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Fairbank & FriendsWelcome to Fairbank & Friends“All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.” Malcolm X
How did we get here, where are we going and how do we stay present through the journey.
Join me and marinate in the mystery.
I consider myself a story catcher and a storyteller, constantly oscillating between a craving for understanding and relaxing into being
Part of the inspiration for this project was to give myself a chance to meet and reconnect with those who have, and continue to, shape and inspire my experience along the way of this thing we call...
2024-02-1604 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHow Will the War in Ukraine Impact China’s Engagement in Eastern Europe?Over the past three decades, China has become a major trade partner and investor for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. The region is also an important component of the BRI New Eurasian Land Bridge, providing alternative access to Western Europe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is shaking up China’s plans and prospects in this part of Eurasia. With the closing of borders between Russia and the EU, China’s long-term interests are arguably at risk. The war is also resulting in geopolitical shifts and hardening divisions between the West on the one hand, and China and Russia on the other. This p...
2022-05-171h 22
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHow Will the War in Ukraine Impact China’s Engagement in Eastern Europe?Over the past three decades, China has become a major trade partner and investor for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. The region is also an important component of the BRI New Eurasian Land Bridge, providing alternative access to Western Europe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is shaking up China’s plans and prospects in this part of Eurasia. With the closing of borders between Russia and the EU, China’s long-term interests are arguably at risk. The war is also resulting in geopolitical shifts and hardening divisions between the West on the one hand, and China and Russia on the other. This p...
2022-05-171h 22
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThe Ideograph and a Cantonese Pun, with Eugenia LeanSpeaker: Eugenia Lean, Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityBy examining two early legal cases featuring the alleged counterfeiting of Xiangmao Honey Soap, this talk shows how the Chinese language and linguistic practices in Chinese commercial culture often stymied Western manufacturers and import companies’ attempts to pursue and prosecute suspected Chinese copycats. Xiangmao soap was featured in the first ever trademark litigation trial in China held in 1889. In that trial, it became evident that the emerging global trademark regime was premised on an Orientalist understanding of the Chinese character as ideograph. A...
2022-01-161h 26
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThe Ideograph and a Cantonese Pun, with Eugenia LeanSpeaker: Eugenia Lean, Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
By examining two early legal cases featuring the alleged counterfeiting of Xiangmao Honey Soap, this talk shows how the Chinese language and linguistic practices in Chinese commercial culture often stymied Western manufacturers and import companies’ attempts to pursue and prosecute suspected Chinese copycats. Xiangmao soap was featured in the first ever trademark litigation trial in China held in 1889. In that trial, it became evident that the emerging global trademark regime was premised on an Orientalist understanding of the Chinese character as id...
2022-01-161h 26Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesShaping China’s Narratives: How Journalists Report on China in the WorldChina is constantly in the global media limelight due to its growing presence and influence throughout the world. Journalists reporting on this rising superpower play a crucial role in explaining the complexities of its domestic developments and international activities to local publics. This is a formidable task, made even more difficult by the increasingly constrained environment in China forcing most critical journalists leave the country and work from outside its borders. This panel brings together reporters from different parts of the world to discuss how they see their role in shaping and challenging narratives on China and how they approach...
2022-01-111h 19
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesShaping China’s Narratives: How Journalists Report on China in the WorldChina is constantly in the global media limelight due to its growing presence and influence throughout the world. Journalists reporting on this rising superpower play a crucial role in explaining the complexities of its domestic developments and international activities to local publics. This is a formidable task, made even more difficult by the increasingly constrained environment in China forcing most critical journalists leave the country and work from outside its borders. This panel brings together reporters from different parts of the world to discuss how they see their role in shaping and challenging narratives on China and how they approach...
2022-01-111h 19
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesConnecting the World-Island | What Will China’s PEACE Cable Bring To Pakistan And East Africa?China’s Hengtong Group—leading a consortium of telecom companies from Hong Kong, Pakistan, and East Africa—will soon complete installation of the Pakistan East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) cable. Spanning the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, this cable will connect the three most populous continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, or what Halford Mackinder described as the “World Island.” The cable aims to provide these previously under-serviced regions with the shortest latency between routes and high-quality Internet, but what are China’s aims with the project and what benefits will it bring to partners in South Asia and Africa? This...
2021-11-161h 16
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesConnecting the World-Island | What Will China’s PEACE Cable Bring To Pakistan And East Africa?China’s Hengtong Group—leading a consortium of telecom companies from Hong Kong, Pakistan, and East Africa—will soon complete installation of the Pakistan East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) cable. Spanning the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, this cable will connect the three most populous continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, or what Halford Mackinder described as the “World Island.” The cable aims to provide these previously under-serviced regions with the shortest latency between routes and high-quality Internet, but what are China’s aims with the project and what benefits will it bring to partners in South Asia and Africa? This...
2021-11-161h 16
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesRural Revitalization: China's "Ace" in Dealing with Western "Competition," with Xiaotong FengSpeaker: Xiaotong Feng, Ph.D. Candidate, Communication University of China; Fairbank Center Visiting ScholarDiscussant/Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityIn the past few years, even the most optimistic scholars will not deny that China’s relations with Western countries have encountered big difficulties. Whether China accepts this willingly or not, the external conditions needed to maintain China’s past economic growth model are now absent. The “Rural Revitalization” strategy promoted by Xi Jinping is generally regarded as an internal social governance issue, aimed at promoting social equity, balancin...
2021-04-271h 13
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesRural Revitalization: China's "Ace" in Dealing with Western "Competition," with Xiaotong FengSpeaker: Xiaotong Feng, Ph.D. Candidate, Communication University of China; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar
Discussant/Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
In the past few years, even the most optimistic scholars will not deny that China’s relations with Western countries have encountered big difficulties. Whether China accepts this willingly or not, the external conditions needed to maintain China’s past economic growth model are now absent. The “Rural Revitalization” strategy promoted by Xi Jinping is generally regarded as an internal social governance issue, aimed at promoting social e...
