effective and durable statehood\, and after an effective state emerges\, how it can be constrained. Professor Wang’s third book\, The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (2022\, Princeton University Press) won the 2023 Lubbert Best Book Award in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review\, Annual Review of Political Science\, British Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Political Studies\, Comparative Politics\, and China Quarterly. \n\n\n\nRowena Xiaoqing He (何曉清) is a China specialist and historian of modern China. She is interested in the nexus of history\, memory\, and power\, and their implications for the relationship between academic freedom and public opinion\, human rights and democratization\, and youth values and nationalism. Her first book\, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China\, was named Top Five Books 2014 by the Asia Society’s China File. The book has been reviewed in the New York Review of Books\, Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, New Statesman\, Spectator\, Christian Science Monitor\, China Journal\, Human Rights Quarterly\, and other international periodicals. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton\, and the National Humanities Center. Dr. He received the Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence for three consecutive years for the Tiananmen courses that she created. She joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019 and received the Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award in 2020 and 2021. In 2023\, she was denied a Hong Kong work visa to return to her position as an Associate Professor of History. Her op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post\, The Nation\, The Guardian\, The Globe and Mail\, and The Wall Street Journal. She was designated among the Top 100 Chinese Public Intellectuals 2016. Born and raised in China\, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. \n\n\n\nThe Fairbank Center’s film screening series explores the largely unseen early history of independent film in China\, beginning in the late 1980s\, aiming to unearth films long-suppressed by Chinese authorities to fill out the narrative of modern film history in the PRC. \n\n\n\nTiananmen’s 8 parts will screen in groups of two throughout Friday\, October 4\, with short breaks: \n\n\n\n12:00 PM: Introduction by Yuhua Wang\, Professor of Government\, followed by Part 1: “The Old City” (56 min.)\, about survivors of the imperial court\, including interviews with the last living imperial eunuch and Puyi’s family members\, and Part 2: “Residences” (51 min.)\, which explores everyday life in courtyard homes. \n\n\n\n2:15 PM: Part 3: “On the Street” (52 min.)\, about various forms of commerce and social activities\, and Part 4: “On Stage” (54 min.)\, a survey of theater actors\, street performers\, and rock musicians. \n\n\n\n4:15 PM: Part 5: “Going Places” (48 min.)\, about intellectual life at universities and inside private enterprises\, and Part 6: “Guest Performers” (48 min.)\, which follows foreigners who live and work in Beijing. \n\n\n\n6:00 PM: Part 7: “On the Way” (50 min.)\, about entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry\, including ad agencies and models\, and Part 8: “Memories” (1 hour)\, a look at China’s history of sociopolitical unrest. \n\n\n\nThe final episode will be followed by a Zoom Q+A with Rowena Xiaoqing He and Tiananmen co-director Shi Jian. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/big-waves-great-earthquakes-film-screening-no-3-remembering-the-1980s-the-documentary-series-tiananmen-featuring-an-introduction-by-yuhua-wang/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:PRC @ 75 Series — Bao Pu — An Insider’s View of Mao’s Reign: The Life of Bao Tong\, Communist Reformer
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bao Pu\, Founder\, New Century Press\, Hong Kong \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Michael Puett\, Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nMao Zedong’s 26-year reign profoundly shaped the People’s Republic of China. And yet while there have been numerous social\, political\, and economic analyses of the PRC\, the driving forces behind Mao’s policies and the inner workings of power politics at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party remain poorly understood due to lack of critical information. \n\n\n\nDrawing from a collection of largely unpublished private letters\, rare publications\, and archival records connected to Bao Tong\, the late Communist Party reformer and political secretary to Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang\, Bao’s son Bao Pu weaves his father’s experiences during Mao’s reign into a single coherent narrative. The analysis traces Bao’s personal arc\, from the young idealist who joined the Party at age of 16 to disillusioned reformer who became one of the Party’s most outspoken critics. Bao Pu uncovers surprising insights into power dynamics at China’s highest levels\, enriched by visuals from Bao Tong’s personal archives and photographs. \n\n\n\nBao Tong was the highest-ranking Chinese official imprisoned over the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square that ended in a bloody crackdown in 1989. Before that\, as Political Secretary of the CCP’s Central Committee’s Politburo Standing Committee\, he had worked on officially sanctioned plans for political reform. He was released from prison in 1997 and died in 2022 at the age of 90. \n\n\n\nBao began his career in the CCP’s Organization Department in July 1949 and remained deeply engaged with the Party’s central operations throughout his tenure. He worked closely with his mentor\, An Ziwen\, the Minister of the Organization Department\, contributing to the drafting of key documents during the turbulent years leading up to Mao’s Cultural Revolution when both them were purged. \n\n\n\nIn 1977\, Bao made a significant comeback by contributing to the drafting of Deng Xiaoping’s speech at the National Science Conference\, a pivotal moment that helped Deng rise to become the supreme leader of China. In the early 1980s\, Bao served as the secretary to Premier Zhao Ziyang and eventually ascended to the role of Political Secretary of the CCP’s Central Committee’s Politburo Standing Committee. By the late 1980s\, Bao was entrusted by General Secretary Zhao Ziyang with preparation for the Political Reform program\, which was approved at the CCP’s 13th Party Congress. \n\n\n\nHowever\, the momentum of these reforms came to a halt following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989\, leading to Bao’s imprisonment as the highest-ranking official to oppose Deng Xiaoping’s handling of the event. In his later years\, Bao continued to be an outspoken critic of the CCP. \n\n\n\nBao Pu is the Publisher and Founder of New Century Press in Hong Kong\, best known for its Chinese-language memoirs and contemporary histories of politics\, titles including Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang and The Origins of the Cultural Revolution\, by Harvard Professor Roderick MacFarquhar. Bao was awarded the Jeri Laber Interntational Freedom to Publish Award in 2010. He is the son of Bao Tong. \n\n\n\nPart of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2024 | October 5 – 12\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/bao-pu-an-insiders-view-of-maos-reign-the-life-of-bao-tong-communist-reformer/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Edward Wong — The Empire Reborn: China’s Expansion and Nationalism Today
DESCRIPTION: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 \n\n\n\nFrom 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 occupation of Xinjiang in the 1950s\, the subject of his new book\, At the Edge of Empire\, and his own reporting as a New York Times journalist on how China maintains control over its frontier regions. And what does the party’s focus on holding on to the territory of the Qing mean for the intentions of China’s leaders toward Taiwan\, the South China Sea and other areas outside of interior China? \n\n\n\nEdward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times and author of At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China. He has reported for the Times for 25 years\, working for 13 of those as a correspondent and bureau chief from China and Iraq. Wong was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and U.C. Berkeley. He was a recent fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington and at the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School. Wong was awarded the Livingston Prize for his reporting on the Iraq War and was on a team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the war. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. He has joint master’s degrees in journalism and international studies from U.C. Berkeley. He received an honorary doctorate this year from Middlebury Language Schools. \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-edward-wong-at-the-edge-of-empire/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Tsai Auditorium (S010)\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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