BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9@harvard-yenching.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090101T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111231T170000 DTSTAMP:20201027T004154Z URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/2009-2011-hyi-past-events/ SUMMARY:2009-2011 HYI Past Events DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n The Moon-window as interface with ancestral altars\n\n W ang Yuan (Art History\, Shanghai Jiaotong University\; HYI Art History Tr aining Program Scholar 2010-11)\n Discussant: Prof. Eugene Wang (Abby Al drich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art\, Harvard University) \n\n Date: Friday\, December 16\, 2011\n Time: 12:00 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard University\n\n The traditional Chinese in terface with ancestor sacrifice space normally has a specific and consiste nt modality. In this talk\, Wang Yuan will take a particular motif\, the m oon-window\, which appeared in the residential ancestor hall of a Hakka im migrant village in south Zhejiang province during the Qing Dynasty\, as an example. Her talk will look at how and why the sacrificial space took on an innovative form\, and will trace the innovation of the moon-window back to a long tradition in Chinese etiquette and custom. Professor Wang also seeks to restore the relationship between the use of moon-windows in diffe rent contexts and the illusion of natural moon.\n\n\n Yunnan and the Benga l Bay\n\n Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n Yang Bin (History\, National University of Singapore\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2 011-12)\n Discussant: Prof. Michael Witzel (Wales Professor of Sanskrit\ , Harvard University) \n\n Date: Wednesday\, December 14\, 2011\n Time: 1 2:00 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard Unive rsity\n\n Yunnan\, a frontier province in southwest China\, has long been placed in Chinese historical narration. This talk aims to bring back its m edieval connections to Southeast and South Asia.  It first introduces the use of cauri (cowrie or cowry) currency in Yunnan and other areas aroun d the Bay of Bengal\, and then construct historical routes linking the Ben gali world and Yunnan\, both by land and sea. The spread of Buddhism into Yunnan will be discussed to highlight the Bengali cultural influence. Keep ing these reflections in perspective\, Yang Bin calls for a reconsideratio n of the current so-called Chinese frontier studies.\n\n\n The Rise of Ind ustrial Policy in China: Japanese Lessons\, Chinese Adaptations\, 1980-201 2\n\n Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\n\n Sebastian Heilmann \n Professor of Comparative Government and the Politic al Economy of China\, University of Trier\, Germany\n\n Date: Tuesday\, De cember 13\, 2011\n Time: 12:15 pm                  \n Loc ation: S050\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Harvard University\n\n This talk will present new findings on the emergence of large-scale indust rial policy programs in China during the past decade and their proliferati on since 2009. Two processes will be at the center of the presentation: th e absorption and accommodation of Japanese industrial policy experiences b y Chinese economic planners that started in the 1980s (explaining transnat ional policy adaptation)\; the failure of pioneering industrial policies d uring the 1990s and the forceful comeback of targeted national programs in China in recent years (explaining domestic policy breakthroughs and advoc acy coalitions).\n\n\n Political Legitimacy in China: A Confucian Approach \n\n Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Fairbank Cente r for Chinese Studies \n\n Daniel Bell (Jiaotong University and Tsinghua University)\n\n Date: Tuesday\, December 6\, 2011\n Time: 4:15 pm                   \n Location: CGIS South\, Belfer Case Study Ro om (S020)\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Harvard University\n\n More informatio n: http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/daniel-bell\n\n\n Whose Xinjiang ? The Transition in Chinese intellectuals’ imagination of the “New Dom inion” during the Qing dynasty\n\n Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center f or Chinese Studies\n\n Jia Jianfei (History\, Chinese Academy of Social S ciences\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)\n Discussant: Prof. Mark Elliott  (Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, EALC\, Har vard) \n\n Date: Wednesday\, December 7\, 2011\n Time: 11:30 am\n Locatio n: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard University\n\n Though Xinjiang (literarily the “New Dominion”) was incorporated into China ’s territory permanently in mid-18th century during Emperor Qianlong’s reign\, Jiayu Guan (嘉峪关) still marked a boundary between Xinjiang and China proper\, much like Yang Guan (阳关) and Yumen Guan (玉 门关) in the Han and Tang dynasties. Such a boundary was infused with cu ltural meaning since ancient times: it separated different cultures\, and territories beyond the pass should accordingly not be regarded as part of China. This understanding of cultural boundaries deeply influenced Han Chi nese officials and intellectuals\; no wonder few Han Chinese supported the Qing emperors’ military plans in Xinjiang during the conquest. Even aft er the Qing conquest of Xinjiang\, such conceptions remained relevant and fueled controversy over Xinjiang\, lasting to the end of Qing dynasty and even to the Republic. However\, these ideas gradually weakened over time\, resulting in the re-conquest of Xinjiang during the 1860s and 1870s by Zu o Zongtang (左宗棠)\, a Han Chinese\, the establishment of Xinjiang pro vince in 1884\, and the swift development of Xinjiang-studies during the G uangxu reign period (1875-1908). Indeed\, the place of Xinjiang in Han Chi nese intellectuals’ imagination had changed significantly\, and this cha nge played a key role in the final formation of modern China’s boundarie s.\n\n\n Reshaping Collective Consciousness Towards Trauma: Hebrew and Chi nese Narrative on the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre (1960-1980)\n\n C o-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Fairbank Center for C hinese Studies\n\n Zhong Zhiqing (Literature\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)\n Discussants: Prof. David Wang  (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, EALC\, Harvard) a nd Prof. Ruth Wisse (Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and P rofessor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University)\n\n Date: Wednesd ay\, November 30\, 2011\n Time: 12:00 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\ , 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard University\n\n This presentation will survey h ow historical trauma such as the Holocaust and Nanking Massacre was transf erred into Hebrew and Chinese national literatures in post-Holocaust and p ost-Nanking Massacre periods. The focus will be on how literature function s in reconstructing national past and reshaping collective consciousness t hrough viewing the relevant novels from the early 1960s to 1980s created b y the authors who appeared on the literary scene starting from the 1960s.\ n\n\n Politics of Life and Science: The Introduction of Hans Driesch’s V italist Biology and Philosophy to Post-WWI China\n\n Co-sponsored by the F airbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n Kevin Chang (History\, Academia Si nica\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)\n Discussant: Prof. William C. Kirby  (T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University and Spangle r Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School)\n \n Date: Wednesday\, November 9\, 2011\n Time: 12:00 pm\n Location: Yenchi ng Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n Infected by the pess imism about Western Civilization and the value of science and technology t hat resulted from the destructive First World War\, leading Chinese intell ectuals started a debate about the limit and validity of science. One side of the debate asserted that there were subjective realms in human life th at were not subject to scientific rule. The other side charged that the sk epticism about science and the Western civilization would further delay Ch ina from embracing modernization. Both sides consisted of reform-minded in tellectuals\, and both resorted to Western authorities in science\, philos ophy and political institutions\, including the model recently introduced by the Bolshevik Revolution.\n\n Hans Driesch was noted in Europe and the US for his discovery in embryology and his vitalist philosophy that assert ed the fundamental difference between the living organism and inorganic su bstances or machines. His stature in experimental biology lent him particu lar credibility in his assertions about science and life. His vitalism was used by his Chinese advocates to maintain that mechanical science could g overn everything\, not least human life. His Western origin served as a cr edential against the domestic proponents for the unlimited validity of Wes tern science. He was among the international intellectual heavyweights--Be rtrand Russell\, John Dewey\, and Tagore included--who were invited to and indeed visited China in the early 1920s.\n\n This talk looks at the intro duction of Driesch’s work and its different reactions in early 20th-cent ury China in the global context in which political and scientific ideas we re brought into action.