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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Natasha Heller — What is Ecology for a Chan Monk?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Natasha Heller\, University of VirginiaThe “ecocritical turn” has reached premodern studies and Asian humanities\, but both contexts present significant challenges. Although the nonhuman world and the experience of it would have been different in meaningful ways a millennium ago\, can we understand “green readings” of Buddhist literature? Is it possible to recover “environmental thought” from the poetry of Chan monks? To think through these questions\, I will consider four sets of poems authored by Zhongfeng Mingben 中峰明本 (1263–1323) about living in different places: on a boat\, in the mountains\, on the water\, and in the city. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-natasha-heller-what-is-ecology-for-a-chan-monk/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Dongsheng Zang — China's Great Leap Forward to AI Supremacy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dongsheng Zang\, Professor of Law\, University of Washington School of LawModerator: Feng Zhu\, MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business SchoolThe talk aims to provide a framework in understanding China’s industrial policy on artificial intelligence (AI) in the last decade\, 2016-2026. It examines the AI policy from the perspective of state-industry relationship. For this purpose\, it divides the decade into three stages of development: (1) the harmonious period\, 2016-2018; (2) the crackdown\, 2018-2022; and (3) the DeepSeek paradox\, 2022-2026. It explains the success\, to some degree\, China has in AI development; but also reveals the underlying dilemma that China under Xi Jinping is facing in this crucial area of technology in the competition with the United States.   \n\n\n\nProfessor Zang joined the UW faculty full-time in 2006\, after serving as a visiting professor in 2005-06. His academic interests include international trade law\, and comparative study of Chinese law\, with a focus on the role of law and state in response to social crises in the social transformation in China. He holds an S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School\, in addition to his LL.M. from Renmin University (Beijing) and LL.B. from Beijing College of Economics. His doctoral dissertation\, One-way Transparency: The Establishment of the Rule-based International Trade Order and the Predicament of Its Jurisprudence\, was awarded the 2004 Yong K. Kim ’95 prize. He was a research fellow at the East Asia Legal Studies at Harvard Law School during the 2004-05 academic year. \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-dongsheng-zang/
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:20260409T122000
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SUMMARY:What Would a Rational and Effective U.S.-China Trade Policy Look Like? Is One Still Possible?
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Katherine Tai\, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025) \n\n\n\nAmbassador Katherine C. Tai served as the 19th United States Trade Representative. As a member of President Biden’s Cabinet\, Ambassador Tai was the principal trade advisor\, negotiator\, and spokesperson on U.S. trade policy from March 2021 to January 2025. Prior to her unanimous Senate confirmation\, Ambassador Tai spent nearly 2 decades in public service focusing on crafting\, monitoring\, and enforcing U.S. and international trade laws. She previously served the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives as Chief Trade Counsel and Trade Subcommittee Staff Director. She is also an experienced WTO litigator. From 2007 to 2014\, Ambassador Tai developed and tried cases for USTR\, eventually becoming the agency’s Chief Counsel for China Trade Enforcement. Ambassador Tai graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. She began her career practicing law in the private sector\, clerking for federal judges in the Districts of Columbia and Maryland\, and teaching English in Guangzhou\, China. \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/what-would-a-rational-and-effective-u-s-china-trade-policy-look-like-is-one-still-possible/
LOCATION:WCC B015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Discovering History in China: Remembering Paul Cohen
DESCRIPTION:We hope you will join us for a symposium and celebration of the late Paul Cohen\, a longtime Fairbank Center Associate and the Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of History and Asian Studies Emeritus at Wellesley College. Opening Remarks: Michael Szonyi\, Former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nPanel Discussion: How Paul Cohen Changed HistoryModerator: Michael Szonyi\, Former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nPanelists:Cynthia Brokaw\, Chen Family Professor of China Studies\, Brown UniversityAngela Ki Che Leung\, Professor Emerita\, Hong Kong University (video)Ellen Widmer\, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, emerita\, Wellesley College; Center Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesGuoqi Xu\, David Chang Professor of Chinese history\, University of Hong Kong (video)Joseph Esherick\, Professor of History\, emeritus\, University of California San DiegoRemembrancesModerators:Waiyee Li\, 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard UniversityEllen Widmer\, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, emerita\, Wellesley College; Center Associate\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Andrew Shennan\, Professor of History and Provost emeritus\, Wellesley CollegeC. Patterson Giersch\, Edith Stix Wasserman Professor in Asian Studies and Professor of History\, Wellesley CollegeJoanna Handlin Smith\, Editor emerita\, Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesCatherine Yeh\, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature\, Boston UniversityDailan Xu\, Class of 2027\, Harvard CollegeAudience Remembrances \n\n\n\nSpecial Remarks:Elizabeth Sinn\, Honorary Professor\, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Hong KongCLOSING REMARKSWaiyee Li\, colleagueEllen Widmer\, colleagueReception to follow  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/discovering-history-in-china-remembering-paul-cohen/
LOCATION:Lower Level Conference Center Rooms 4-5\, Gutman Library\, 6 Appian Way\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Li Xiaojiang: Feminism and the Question of Affect in Contemporary China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shih-Diing Liu\, 2024-25 Visiting Scholar; Professor of Communication and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of MacauModerator: David Der-wei Wang\, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nShih-Diing Liu (刘世鼎) is Professor of Communication and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, University of Macau. Liu’s research focuses on exploring the emotional dynamics of politics\, the formation of popular identity\, the expressive and embodied forms of political practices\, and the psychology of nationalism in contemporary China. His books include The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China (SUNY Press\, 2019) and Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China (Edinburgh University Press\, 2024\, with Wei Shi). Continuing with a focus on emotion from the Affective Spaces project\, his current research explores the intersection of affect and gender in contemporary China. Arguing that Chinese gender has increasingly become an archive of feelings marked by ambivalence toward authorities\, this book project uncovers the power of emotion in negotiating the gendered order. Meanwhile\, he is also working on a book project that explores the emotional capabilities of Artificial Intelligence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/li-xiaojiang-feminism-and-the-question-of-affect-in-contemporary-china/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K450\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T120000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Ian Johnson — Reclaiming Historical Memory and the Struggle for China’s Future