2021-04-271h 13
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesRural Revitalization: China‘s ”Ace” in Dealing with Western ”Competition,” with Xiaotong FengSpeaker: Xiaotong Feng, Ph.D. Candidate, Communication University of China; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar
Discussant/Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
In the past few years, even the most optimistic scholars will not deny that China’s relations with Western countries have encountered big difficulties. Whether China accepts this willingly or not, the external conditions needed to maintain China’s past economic growth model are now absent. The “Rural Revitalization” strategy promoted by Xi Jinping is generally regarded as an internal social governance issue, aimed at promoting social e...
2021-04-271h 13
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesNorthern Europe's Response to China's Belt and Road InitiativeSpeakers:Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, New Silk Road Program, Latvian Institute of International AffairsBjörn Jerdén, Director, Knowledge Centre on China , Swedish Institute of International AffairsLuke Patey, Senior Researcher, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, Danish Institute for International StudiesModerators:Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian StudiesJames Gethyn Evans, Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard UniversityNordic and Baltic countries have struggled to develop well-calibrated approaches to cooperation with China and its flagship Belt and Road Initi...
2021-03-291h 00
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesNorthern Europe's Response to China's Belt and Road InitiativeSpeakers:
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, New Silk Road Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs
Björn Jerdén, Director, Knowledge Centre on China , Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Luke Patey, Senior Researcher, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, Danish Institute for International Studies
Moderators:
Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
James Gethyn Evans, Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Nordic and Baltic countries have struggled to develop well-calibrated approaches to cooperation with China and its f...
2021-03-291h 00Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesNorthern Europe‘s Response to China‘s Belt and Road InitiativeSpeakers:
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, New Silk Road Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs
Björn Jerdén, Director, Knowledge Centre on China , Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Luke Patey, Senior Researcher, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, Danish Institute for International Studies
Moderators:
Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
James Gethyn Evans, Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Nordic and Baltic countries have struggled to develop well-calibrated approaches to cooperation with China and its f...
2021-03-291h 00
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesIran and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Between Desirable and FeasibleExperiencing another downturn in its relations with the West, Iran has been more actively “looking to the East” to pursue stronger political and economic cooperation with China. Tehran remains an enthusiastic supporter of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), despite the withdrawal of Chinese companies from a number of projects due to U.S. sanctions. Iran still hopes to benefit from investments, technologies and new connectivity routes promoted under the BRI umbrella. This roundtable will discuss the prospects of Iran becoming a node of the BRI, and the promises and challenges of Chinese investment in the Iranian economy.
Speakers:
Eyck F...
2021-02-251h 03
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesIran and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Between Desirable and FeasibleExperiencing another downturn in its relations with the West, Iran has been more actively “looking to the East” to pursue stronger political and economic cooperation with China. Tehran remains an enthusiastic supporter of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), despite the withdrawal of Chinese companies from a number of projects due to U.S. sanctions. Iran still hopes to benefit from investments, technologies and new connectivity routes promoted under the BRI umbrella. This roundtable will discuss the prospects of Iran becoming a node of the BRI, and the promises and challenges of Chinese investment in the Iranian economy.Speakers:Eyck F...
2021-02-251h 03Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesIran and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Between Desirable and FeasibleExperiencing another downturn in its relations with the West, Iran has been more actively “looking to the East” to pursue stronger political and economic cooperation with China. Tehran remains an enthusiastic supporter of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), despite the withdrawal of Chinese companies from a number of projects due to U.S. sanctions. Iran still hopes to benefit from investments, technologies and new connectivity routes promoted under the BRI umbrella. This roundtable will discuss the prospects of Iran becoming a node of the BRI, and the promises and challenges of Chinese investment in the Iranian economy.
Speakers:
Eyck F...
2021-02-251h 03
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesImpact of COVID-19 on Mental Health in China, India, and the US, Fairbank Center Director’s SeminarModerator:
Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Panelists:
Xiao Shuiyuan, Professor, Central South University, Xianya School of Public Health.
Yifeng Xu, President, Shanghai Mental Health Center; Head & Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Director, WHO/Shanghai Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health.
Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine...
2020-11-221h 18Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesImpact of COVID-19 on Mental Health in China, India, and the US, Fairbank Center Director’s SeminarModerator: Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences.Panelists:Xiao Shuiyuan, Professor, Central South University, Xianya School of Public Health.Yifeng Xu, President, Shanghai Mental Health Center; Head & Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Director, WHO/Shanghai Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health.Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine...
2020-11-221h 18Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesImpact of COVID-19 on Mental Health in China, India, and the US, Fairbank Center Director’s SeminarModerator:
Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Panelists:
Xiao Shuiyuan, Professor, Central South University, Xianya School of Public Health.
Yifeng Xu, President, Shanghai Mental Health Center; Head & Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Director, WHO/Shanghai Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health.
Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine...
2020-11-221h 18Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesMyths and Realities in Sino-American Relations, Fairbank Center Director’s SeminarSpeaker: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.Moderator: Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton; Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama.Introduction by: Winnie Chi-Man Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population; Faculty Director, Harvard China Health Partnership, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Interim Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Harvard Kennedy School.
2020-11-141h 29
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesMyths and Realities in Sino-American Relations, Fairbank Center Director’s SeminarSpeaker: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.
Moderator: Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton; Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama.
Introduction by: Winnie Chi-Man Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population; Faculty Director, Harvard China Health Partnership, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Interim Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Harvard Kennedy School.
2020-11-141h 29Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesMyths and Realities in Sino-American Relations, Fairbank Center Director’s SeminarSpeaker: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School.
Moderator: Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton; Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama.
Introduction by: Winnie Chi-Man Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population; Faculty Director, Harvard China Health Partnership, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Interim Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Harvard Kennedy School.
2020-11-141h 29
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesRising China in Perspective: Global Threat or Great Power Competitor, with Robert S. RossSpeaker: Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Fairbank Center AssociatePart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series, hosted by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
2020-10-101h 20Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesRising China in Perspective: Global Threat or Great Power Competitor, with Robert S. RossSpeaker: Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate
Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series, hosted by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.
2020-10-101h 20
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThe Belt-Road Initiative and COVID-19, with Min YeSpeaker: Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityChina’s Belt and Road Initiative, pronounced by Chinese leader Xi Jinping as the “project of the century”, now faces the most uncertain fate in China and abroad. In this new research, Min Ye evaluates policy discourses, interest groups, and nascent BRI networks in China and concludes that domestic drivers for the BRI have not been altered by the Covid-19. However, the external environment and demand for BRI ar...