\n\n\n Segmented Incorporation: The Second Generati on of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Shanghai\n\n Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n Lan Pei-chia (Dept. of Sociology\, Nation al Taiwan University\; Radcliffe Fellow in Residence and HYI Visiting Scho lar 2011-12)\n Discussant: Prof. Martin Whyte (Sociology\, Harvard Unive rsity)\n\n Date: Thursday\, October 27\, 2011\n Time: 12:00 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n Based on in-d epth interviews conducted in Shanghai\, Lan examines how second-generation rural migrants in urban China experience spatial\, social segregation and channeling effects in the receiving context of education. Lan argues that the case of Shanghai characterizes a new regime of “segmented incorpora tion.” Hukou (household registration) is still a crucial social bounda ry embedded in educational institutions\, shaping uneven distribution of e ducational resources and opportunities as well as hierarchical recognition of differences between urban citizens and rural migrants. Systematic excl usion has given way to more subtle forms of institutional segmentation and channeling\, reproducing cultural prejudices and reinforcing group differ entiation.\n\n\n New Perspectives on Chinese Art -- An Auspicious Thing: T he Bronze Tripod in the Eye of a Diviner\n\n Jointly sponsored by the Harv ard-Yenching Institute and the Fairbank Center\n\n Tao Wang\, University C ollege London\n\n Date: Tuesday\, October 25\, 2011\n Time: 5:00 pm                                  \n Location: CG IS South\, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Harvard University\n\n Professor Wang will examine a divinatory text in the Zhou Yi (Book of Changes)\, in which the bronze tripod ding was described and u sed as a metaphor\, and he will highlight the close link between the text and the real objects. For more details\, go to:http://fairbank.fas.harvard .edu/event/tao-wang\n\n\n Constructing National Forms in 20th century Chin a: Visuality\, Aesthetics and Literature\n\n A panel held at the New Engla nd Asia Studies Association (AAS)\n\n Date: Sunday\, October 23\, 2011\n T ime: 10:45 am - 12:45 pm\n Location: Pendleton West Room 117\, Wellesley C ampus\, Wellesley\, MA\n\n Panel organizer: Dr. Tang Hongfeng\n\n Panelis ts: Tang Hongfeng\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\n Ji Xiaoqian\, University of Pittsburgh\n Xia Fan\, Columbia University\n Lang Jin\, University of M assachusetts\n Chen Si\, Harvard University\n\n Discussant: Song Mingwei\, Wellesley College\n\n More information about the conference: http://web. wellesley.edu/web/Info/NEAAS\n\n\n Sociological Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Social Issues\n\n A lecture series co-sponsored by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Ho Chi Minh City and the Harvard-Yenc hing Institute\n\n Date: October 3-8\, 2011 (morning and afternoon sessio ns)\n Location: The University of Social Sciences and Humanities\, Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam\n\n Due to their specific historical\, cultural and s ocio-political backgrounds\, contemporary Chinese and Vietnamese societies share a number of social issues in common. Boundary-crossing sociological approaches can help to understand these social issues within national\, r egional\, and global contexts. The final session of the lecture series wil l consist of a roundtable discussion between Chinese and Vietnamese schola rs.\n\n\n Women Playing Men: Same-Sex Relations in Republican Shanghai\n\n Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n Jiang Jin (D ept. of History\, East China Normal University\; Radcliffe Fellow in Resid ence and HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)\n Discussant: Prof. Elizabeth Perr y (Government Department\, Harvard University\; Director\, Harvard-Yenchi ng Institute)\n\n Date: Wednesday\, October 5\, 2011\n Time: 12:00 pm\n Lo cation: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n Althou gh we have pretty good knowledge about the homoerotic and homosocial world of Beijing opera of the late Qing\, we know very little about the same-se x culture of women’s Yue opera that flourished in Republican Shanghai. T his talk looks at the homosexual aspects in women’s Yue opera against th e background of the general Republican reformation of sex and gender relat ions. By juxtaposing the opera’s stage representations of heterosexual l ove by the same-sex cast with the off-stage homoerotic and homosocial rela tionships within women's opera circles\, we will explore a spectrum of pos sibilities for women in Republican-era Shanghai.\n\n\n International Confe rence on the Prehistory of the Tibetan Plateau\n\n Organized jointly by th e Center for Tibetan Studies of Sichuan University and the Institute of Ve rtebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Scie nces\, and funded by Harvard-Yenching Institute and Center for Tibetan Stu dies of Sichuan University.