October 2018 Newsletter

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Welcome to our New Affiliates

Welcome to our new affiliates for the 2018-2019 academic year! This year we are pleased to welcome  opens in a new windowfour Postdoctoral Fellows,  opens in a new windowfourteen Visiting Scholars,  opens in a new windowten Graduate Student Associates, and  opens in a new windownine new Associates in Research to our community of China scholars.

• opens in a new windowArunabh Ghosh (Assistant Professor of History), researching Trans-Himalayan Science in Mid-Twentieth-Century China and India.
• opens in a new windowSakura Christmas (Assistant Professor, History Department and Asian Studies Program, Bowdoin College; Fairbank Center Alumna), researching Asian nomadic borderlands.
• opens in a new windowMiya Qiong Xie (Assistant Professor of Chinese, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Dartmouth College; Fairbank Center Alumna), researching Manchurian literature.

Publications

Announcing two new publications from the Harvard University Asia Center Publications Program:
opens in a new windowShen Gua’s Empiricism
Ya Zuo presents the first book-length study of Shen Gua (1031–1095) in English.

opens in a new windowIn the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200–1600
Jinping Wang’s monograph explores the aftermath of the Mongol conquest of North China.

From our Podcast

Catch up with recordings of events that you may have missed:

• Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University, presents the Fairbank Center’s 2018 Annual Reischauer Lectures

1. opens in a new windowPart 1: Flavors of Truth and Claims of Authority
   Discussant: Michael Puett
2. opens in a new windowPart 2: How can one say the Unprecedented in Pre-Modern East Asia: Su Dongpo and Ink Bamboo
   Discussant: Stephen H. West

• opens in a new windowRecent Developments in Xinjiang, with Adrian Zenz

Adrian Zenz, Lecturer in social research methods, European School of Culture & Theology, speaks about his research on China’s political re-education campaign in Xinjiang. Moderated by Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard University.

• opens in a new windowThe End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies Panel Discussion

Fabio Lanza, Ellen Schrecker, Andrew Gordon, Joseph Esherick, Sugata Bose, Lien-Hang Nguyen, and Bruce Cumings discuss Fabio Lanza’s new book on student activism in the Global Sixites. Moderated by Karen Thornber, Harvard University Asia Center, organized by Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University

• opens in a new windowStrongman Politics in the 21st Century

This panel discussion examines the role of politically-strong male leaders in authoritarian countries in a comparative context. Panelists: Elsa Clavé, Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Joseph Fewsmith, and Valerie Sperling, moderated by Thomas Vallely.

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From our Blog

opens in a new windowUyghur Poetry in Translation: Perhat Tursun’s “Elegy”: Joshua L. Freeman, Ph.D. Candidate in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University, introduces and presents a translation of Uyghur poet Perhat Tursun’s “Elegy.”

opens in a new windowRecognizing Taiwan’s Sovereignty? The U.S. Response to China’s Diplomatic Pressure: Steven Goldstein, Fairbank Center Associate, examines Taiwan’s reaction to increasing diplomatic pressure from Beijing, and the United States’ response to the decline in states who recognize the Republic of China’s sovereignty.

In the Media

opens in a new windowChina finally admits it is building a new archipelago of concentration camps. Will the world respond?: The Washington Post Editorial Board discusses our recent event on Xinjiang with Adrian Zenz, moderated by Mark C. Elliott.