2020-05-201h 14
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThe Belt-Road Initiative and COVID-19, with Min YeSpeaker: Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.
Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
China’s Belt and Road Initiative, pronounced by Chinese leader Xi Jinping as the “project of the century”, now faces the most uncertain fate in China and abroad. In this new research, Min Ye evaluates policy discourses, interest groups, and nascent BRI networks in China and concludes that domestic drivers for the BRI have not been altered by the Covid-19. However, the external environment and demand for BR...
2020-05-201h 14Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThe Belt-Road Initiative and COVID-19, with Min YeSpeaker: Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.
Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
China’s Belt and Road Initiative, pronounced by Chinese leader Xi Jinping as the “project of the century”, now faces the most uncertain fate in China and abroad. In this new research, Min Ye evaluates policy discourses, interest groups, and nascent BRI networks in China and concludes that domestic drivers for the BRI have not been altered by the Covid-19. However, the external environment and demand for BR...
2020-05-201h 14
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesSamantha Power - China, the UN, and the Future of Human Rights | 2020 Neuhauser Memorial LectureSpeaker: Samantha PowerU.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 2013-2017Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of GovernmentWilliam D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights, Harvard Law SchoolAmbassador Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School.From 2013 to 2017 Power served as the 28th U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, as well as a member of President Obama’s cabinet. In th...
2020-02-061h 34Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesSamantha Power - China, the UN, and the Future of Human Rights | 2020 Neuhauser Memorial LectureSpeaker: Samantha Power
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 2013-2017
Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights, Harvard Law School
Ambassador Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School.
From 2013 to 2017 Power served as the 28th U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, as well as a member of President Obama’s...
2020-02-061h 34
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHuman Rights in China and the United States, with Carroll BogertCarroll Bogert (AB '83, AM '86) is president of The Marshall Project and previously deputy executive director at Human Rights Watch. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1998, she spent twelve years as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek in China, Southeast Asia, and the Soviet Union. She was awarded the 2019 Centennial Medal Citation by Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the highest honor bestowed by the school to alumni in recognition of outstanding contributions to society.The Harvard on China Podcast is hosted and produced by James Evans, and edited by Liza Tarbell at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies...
2019-12-0528 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHuman Rights in China and the United States, with Carroll BogertCarroll Bogert (AB '83, AM '86) is president of The Marshall Project and previously deputy executive director at Human Rights Watch. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1998, she spent twelve years as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek in China, Southeast Asia, and the Soviet Union.
She was awarded the 2019 Centennial Medal Citation by Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the highest honor bestowed by the school to alumni in recognition of outstanding contributions to society.
The Harvard on China Podcast is hosted and produced by James Evans, and edited by Liza Tarbell at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
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2019-12-0528 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTrade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, with Felix Boecking"No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945" (Harvard Asia Center, 2017), an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government. It argues instead that during the second Sino-Japanese War, China’s international trade, the Nationalist government’s tariff revenues, and hence its fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed. Drawing on the historical lessons of my research, in this talk, I will also discuss the unintended consequences of protectionism, the difficulties of strategising trade wa...
2019-09-3030 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTrade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, with Felix Boecking"No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945" (Harvard Asia Center, 2017), an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government. It argues instead that during the second Sino-Japanese War, China’s international trade, the Nationalist government’s tariff revenues, and hence its fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed. Drawing on the historical lessons of my research, in this talk, I will also discuss the unintended consequences of protectionism, the difficulties of strategising trade wa...
2019-09-3030 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesEzra Vogel - China and Japan: Facing HistorySpeaker: Ezra Vogel, Author; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard UniversityWith brief presentations by:Richard Dyck, former President, Teredyne, JapanPaula Harrell, School of Continuing Studies, Georgetown UniversityModerator: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching InstituteSponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard-Yenching Institute; the Program on U.S.-Japan RelationsRead and download the transcript for this event on our website: https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ezra-vogel-china-and-japan-facing-history/
2019-09-111h 28Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesEzra Vogel - China and Japan: Facing HistorySpeaker: Ezra Vogel, Author; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
With brief presentations by:
Richard Dyck, former President, Teredyne, Japan
Paula Harrell, School of Continuing Studies, Georgetown University
Moderator: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard-Yenching Institute; the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Read and download the transcript for this event on our website: https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ezra-vogel-china-and-japan-facing-history/
2019-09-111h 28
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesWhy Law Matters in Taiwan, with Margaret K. LewisWhy does law matter (and why wouldn't it) in Taiwan? Professor Margaret Lewis talks to the "Harvard on China" podcast about law in Taiwan, 'dinosaur judges,' public debates around same-sex marriage, law schools, and Taiwan's upcoming 2020 presidential election. Professor Margaret Lewis’s research focuses on law in mainland China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice.Professor Lewis has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Taiwan University, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow with the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and a delegate to the US-Japan Foundation's US-Japan Le...
2019-05-1737 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesWhy Law Matters in Taiwan, with Margaret K. LewisWhy does law matter (and why wouldn't it) in Taiwan? Professor Margaret Lewis talks to the "Harvard on China" podcast about law in Taiwan, 'dinosaur judges,' public debates around same-sex marriage, law schools, and Taiwan's upcoming 2020 presidential election.
Professor Margaret Lewis’s research focuses on law in mainland China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice.
Professor Lewis has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Taiwan University, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow with the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and a delegate to the US-Japan Foundation's US-Japan Le...
2019-05-1737 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTiananmen at 302019 marks 30 years since the events at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in June 1989. The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University discusses the impact of the Tiananmen massacre 30 years later. Speakers:Hao Jian, Professor, Beijing Film AcademyLouisa Lim, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne; Author, The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen RevisitedWang Dan, Founder and Executive Director of Dialogue ChinaJeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California IrvineModerator: Rowena Xiaoqing He, Current Member, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Author, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in ChinaRead and download the transcript of this event on our...