\n\n Date: August 21-24\, 2011\n Location: Sich uan University\, China\n \n The Tibetan Plateau is one of the most challen ging areas for human life\, and also a region little understood by modern archaeology. Despite a series of explorations in recent decades\, politica l and linguistic barriers make academic exchange extremely difficult. Ther efore\, the purpose of this international conference is to pull together c urrent research focused on the prehistory of the Tibetan Plateau. Through this gathering we hope to provide a forum for direct exchange between scho lars that crosses national\, ethnic and political boundaries. We are espec ially interested to include research from Nepali\, Pakistani\, and Indian archaeologists and thereby build a foundation for future cooperation among the participants.\n\n For more information\, please contact Prof. Lu Hong liang (scottscu@gmail.com) or Prof. Li Yongxian (yongxianli212@hotmail.com ).\n\n To view the conference report\, please click here.\n\n\n Social St ratification and Mobility in China:Urban Migration and Growth of the Middl e Class\n\n A Training Program organized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute \; China Studies Center\, University  of Sydney\; The Center for Modern C hina Studies\, Nanjing University\; and the Department of History\, Nanjin g Univeristy\n \n Location: Nanjing University\n Dates: June 16 - 30\, 201 1\n\n For additional information\, please visit: http://wxy.seu.edu.cn/hu manities/sociology/article.asp?M_ID=37&A_ID=5005\n\n\n Creative Forms of P ublic Participation in China: From Everyday Politics to Media Agendas\n\n A workshop sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\n Date: Saturday\ , June 4 and Sunday\, June 5\, 2011\n Time: 9-5 pm (Saturday)\, 9:30-12 pm (Sunday)\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\n\n China h as often been considered to be a country that has enjoyed rapid economic g rowth while suffering from very strict political constraints. Yet in recen t years\, many creative forms of public participation have emerged\, espec ially from the grassroots level\, which include not only significant media agendas but also everyday politics in rural and urban life. A fragile\, n ascent civil society and other various social players are now actively int eracting with the state. Sometimes\, they even successfully change the sta te's policy-making process.\n\n How can we understand these creative forms of public participation in China? Who are the emerging players? What stra tegies and discourses are they using to mobilize public participation and promote policy pluralization? And what are the political potentials and li mitations of these creative forms?\n\n This workshop brings together schol ars from different disciplinary backgrounds. Based on empirical research\, it aims not only to illustrate new patterns of public participation and c ivil society development\, but also to trace their impacts on the  politi cal institutions in a country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy\, and from administrative vertical integration to social ho rizontal solidarity.\n \n Workshop Program\n\n\n Asian women and education : Asian\, European and Other Perspectives\n\n Hosted by the Vietnam Instit ute for European Studies\n Co-sponsored by the Vietnamese Academy of Socia l Sciences and the Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\n Date: June 3-4\, 2011\n Location: Institute of History\, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences\, 1 Lieu Giai\, Ba Dinh\, Ha Noi\n\n The workshop is a chance for scholars from Asia (Vietnam\, China\, Hongkong\, Korea\, Japan)\, Europe (Denmark\, France\, Russia) and America to discuss issues related to Asian women and education in historical\, sociological\, gender\, ethnical and religious perspectives. The workshop aims at seeking answers for questions:\n -     How did Asian women access education/learning in the past and how can t hey at present?\n -    Can education change and improve women’s lives in modern Asia? Can educated women change their economic\, social\, polit ical status?\n\n Contact: tranphhoa@yahoo.com\n\n\n Social Assistance in Urban China and its Effects\n\n Zhou Fenghua (Dept. of Public Policy\, Hu azhong Normal University\; HYI Grassroots Program Visiting Scholar 2010-11 )\n Discussant: Professor Nara Dillon (Government\, Harvard University)\ n\n Date: Wednesday\, May 18\, 2011\n Time: 12:00 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n This talk will first give a broad view o f the development of the major social assistance scheme—the dibao prog ram—in urban China\, and then analyze its features in design and impleme ntation. It is argued that\, although this poverty-reduction program works well in terms of targeting the poor\, it actually aggravates gender\, reg ional and rural-urban inequality due to its drawbacks in design and implem entation. In the long run\, the program hampers the truly disadvantaged to lift themselves from poverty.  