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ian Johnson\, Author; Founder\, China Unofficial Archives \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Former Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIan Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, author\, teacher\, and researcher. He has been engaged with China for the past thirty-five years\, writing on the country’s search for faith and values\, as well as efforts to control dissent and history. \n\n\n\nHe was a 2024-2025 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin\, where he is writing a new book on China. He also contributes to The New York Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, and regularly speaks in the media or to public audiences about China.  \n\n\n\nHe is the founder of the China Unofficial Archives\, an online repository of hundreds of samizdat magazines\, books\, and underground films. This website is a registered (501c3) non-profit that uploads and annotates new movies and publications daily. \n\n\n\nHis latest book\, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future\, describes how some of China’s best-known writers\, filmmakers\, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.  \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-ian-jonshon-reclaiming-historical-memory-and-the-struggle-for-chinas-future/
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:20260416T120000
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SUMMARY:Taiwan Workshop featuring Thung-Hong Lin — Stormy Seas: Taiwan’s Democratic Resilience under China’s Sharp Power
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Thung-Hong Lin\, Research Fellow\, Institute of Sociology\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan.  \n\n\n\nHow can a small democracy resist the influence of a powerful authoritarian neighbor? Taiwan is often praised for its successful economic development and peaceful democratic transition\, yet it faces substantial challenges from both internal political divisions and external geopolitical pressures. Taiwan’s political landscape is shaped by several major cleavages\, including national identity\, economic inequality and class conflict\, and generational and cultural differences. The greatest challenge to Taiwan’s democracy comes from China\, which has sought to exploit these cleavages through economic leverage\, propaganda\, and political interference. Under the pressure of Beijing’s sharp power\, Taiwan’s democracy has repeatedly faced threats of regression. Yet each time these pressures escalate\, Taiwan’s civil society has mobilized in response\, playing a crucial role in defending democratic institutions. Drawing on case studies such as the 2014 Sunflower Movement\, the 2019 wave of solidarity with Hong Kong protests\, and recent civic mobilizations in 2024\, this talk highlights how Taiwan’s vibrant civil society has become a key source of democratic resilience. \n\n\n\nThe talk is based on Lin’s forthcoming book\, Stormy Seas: Taiwan Under the Shadow of China in the 21st Century (Stanford University Press\, forthcoming September 2026)\, which situates Taiwan’s democratic resilience within the broader trajectory of U.S.–China relations and global geopolitics over the past half century. \n\n\n\nThung-Hong Lin is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan. He studies inequality\, political economy\, disasters\, and Taiwan’s democracy\, and was a 2023–24 Stanford–Taiwan Social Science Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) and a Fulbright Fellow. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taiwan-workshop-featuring-thung-hong-lin-stormy-seas-taiwans-democratic-resilience-under-chinas-sharp-power/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Taiwan
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SUMMARY:Revisiting the Wasteocene: Shifting Circular Economies of Night-soil in Early 20th-Century China
DESCRIPTION:Register for zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Gonçalo Santos\, University of CoimbraMeeting Registration – Zoom \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/revisiting-the-wasteocene-shifting-circular-economies-of-night-soil-in-early-20th-century-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T113000
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SUMMARY:What Does It Mean to “Write Oneself” in Tibetan Autobiographical Tradition: The Amazing  Life of Guru Chowang
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Geri Jiebu\, Associate Professor\, School of Chinese Ethnic Minority Language and Literature\, Minzu University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Janet Gyatso\, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies\, Harvard Divinity School \n\n\n\n\nWhat Does It Mean to “Write Oneself” in Tibetan Autobiographical Tradition: The Amazing  Life of Guru Chowang\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/what-does-it-mean-to-write-oneself-in-tibetan-autobiographical-tradition-the-amazing-life-of-guru-chowang/
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:20260428T150000
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations 
DESCRIPTION:Presentations: \n\n\n\nLingang Zhou\, Associate Professor\, School of Politics and International Affairs\, East China Normal University; 2025-26 Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Talk title coming soon \n\n\n\nYixiao Zhou\, Associate Professor in Economics and Director of the China Economy Program\, Crawford School of Public Policy\, The Australian National University; 2025-26 Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The Impact of Chinese Firms on Global Competition Since China’s market-oriented reforms and accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO)\, the share of Chinese firms in the global market has expanded significantly in recent decades. In this talk\, Yixiao Zhou examines how the increase in China’s global market share has reshaped global competition. She examines how competitive pressure varies between firms of different market power\, size\, geographic locations\, and industry sectors.  \n\n\n\nYunli Lou\, Founder and Managing Partner\, Milestone Capital Partners; 2025-26 Visiting Fellow of Practice\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Talk title coming soon \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-visiting-scholar-presentations-4/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S153\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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