2019-05-102h 03Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTiananmen at 302019 marks 30 years since the events at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in June 1989. The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University discusses the impact of the Tiananmen massacre 30 years later.
Speakers:
Hao Jian, Professor, Beijing Film Academy
Louisa Lim, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne; Author, The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
Wang Dan, Founder and Executive Director of Dialogue China
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California Irvine
Moderator:
Rowena Xiaoqing He, Current Member, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Author, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China
Read and download the tran...
2019-05-102h 03
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesPaul Cohen - My Journey as a Historian of ChinaSpeaker: Paul Cohen, Fairbank Center AssociateIn his memoir Paul Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. The book’s title reflects the crucially important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed historically, by which point the historian and the world in which he or she lives have both undergone extensive change. This distinction is very much on C...
2019-04-251h 47
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesPaul Cohen - My Journey as a Historian of ChinaSpeaker: Paul Cohen, Fairbank Center Associate
In his memoir Paul Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. The book’s title reflects the crucially important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed historically, by which point the historian and the world in which he or she lives have both undergone extensive change. This distinction is very much...
2019-04-251h 47Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesPaul Cohen - My Journey as a Historian of ChinaSpeaker: Paul Cohen, Fairbank Center Associate
In his memoir Paul Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. The book’s title reflects the crucially important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed historically, by which point the historian and the world in which he or she lives have both undergone extensive change. This distinction is very much...
2019-04-251h 47
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies从“触摸历史”到“思想操练”——我看五四以及五四研究: Keynote Speech by Chen Pingyuan 陳平原“From ‘Touches of History’ to ‘Exercises in Thought’: My Views on May Fourth and May Fourth Studies” (从“触摸历史”到“思想操练”——我看五四以及五四研究)Chen Pingyuan 陳平原 (Peking University) presents the second keynote speech at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies' "May 4th @ 100: China and the World" conference. With welcome and opening remarks by Professors David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University) and Olga Lomová (Charles University, Prague).Hosted by Harvard University. Sponsored by: the Chiang Ching-Kuo Center for Sinology; National Taiwan University; the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard; the Harvard University Asia Center; the Harvard-Yenching Institute; and the Harvard Department of East Asian Languages and CivilizationsPlease note that this presentation is in Mandarin.
2019-04-181h 01Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies从“触摸历史”到“思想操练”——我看五四以及五四研究: Keynote Speech by Chen Pingyuan 陳平原“From ‘Touches of History’ to ‘Exercises in Thought’: My Views on May Fourth and May Fourth Studies” (从“触摸历史”到“思想操练”——我看五四以及五四研究)
Chen Pingyuan 陳平原 (Peking University) presents the second keynote speech at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies' "May 4th @ 100: China and the World" conference. With welcome and opening remarks by Professors David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University) and Olga Lomová (Charles University, Prague).
Hosted by Harvard University. Sponsored by: the Chiang Ching-Kuo Center for Sinology; National Taiwan University; the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard; the Harvard University Asia Center; the Harvard-Yenching Institute; and the Harvard Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Please note that this presentation is in Mandarin.
2019-04-181h 01
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesReconstructing May Fourth: Keynote Speech by Rudolf WagnerRudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg) presents the opening keynote speech at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies' "May 4th @ 100: China and the World" conference. With welcome and opening remarks by Professors David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University), Michael Szonyi (Harvard University) and Zhaoguang Ge 葛兆光 (Fudan University). Hosted by Harvard University. Sponsored by: the Chiang Ching-Kuo Center for Sinology; National Taiwan University; the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard; the Harvard University Asia Center; the Harvard-Yenching Institute; and the Harvard Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
2019-04-181h 08Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesReconstructing May Fourth: Keynote Speech by Rudolf WagnerRudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg) presents the opening keynote speech at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies' "May 4th @ 100: China and the World" conference. With welcome and opening remarks by Professors David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University), Michael Szonyi (Harvard University) and Zhaoguang Ge 葛兆光 (Fudan University).
Hosted by Harvard University. Sponsored by: the Chiang Ching-Kuo Center for Sinology; National Taiwan University; the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard; the Harvard University Asia Center; the Harvard-Yenching Institute; and the Harvard Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
2019-04-181h 08Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesCan We Live with China? 2019 Neuhauser Memorial Lecture with Susan ThorntonSusan Thornton was Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State during the first 18 months of the Trump administration. Prior to her departure, Thornton led East Asia policy-making amid crises with North Korea, escalating trade tensions with China, and a generally deteriorating environment in the United States for international economic and diplomatic engagement. She was the architect of the diplomatic pressure campaign on the North Korean regime, structured the administration’s initial approach to China, and developed the administration’s trademark Indo-Pacific Strategy.
In previous leadership roles in Washington, Thornton worked on China and Kore...
2019-03-051h 39
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesCan We Live with China? 2019 Neuhauser Memorial Lecture with Susan ThorntonSusan Thornton was Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State during the first 18 months of the Trump administration. Prior to her departure, Thornton led East Asia policy-making amid crises with North Korea, escalating trade tensions with China, and a generally deteriorating environment in the United States for international economic and diplomatic engagement. She was the architect of the diplomatic pressure campaign on the North Korean regime, structured the administration’s initial approach to China, and developed the administration’s trademark Indo-Pacific Strategy.In previous leadership roles in Washington, Thornton worked on China and Kore...
2019-03-051h 39
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChinese Investment: State-Owned Enterprises Stop Globalizing, for the moment, with Derek ScissorsSpeaker: Derek Scissors – American Enterprise InstituteDerek M. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is concurrently chief economist of the China Beige Book.Dr. Scissors is the author of the China Global Investment Tracker. In late 2008, he authored a series of papers that chronicled the end of pro-market Chinese reform and predicted economic stagnation in China as a result. He has also written multiple papers on the best course for Indian economic development.This event is from the Fairbank Ce...
2019-02-271h 31Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChinese Investment: State-Owned Enterprises Stop Globalizing, for the moment, with Derek ScissorsSpeaker: Derek Scissors – American Enterprise Institute
Derek M. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is concurrently chief economist of the China Beige Book.