The implications of the dibao program a nd its implementation for family structure\, social solidarity\, and the l egitimacy of the state are also discussed in the talk.\n\n\n Japan in Cris is: From Aftershock to Aftercare\n\n Date: Friday\, May 13 and Saturday\, May 14\, 2011\n Time: 9:30-5:00 pm (Friday)\, 2-4:30 pm (Saturday)\n Locat ion: Room 105\, William James Hall\, Harvard University\n\n The Heisei Era in Japan so far has experienced numerous crises on different dimensions\, ranging from political\, financial\, and social turmoil to natural disast ers\, as if it has inherited the turbulence of the eventful Showa history. In the face of calamity\, however\, the Japanese people have always amaze d the world with their extreme resilience and stoicism. It has been genera lly suggested that the Japanese people are impressively responsive to disa sters\, given their all too frequent experience of calamity in an island c ountry. Although it is still too soon to comment on whether the recent cat astrophe caused by the 3/11 Earthquake would be able to push the nation to change\, it at least provides a good opportunity to re-examine the variou s crises that have haunted the modern Japan\, and explore how the Japanese people have sought different ways of aftercare and overcoming the aftersh ocks. This workshop therefore aims to revisit both natural and man-made di sasters from Meiji to Heisei\, in order to investigate how Japanese reacte d to or overcame these crises\, and how these crises have shaped Japan’s national psyche and individual minds.\n\n Conference website: http://www .kinnia.com/hyiworkshop2011\n\n\n Connections are Not Always Corruption: V ertical Ties and Civic Participation in Rural China\n\n Jointly sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard-Yenching Instit ute\n\n Lily Tsai (Associate Professor of Political Science\, Massachuset ts Institute of Technology)\n\n Date: Monday\, May 9\, 2011\n Time: 4:15 pm\n Location: CGIS South\, Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room (S030)\, 173 0 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n Having “connections” to govern ment officials is typically equated with the ability to pursue one’s int erests through informal\, and often illicit\, channels.   If someone men tions that they “know someone” who works in government\, we often assu me that they have the kind of informal access to power and resources that\ , in the extreme\, fall in the realm of cronyism\, clientelism\, and corru ption.  This paper argues\, however\, that our current understanding of v ertical ties between citizens and officials may be too simplistic.  Inste ad\, vertical ties to government officials can be a valuable resource for civic participation concerned with public issues as well as for clientelis tic activity motivated by particularistic concerns.  Particularly in tran sitional systems\, vertical ties to government officials can provide polit ical information and support that helps to overcome the risks and uncertai nties of voicing one’s opinions in contexts where democratic institution s are unstable and the right to participate is insecure.  This paper draw s on evidence from survey data on villagers in China to show that individu als who have vertical ties with higher-level officials are (1) just as lik ely as or more than individuals without these ties to express civic attitu des and support for democratic reforms and (2) more likely than individual s without these ties to participate in ways that make their concerns known to the government.\n\n\n Staging the Modern: Theatre\, Intermediality\, a nd Chinese Drama\n\n Cosponsored with the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n Date: May 6-7\, 2011 (Friday afternoon\, full day Saturday)\ n Location: CGIS South Building Room S050\, Harvard University\n\n Organi zers: Professor David Der-wei Wang\, Tarryn Chun\n\n More information: ht tp://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/staging-modern-theatre-intermediality- and-chinese-drama\n\n\n How Ecology is Forgotten During the Process of Eco logical Relocation: A Case Study of S Banner in Inner Mongolia from a Soci ological Perspective\n\n Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n \n Bao Zhiming (Department of Sociology\, Minzu University of China\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)\n Discussant: Professor Mark Elliot t\, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Departmen t of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\n \n Date : Tuesday\, April 19\, 2011\n Time: 11:00 am\n Location: Yenching Common R oom\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n \n Based on fieldwork carried out in Inner Mongoli a’s S Banner region\, Professor Bao’s study reveals that the implement ation of ecological relocation policy is a social process involving the pa rticipation of multiple social agents including the central government\, l ocal governments\, market elites\, farmers and herdsmen. Their complicated interaction embodies the nexus of power and interests between government\ , the market and local people. Local governments occupy a central position in the relationship network which forms during the process and their conf licting dual roles of “agent political operator” and “profit-seeking political operator” causes great uncertainty for the direction of top-d own government-led environmental policy.