Dr. Scissors is the author of the China Global Investment Tracker. In late 2008, he authored a series of papers that chronicled the end of pro-market Chinese reform and predicted economic stagnation in China as a result. He has also written multiple papers on the best course for Indian economic development.
This event is from the Fa...
2019-02-271h 31
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesNew Exhibitions and China's Cultural Revolution, with Denise Y. HoDenise Y. Ho is assistant professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University, and the author of "Curating Revolution: Politics on Display of Mao’s China" (2018). Using a wide variety of primary sources, including Shanghai’s municipal and district archives and oral history, "Curating Revolution" depicts displays of revolution and history, politics and class, and art and science. Analyzing China’s “socialist museums” and “new exhibitions,” Ho demonstrates how Mao-era exhibitionary culture both reflected and made revolution. Denise Y. Ho is an historian of modern China, with a particular focus on the social and cultural history of the Mao period (1949-1976). She i...
2019-01-1027 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesNew Exhibitions and China‘s Cultural Revolution, with Denise Y. HoDenise Y. Ho is assistant professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University, and the author of "Curating Revolution: Politics on Display of Mao’s China" (2018). Using a wide variety of primary sources, including Shanghai’s municipal and district archives and oral history, "Curating Revolution" depicts displays of revolution and history, politics and class, and art and science. Analyzing China’s “socialist museums” and “new exhibitions,” Ho demonstrates how Mao-era exhibitionary culture both reflected and made revolution.
Denise Y. Ho is an historian of modern China, with a particular focus on the social and cultural history of the Mao period (1949-1976). She i...
2019-01-1027 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesRecent Developments in Xinjiang, with Adrian ZenzSpeaker: Adrian Zenz, Lecturer in social research methods, European School of Culture & Theology, Germany. Dr. Zenz is author of the recently published paper, '"Thoroughly Reforming Them Towards a Healthy Heart Attitude" - China's Political Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang,' (Central Asian Survey 2018). Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost, International Affairs, Harvard UniversityCo-Sponsored by:Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesCommittee on Inner Asian and Altaic StudiesEast Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law SchoolPrince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies ProgramRead the transcript of this event on our website: https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/adrian-zenz-recent-developments-in-xinjiang/
2018-10-101h 32Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesRecent Developments in Xinjiang, with Adrian ZenzSpeaker: Adrian Zenz, Lecturer in social research methods, European School of Culture & Theology, Germany. Dr. Zenz is author of the recently published paper, '"Thoroughly Reforming Them Towards a Healthy Heart Attitude" - China's Political Re-Education Campaign in Xinjiang,' (Central Asian Survey 2018).
Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost, International Affairs, Harvard University
Co-Sponsored by:
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
Read the transcript of this event on our website: https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/adrian-zenz-recent-developments-in-xinjiang/
2018-10-101h 32
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesAn Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, with Ling ZhangIn the drama of Chinese history, the environment - and the Yellow River (Huang He) in particular - plays a major role. The river's breaching of its northern banks in the year 1048, for example, precipitated an environmental catastrophe that caused political and economic turmoil in the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127 CE). Ling Zhang examines this catastrophe to reveal new information about China's transition from the Tang to the Song dynasty and prompt questions for how China handles its contemporary relationship with its environment. Ling Zhang is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Boston College, and an Associate in...
2018-06-2535 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesAn Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, with Ling ZhangIn the drama of Chinese history, the environment - and the Yellow River (Huang He) in particular - plays a major role. The river's breaching of its northern banks in the year 1048, for example, precipitated an environmental catastrophe that caused political and economic turmoil in the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127 CE).
Ling Zhang examines this catastrophe to reveal new information about China's transition from the Tang to the Song dynasty and prompt questions for how China handles its contemporary relationship with its environment.
Ling Zhang is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Boston College, and an Associate in...
2018-06-2535 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesMetaphor, Myth, and “Dividing up the Chinese Melon,” with Rudolf WagnerChina's leaders often invoke the "century of humiliation" at the hands of foreigners as a means to promote national unity and garner public support for China's return to great power status. An historical metaphor for outside intervention is the vivid image of foreigners "dividing China up like a melon." As Rudolf Wagner explains, however, this metaphor has a more complex history, which highlights a continuing reverse-engineering of history by China's leaders for political gain. Rudolf Wagner is Senior Professor in the Institute for Sinology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and Center Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies...
2018-03-0628 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesMetaphor, Myth, and “Dividing up the Chinese Melon,” with Rudolf WagnerChina's leaders often invoke the "century of humiliation" at the hands of foreigners as a means to promote national unity and garner public support for China's return to great power status.
An historical metaphor for outside intervention is the vivid image of foreigners "dividing China up like a melon." As Rudolf Wagner explains, however, this metaphor has a more complex history, which highlights a continuing reverse-engineering of history by China's leaders for political gain.
Rudolf Wagner is Senior Professor in the Institute for Sinology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and Center Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies...
2018-03-0628 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesU.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China, with Nicholas BurnsAs President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? The Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation present Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns, in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Ezra Vogel, and Odd Arne Westad, moderated by Michael Szonyi.Speaker:Ambassador (Ret.) Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School; Former U.S. Under Secretary of...
2017-12-121h 23
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesU.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China, with Nicholas BurnsAs President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing?
The Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation present Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns, in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Ezra Vogel, and Odd Arne Westad, moderated by Michael Szonyi.
Speaker:
Ambassador (Ret.) Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School; Former U.S. Under Secretary of...
2017-12-121h 23Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesU.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China, with Nicholas BurnsAs President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing?
The Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation present Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns, in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Ezra Vogel, and Odd Arne Westad, moderated by Michael Szonyi.
Speaker:
Ambassador (Ret.) Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School; Former U.S. Under Secretary of...
2017-12-121h 23
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHow to Survive as an Authoritarian Regime, with Martin DimitrovThe collapse of communist regimes at the end of the Cold War led to a “third wave” of democratization across the world. Despite this, five nominally communist regimes still survive, including the ruling Chinese Communist Party, and today a rising number of nation states appear to be embracing authoritarianism. Martin Dimitrov, Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University and a former postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, talks to the “Harvard on China” podcast about the institutions and mechanisms that it takes for an authoritarian regime to survive in the twenty-first century. The “Harvard on China” podca...
2017-12-0130 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHow to Survive as an Authoritarian Regime, with Martin DimitrovThe collapse of communist regimes at the end of the Cold War led to a “third wave” of democratization across the world. Despite this, five nominally communist regimes still survive, including the ruling Chinese Communist Party, and today a rising number of nation states appear to be embracing authoritarianism.
Martin Dimitrov, Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University and a former postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, talks to the “Harvard on China” podcast about the institutions and mechanisms that it takes for an authoritarian regime to survive in the twenty-first century.
The “Harvard on China” podca...
2017-12-0130 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThe Rise of Xi Jinping, with Roderick MacFarquharRoderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, explores the rise of Xi Jinping.Hosted by Ezra F Vogel at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
2017-11-151h 13Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThe Rise of Xi Jinping, with Roderick MacFarquharRoderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, explores the rise of Xi Jinping.
Hosted by Ezra F Vogel at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
2017-11-151h 13
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesBlack and Red Revolution: Cultural Revolution "Dazibao" and Woodcuts from 1960s ChinaThe Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a panel discussion to celebrate the launch of our world-debut exhibition of Cultural Revolution-era artworks.
This is the first time that these works, including "dazibao" (or “big-character posters”), have been publicly displayed since the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
Panelists:
Denise Ho, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University
Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus, Harvard University
Julia Murray, Professor of Art History, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
Moderated by Mich...
2017-11-152h 03
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesBlack and Red Revolution: Cultural Revolution "Dazibao" and Woodcuts from 1960s ChinaThe Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a panel discussion to celebrate the launch of our world-debut exhibition of Cultural Revolution-era artworks.This is the first time that these works, including "dazibao" (or “big-character posters”), have been publicly displayed since the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).Panelists:Denise Ho, Assistant Professor of History, Yale UniversityJie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityRoderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus, Harvard UniversityJulia Murray, Professor of Art History, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-MadisonXiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard UniversityModerated by Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center for...
2017-11-152h 03Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesBlack and Red Revolution: Cultural Revolution "Dazibao" and Woodcuts from 1960s ChinaThe Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a panel discussion to celebrate the launch of our world-debut exhibition of Cultural Revolution-era artworks.
This is the first time that these works, including "dazibao" (or “big-character posters”), have been publicly displayed since the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
Panelists:
Denise Ho, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University
Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus, Harvard University
Julia Murray, Professor of Art History, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
Moderated by Mich...
2017-11-152h 03
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHow to Teach Digital Methods for Chinese Studies, with Donald SturgeonDigital methods are a developing field in the humanities and social sciences that is still little understood by many in the academy. Dr. Donald Sturgeon is a former Fairbank Center An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, founder of the Chinese Text Project, and currently teaching digital methods at Harvard University. Based on his class at Harvard, Donald discusses how to develop a curriculum for teaching digital methods in Chinese Studies.The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
2017-09-2723 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHow to Teach Digital Methods for Chinese Studies, with Donald SturgeonDigital methods are a developing field in the humanities and social sciences that is still little understood by many in the academy.
Dr. Donald Sturgeon is a former Fairbank Center An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, founder of the Chinese Text Project, and currently teaching digital methods at Harvard University. Based on his class at Harvard, Donald discusses how to develop a curriculum for teaching digital methods in Chinese Studies.
The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
2017-09-2723 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesAre Bugs the Answer to China's Urban Waste Crisis? With Amy ZhangHow could bugs and insects be used to process urban waste in an environmentally-conscious way?Amy Zhang - An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University - talks to the "Harvard on China" podcast about how black fly larvae are used in communal composting in Guangzhou, China. Could insects hold the answer to China's urban organic waste crisis?The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Follow us on SoundCloud, iTunes, Stitcher, and other podcast apps.
2017-08-2220 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesAre Bugs the Answer to China's Urban Waste Crisis? With Amy ZhangHow could bugs and insects be used to process urban waste in an environmentally-conscious way?
Amy Zhang - An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University - talks to the "Harvard on China" podcast about how black fly larvae are used in communal composting in Guangzhou, China. Could insects hold the answer to China's urban organic waste crisis?
The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Follow us on SoundCloud, iTunes, Stitcher, and other podcast apps.
2017-08-2220 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThe Souls of China: Religion after Mao, with Ian JohnsonIan Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, journalist, and reviewer of China’s society, religion, and history.His writing appears regularly in leading publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and the New York Review of Books. This year, he was awarded the Shorenstein Journalism Award by Stanford's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.Ian's latest book, "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao," follows three religious groups in China - an underground Protestant church in Chengdu, pilgrims in Beijing, rural Daoist priests in Shanxi, and meditation groups in caves in th...
2017-07-0342 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThe Souls of China: Religion after Mao, with Ian JohnsonIan Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, journalist, and reviewer of China’s society, religion, and history.
His writing appears regularly in leading publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and the New York Review of Books. This year, he was awarded the Shorenstein Journalism Award by Stanford's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
Ian's latest book, "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao," follows three religious groups in China - an underground Protestant church in Chengdu, pilgrims in Beijing, rural Daoist priests in Shanxi, and meditation groups in caves in th...
2017-07-0342 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesSame-Sex Marriage in Taiwan: Politics, LGBT Rights, and International Reputation, with George YinOn May 24, 2017, a court in Taipei struck down Taiwan’s ban on same-sex marriage. This ruling, the result of years of campaigning by LGBT-rights activists in Taiwan combined with recent political support, opens the doors for Taiwan to become the first place in Asia to recognize same-sex unions.
The Taiwanese legislature now has two years in which to pass a law permitting same-sex marriage, but in the meantime the effects of today's ruling will resonate across Taiwan and Asia.
George Yin, a former Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate and newly appointed Research Fellow in government at Dartmouth College, talks to th...