\n\n\n Neighborhood Governance in Urban Taiwan: Democratic Deepening in the Roots of the State\n\n Benjamin Read (Assistant professor of politics at the University of California\, S anta Cruz)\n\n Jointly sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studie s and the Harvard-Yenching Institute.\n\n Date: Monday\, April 18\, 2011\ n Time: 4:15pm\n Location: S050\, CGIS South Building\, 1730 Cambridge S t.\n\n Taiwan's system of neighborhood-level governance has origins in ins titutions of social control employed by both the Republican-era Kuomintang and the Japanese colonizers. In more recent times\, its local agents have been known for buying votes on behalf of politicians and mobilizing const ituents in exchange for patronage. Yet over the past 25 years\, elections for the "borough wardens" have become hotly contested\, voter turnout has risen to remarkably high rates\, and KMT dominance has given way to politi cal pluralization. Neighborhood leaders of a new generation\, with more wo men in their ranks than ever before\, have taken on new roles and have dif ferent relationships with their communities\, parties\, and city governmen ts compared to those of the older\, often clan-based bosses. Drawing on et hnographic research\, interviews\, opinion surveys\, public records\, and other sources\, Professor Read argues that the evolution of Taiwan's neigh borhood organizati ons has deepened democratic practices at the grassroots level\, even though they remain a highly statist institution.\n\n For mor e information\, please visit http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/calendar/upc oming\n\n\n Information technology and Public Protest in China\n\n (信 息技术与中国民众的抗议行为)\n\n Dr. Yu Jianrong (Professor and Director of the Rural Development Institute’s Social Issues Research Center\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)\n\n Jointly sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard-Yenching Insititute\n \n Please note: this talk will be conducted in Chinese\n\n 于建嵘教授 在这一演讲中试 图回答这么一个问题，即在目前信息技 术革命背景下，中国民众的抗议行为是否发生了变化， 并且这种变化将对中国政治发展产生何种影响。于教授 借此机会与大家 探讨，在网络时代，中国政治是否有一 条新的发展道路，并将如何利用互联网和新科技作为重 构中国政治的力量。\n\n Date: Friday\, April 15\, 2011\n Time: 12: 00 noon -- 2:00 p.m\n Location: Room S250\, CGIS\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Harvard University\n\n\n Out of Place: The New Woman and Chinese Cinema\n \n Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n Mao Jian ( East China Normal University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)\n Discussant: Prof. David Der-wei Wang\, EALC\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Thursday \, April 14\, 2011\n Time: 12:15 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n This is a study of the relationship between young women and the long Chinese revolution as portrayed on screen. From "revolution plus beauty" to "The Red Detachment of Women"\, from the "New Woman" to th e "New Revolutionary Artist"\, from "the barefoot doctor" to "the bad fema le cadre"\, this talk\, centering on Ruan Lingyu's and Xie Jin's films\, a ttempts a typology of female characters by comparing young women character s from the left cinema of the thirties and forties with those of the socia list and post-socialist eras.\n\n\n Nation as an "Imagined" and "Melanchol y" Community: Folklore and Ambivalent Cultural Unity in William Butler Yea ts and Sowol Kim\n\n Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute\n\n Yoon Il Hwan  (Pusan National University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)\n Discussant: Prof. David McCann\, EALC\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Wednesday\, Ap ril 6\, 2011\n Time: 12:00 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divin ity Ave.\n\n This talk aims to examine the ambivalent relationship between nationalism and myth and folklore in the works of William Butler Yeats(18 65-1939) and Sowol Kim(1902-1934)\, one of Korea's most beloved and well-k nown poets. Drawing upon a varied range of materials from their poems\, pr ose\, essays\, and letters\, it attempts to demonstrate two distinct inter plays between folklore and national consciousness. Under the yoke of colon ization\, both Yeats and Sowol sought after the link between literature an d national identity\, and found in myth\, folklore\, and symbolic landscap e a subject ideally suited to express their respective efforts towards dis covering a national character and spiritual foundation. Prof. Yoon argues that in regards to national identities Yeats substantially relies on the o peration of a comprehensive and coherent system of symbols in folklore\, a s opposed to Sowol who struggles to create a core of national identity\, d espite keenly recognizing the absence of any master symbol in folklore to forge national identity. Yeats favors folklore imbued with spiritual power and creates Ireland as an "imagined community." Sowol\, conceiving a sens e of spiritual deprivation in folklore\, substantially locates the nation' s suffering under colonial state and paradoxically animates national spiri t. While both poets try to create a cultural nexus around which various fo rces can congeal to resist colonialism\, they also offer violent and irres olvable conflict behind such a nexus. Their assumption of a national ident ity does not fall into a national essentialism\; their turn to folklore an d symbolic landscape for nationalism contains ambivalent struggle between their efforts at cultural unity and the uncontainable problems of modernit y\, nation\, community\, and the role of culture in nationalism. To illust rate this ambivalence\, Prof. Yoon adopts a few ideas from Benedict Anders on's "imagined community\," Sigmund Freud's melancholy\, and Jean-Luc Nanc y's "the unsacrificeable."\n\n\n HYI Reception at The Association for Asia n Studies Annual Meeting\n\n Date: Friday\, April 1\, 2011 \n Time: 7:3 0 pm – 9:30 pm \n Location: Room 317B\, Hawaii Convention Center\, 180 1 Kalakaua Avenue\, Honolulu\, HI\n\n Every year in the spring\, the Assoc iation for Asian Studies (AAS) holds its annual four-day conference devote d to planned programs of scholarly papers\, round table discussions and pa nel sessions on a wide range of issues in research and teaching\, and on A sian affairs in general. The conference is one of the most important annua l scholarly events in Asian Studies. The HYI will host a reception at the meeting. The reception is an excellent opportunity for meeting other schol ars as well as learning about new programs and opportunities at HYI.\n\n\n Jawaharlal Nehru and China: A Study in Failure\, or Misrecognition?\n\n C o-sponsored by the South Asia Initiative\n\n Ramachandra Guha\n\n Date: T uesday\, March 29\, 2011\n Time: 4:30 pm\n Location: Tsai Auditorium\, C GIS South\, Harvard University\n\n As both Prime Minister and External Aff airs Minister of India\, Jawaharlal Nehru closely directed his country's f oreign policy in the crucial years after independence. In this period\, In dia's relations with China moved from friendship to hostility\, culminatin g in the war of 1962 in which Chinese troops put to flight their Indian co unterparts. That military fiasco deeply damaged Nehru's standing and may h ave hastened his death. Within India\, Nehru's China policy is widely rega rded as his greatest failure. This lecture will argue that while Nehru und eniably made major errors of judgement\, the conflict is best viewed in st ructural rather than personal terms\, as emanating from the simultaneous e mergence of two ambitious nationalisms which\, as they expanded outwards\, met and clashed on their contested borders.\n\n For a bio of Ramachandra Guha\, click here\n\n\n Asian Varieties of Socialism: China\, India\, Vie tnam\n\n Co-sponsored by HYI & the Harvard Asia Center\n\n Organized by th e Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\n Date: Monday\, March 28\, 2011\n Time:  4:00 - 6:00 pm\n Location: Lower Level Conference Room\, Busch Hall/Cente r for European Studies\, 27 Kirkland St.\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n These days t he rapidly rising nations of China and India are often contrasted as examp les of "authoritarian" versus "democratic" paths of (capitalist or quasi-c apitalist) development. But when their current political systems were firs t established\, some sixty years ago\, leaders in both countries were stro ngly attracted by the promises of socialism. The same was true of the reun ified Vietnam in 1976\, which – like China and India – subsequently em barked upon an impressive economic reform program. What did these various countries initially find so appealing about socialism? To what extent did their interpretations reflect Asian\, as opposed to European\, experiences and values? And what influence\, if any\, do such socialist legacies exer t on contemporary practices in the three countries?\n\n This roundtable br ings together an inter-disciplinary group of distinguished international s cholars and public intellectuals – based in India\, Hong Kong\, Singapor e and the US -- to offer their perspectives on these complex questions.