2017-07-0312 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesSame-Sex Marriage in Taiwan: Politics, LGBT Rights, and International Reputation, with George YinOn May 24, 2017, a court in Taipei struck down Taiwan’s ban on same-sex marriage. This ruling, the result of years of campaigning by LGBT-rights activists in Taiwan combined with recent political support, opens the doors for Taiwan to become the first place in Asia to recognize same-sex unions.The Taiwanese legislature now has two years in which to pass a law permitting same-sex marriage, but in the meantime the effects of today's ruling will resonate across Taiwan and Asia.George Yin, a former Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate and newly appointed Research Fellow in government at Dartmouth College, talks to th...
2017-07-0312 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesSame-Sex Marriage in Taiwan: Politics, LGBT Rights, and International Reputation, with George YinOn May 24, 2017, a court in Taipei struck down Taiwan’s ban on same-sex marriage. This ruling, the result of years of campaigning by LGBT-rights activists in Taiwan combined with recent political support, opens the doors for Taiwan to become the first place in Asia to recognize same-sex unions.
The Taiwanese legislature now has two years in which to pass a law permitting same-sex marriage, but in the meantime the effects of today's ruling will resonate across Taiwan and Asia.
George Yin, a former Fairbank Center Graduate Student Associate and newly appointed Research Fellow in government at Dartmouth College, talks to th...
2017-07-0312 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesCorruption in China on the Eve of the 19th Party Congress, with Michael ForsytheMichael Forsythe is a New York Times journalist who is well known for his detailed reports on the links between money and politics in China.The "Harvard on China" podcast spoke to Michael Forsythe on the eve of China's 19th Party Congress, an important political event where Chinese President Xi Jinping will formally appoint new members to China's politburo standing committee.What outcomes can we expect to see from this quinquennial event? How do foreign journalists cover sensitive political topics in China? And how is money altering the U.S.-China relationship in light of revelations regarding Jared Kushner's family...
2017-07-0323 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesCorruption in China on the Eve of the 19th Party Congress, with Michael ForsytheMichael Forsythe is a New York Times journalist who is well known for his detailed reports on the links between money and politics in China.
The "Harvard on China" podcast spoke to Michael Forsythe on the eve of China's 19th Party Congress, an important political event where Chinese President Xi Jinping will formally appoint new members to China's politburo standing committee.
What outcomes can we expect to see from this quinquennial event? How do foreign journalists cover sensitive political topics in China? And how is money altering the U.S.-China relationship in light of revelations regarding Jared Kushner's family...
2017-07-0323 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesReporting From China, with Pulitzer Prize winner David BarbozaIn 2004, David Barboza became the New York Times' Shanghai correspondent, where he began researching a story that would fundamentally change the relationship between Western journalists and the Chinese government.
The story involved the former Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao, and his billions of hidden assets in stocks, companies, and through family and close friends. By confirming rumors that indicated corruption at the highest levels of the Chinese government, David Barboza's report was explosive, and received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
The scandalizing nature of his report did not go unnoticed by Beijing, however, and the New York Times...
2017-07-0345 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesReporting From China, with Pulitzer Prize winner David BarbozaIn 2004, David Barboza became the New York Times' Shanghai correspondent, where he began researching a story that would fundamentally change the relationship between Western journalists and the Chinese government.The story involved the former Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao, and his billions of hidden assets in stocks, companies, and through family and close friends. By confirming rumors that indicated corruption at the highest levels of the Chinese government, David Barboza's report was explosive, and received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.The scandalizing nature of his report did not go unnoticed by Beijing, however, and the New York Times...
2017-07-0345 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesReporting From China, with Pulitzer Prize winner David BarbozaIn 2004, David Barboza became the New York Times' Shanghai correspondent, where he began researching a story that would fundamentally change the relationship between Western journalists and the Chinese government.
The story involved the former Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao, and his billions of hidden assets in stocks, companies, and through family and close friends. By confirming rumors that indicated corruption at the highest levels of the Chinese government, David Barboza's report was explosive, and received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
The scandalizing nature of his report did not go unnoticed by Beijing, however, and the New York Times...
2017-07-0345 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChinese Reformers, Western Economists, and "Unlikely Partners," with Julian GewirtzChina has a long and complex history of interacting with foreign thinkers. After Mao's death in 1976, the Chinese leadership solicited foreign economists in order to curate China’s path towards market reforms and the economic boom that continues today.
These little-understood partnerships between foreign economists and China's leaders are the subject of Julian Gewirtz’s new book “Unlikely Partners: Western Economists, and the Making of Global China" from Harvard University Press. This project developed out of Julian's senior thesis here at Harvard, supervised by the Fairbank Center’s own Professor Erez Manella in 2013.
Julian is currently a Rhodes Scholar and DPhil Ca...
2017-07-0318 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChinese Reformers, Western Economists, and "Unlikely Partners," with Julian GewirtzChina has a long and complex history of interacting with foreign thinkers. After Mao's death in 1976, the Chinese leadership solicited foreign economists in order to curate China’s path towards market reforms and the economic boom that continues today. These little-understood partnerships between foreign economists and China's leaders are the subject of Julian Gewirtz’s new book “Unlikely Partners: Western Economists, and the Making of Global China" from Harvard University Press. This project developed out of Julian's senior thesis here at Harvard, supervised by the Fairbank Center’s own Professor Erez Manella in 2013. Julian is currently a Rhodes Scholar and DPhil Ca...
2017-07-0318 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChinese Reformers, Western Economists, and "Unlikely Partners," with Julian GewirtzChina has a long and complex history of interacting with foreign thinkers. After Mao's death in 1976, the Chinese leadership solicited foreign economists in order to curate China’s path towards market reforms and the economic boom that continues today.
These little-understood partnerships between foreign economists and China's leaders are the subject of Julian Gewirtz’s new book “Unlikely Partners: Western Economists, and the Making of Global China" from Harvard University Press. This project developed out of Julian's senior thesis here at Harvard, supervised by the Fairbank Center’s own Professor Erez Manella in 2013.
Julian is currently a Rhodes Scholar and DPhil Ca...
2017-07-0318 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesWhat Bamboo Slips teach us about Ancient Chinese Philosophy, with Sarah AllanToday’s guest on the “Harvard on China” podcast is Sarah Allan, the Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth College, and Chair of the Society for the Study of Early China.Professor Allan's research explores previously undiscovered Chinese philosophical texts from the Warring States period (475-221 BCE) written on bamboo slips and buried in tombs in rural China.The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the Fairbank Center's SoundCloud page.
2017-07-0307 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesWhat Bamboo Slips teach us about Ancient Chinese Philosophy, with Sarah AllanToday’s guest on the “Harvard on China” podcast is Sarah Allan, the Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth College, and Chair of the Society for the Study of Early China.
Professor Allan's research explores previously undiscovered Chinese philosophical texts from the Warring States period (475-221 BCE) written on bamboo slips and buried in tombs in rural China.
The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the Fairbank Center's SoundCloud page.
2017-07-0307 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesRural Women under Mao: Oral Histories of China with Gail HershatterToday’s guest on the Harvard on China podcast is Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California Santa Cruz.Her research spans the history of China’s long twentieth century. She re-examines the immense societal changes of China's communist past through oral histories of rural women.While Mao Zedong's mass campaigns for collectivization, anti-intellectualism and ideological purity raged in China’s coastal cities, did these rural women experience the same messages as their urban counterparts?The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the...
2017-07-0314 minHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesRural Women under Mao: Oral Histories of China with Gail HershatterToday’s guest on the Harvard on China podcast is Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Her research spans the history of China’s long twentieth century. She re-examines the immense societal changes of China's communist past through oral histories of rural women.
While Mao Zedong's mass campaigns for collectivization, anti-intellectualism and ideological purity raged in China’s coastal cities, did these rural women experience the same messages as their urban counterparts?
The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the...
2017-07-0314 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTrump Meets Xi: the Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom with John PomfretThis week, President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time.Will their meeting herald a new era in U.S.-China relations? Probably not, and in fact we may see a lot of short term instability between Washington and Beijing. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be optimistic about the future of this vital relationship.The "Harvard on China" podcast spoke with John Pomfret - former Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post from 1996 to 2003, and author of "The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present" - about how he sees...
2017-07-0325 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTaiwan Calling: Why is the Trump-Tsai phone call so important? With Steven GoldsteinPresident-elect Donald Trump broke diplomatic protocol by receiving a call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. Why is this phone call so important, why shouldn’t Trump have taken the call, and why are the foreign policy establishment seemingly split on the issue? We spoke with Steven Goldstein, Fairbank Center Associate, organizer of the Center’s Taiwan Studies Workshop, and Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus at Smith College.
The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the Fairbank Center's SoundCloud page.
2017-07-0314 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTaiwan Calling: Why is the Trump-Tsai phone call so important? With Steven GoldsteinPresident-elect Donald Trump broke diplomatic protocol by receiving a call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen. Why is this phone call so important, why shouldn’t Trump have taken the call, and why are the foreign policy establishment seemingly split on the issue? We spoke with Steven Goldstein, Fairbank Center Associate, organizer of the Center’s Taiwan Studies Workshop, and Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus at Smith College.The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Listen to more podcasts at the Fairbank Center's SoundCloud page.
2017-07-0314 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHow Should We Use the Chinese Past? With Leigh JencoIn the West, we often consider Western philosophical discourse to have a degree of universality. This is not always the case, however, when we think about Chinese thought. Why does Chinese philosophy not hold a similar degree of universal applicability that is assigned to thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Kant? Can China’s past be conceptualized as a global heritage beyond individuals who are considered Chinese?Leigh Jenco is an Associate Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics. Her research examines Chinese political thought and linkages in political theory between East Asia and the West, and sh...
2017-07-0314 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesSino-Japanese Relations Through Kanzo Uchiyama And Lu Xun, with Joshua FogelSino-Japanese relations are often portrayed as a rivalry hindered by historical grievances. Joshua Fogel, Canada Research Chair at York University, Toronto, explores a different side of China’s relationship with Japan. Fogel is the author of many books on Sino-Japanese relations, with his latest book, Japanese for Sinologists, forthcoming from University of California Press.The Harvard on China podcast talks to Joshua Fogel about his recent research on Kanzo Uchiyama—the founder of Shanghai’s Uchiyama Bookstore and close friend of Chinese literary giant Lu Xun—about how this deep friendship fostered a personal connection between China and Japan and provides...
2017-07-0311 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesChinese Investment in Post-Brexit Europe, with Philippe Le CorreEurope’s post-2008 financial crises have provided opportunities for Chinese overseas investment in cash-strapped European states. From infrastructure investments in a high-speed rail line between Serbia and Hungary, to developing Greece’s port of Piraeus, becoming majority shareholders in France’s Toulouse airport, and developing business parks in Belarus, China’s continent-wide investments are altering economic and political realities across Europe. In the wake of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (Brexit), how will Chinese investment continue to change realpolitik in the Old Continent?The Harvard on China podcast talks with Phillipe Le Corre, a visiting fellow at the Brooki...
2017-07-0317 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesU.S.-China Relations in the Obama Administration, with Evan MedeirosThe 2016 presidential election pushed the U.S-China relationship to the forefront of public debates. In both foreign policy and domestic politics, China loomed large as politicians threw accusations against Beijing's apparent currency manipulation, damage to American competitiveness, or even stealing of American jobs.So how do these accusations affect arguably the most important relationship in the world? The Fairbank Center talks to Evan Medeiros, former Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council and special assistant to President Obama, about the foundations of U.S.-China relations during the Obama Administration, as well as lessons for the next...
2017-07-0307 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesTrump And Asia: Business As Usual?The Asia-related centers at Harvard University continue our new “Trump and Asia” series with a panel on international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia in the age of Trump.Speakers:William KirbyT. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Director of the Harvard China Fund; former Director of the Fairbank CenterMireya SolisSenior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, and Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies at the Brookings InstituteMark WuAssistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law SchoolModerated by Tarun KhannaJorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvar...
2017-06-291h 48
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies"Rethinking China Under Xi Jinping,” Elizabeth Economy presents Harvard's 2015 Neuhauser LectureElizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, presents "Rethinking China under Xi Jinping: Politics at Home and Abroad” for the Fairbank Center's 2015 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture.Listen to more public events from Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies on our Soundcloud page.
2017-06-2950 min