\n\ n\n Perception of the Past and Reflection of the Present: World War II on Japanese\, American and East Asian Screens\n\n Co-sponsored by the Reischa uer Institute of Japanese Studies\n\n Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting (Chinese Unive rsity of Hong Kong\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)\n Discussant: Professor  Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History\, Harvar d University\n\n Date: Wednesday\, March 23\, 2011\n Time: 12:00-1:30 pm \n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n More than half a century has passed since the end of the Second World War. While there are worries that the series of events are going to be forgotten\, we are actua lly more aware of the fact that the war is still being reconstructed and t ransformed by filmmakers\, provoking widespread discussion and controversy . This presentation aims to examine how Japan\, the United States and othe r East Asian regions such as China\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan and South Korea ha ve presented WWII in their movies since the 1990s\, and to investigate how politics influences the representation and dissemination of popular cultu re.\n\n\n Literary Theories and their Application: A Lecture Series\n\n C o-organized by the Vietnam Institute of Literature and the Harvard-Yenchin g Institute\n Co-sponsored by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and t he Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\n Date: March 16-19 (mornings and afterno ons)\, 2011\n Time: Mornings 8:30 - 11:30 am\; Afternoons 1:30 - 4:30 pm\ n Location: Vietnam Institute of Literature\, 20 Ly Thai To Street\, Hoan Kiem District\, Hanoi\, Vietnam\n\n This series of lectures will take pla ce after the March 14-15 workshop\, providing its participants with in-dep th knowledge of specific issues in the field of literary studies (or compa rative literature). Harvard University Professors Stephen Owen\, David Dam rosch\, and Karen L. Thornber will participate. The lectures will furnish young researchers\, who are the majority in Vietnamese research institutes and universities but have not had a chance to study overseas\, with excel lent opportunities to approach new knowledge.\n\n For more information\, p lease contact haiyenti@yahoo.com\n\n\n Functional categories in Korean ag rammatism\n\n Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute\n\n Lee Miseon (Departm ent of English Language and Literature\, Hanyang University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)\n Discussant: Professor Jesse Snedeker (John L. Loeb A ssociate Professor\, Department of Psychology\, Harvard University)\n\n Da te: Wednesday\, March 16\, 2011 \n Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n Location: Y enching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n This talk will review experiment al data from Korean-speaking patients with agrammatism and a theoretical i nterpretation. After a brief introduction to agrammatism and the Korean la nguage\, Professor Lee's talk will focus on Korean agrammatic patients' us e and understanding of functional categories (i.e.\, sentence enders\, ten se markers\, and complementizers).\n\n\n [Pre]Modern Asian Literature Read through Modern Western Theories: Applications\, [In]Compatibilities\, Cha llenges\, and Opportunities\n\n Organized by Vietnam Institute of Literatu re\, Co-sponsored by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences\, the Harvard -Yenching Institute\, and the Japan Foundation\n\n Date: March 14-15\, 20 11\n Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm\n Location: Vietnam Academy of Social Scien ces\, Hall #3D\, 1 Lieu Giai Street\, Ba Dinh District\, Hanoi\, Vietnam\n \n Workshop Objectives: Since the last century\, literary studies in Vietn am have received\, adopted\, and applied Western theories and methods to r econstruct and interpret national cultural and humanistic values on the on e hand\, and to introduce and approach world literature on the other hand. However\, reviewing the long road that we\, Vietnamese literature scholar s\, have traveled\, and broadening our view toward an international pictur e of the field\, we find our approaches and applications entailing a serie s of questions: At which levels have Western theories been introduced into Vietnam? Is this introduction reasonable and sufficient? How should we re ceive and apply Western theories as efficient tools to explore and underst and Eastern literary bodies\, such as Vietnamese literature? (in other wor ds\, how (in)compatible are Western theories in the study of Eastern liter ature?) Are there any limits or shortcomings in such applications and appr oaches? What experiences and lessons should Vietnamese literat ure scholar s learn from their Chinese\, Japanese\, and Korean counterparts\, when car rying out their Western-theory based literary research? The workshop will serve as a forum to discuss case studies on specific premodern and modern East Asian literary works in the light of Western theories. Organizing the workshop in this line\, we hope to balance its practical and theoretical aspects. Findings and conclusions drawn from the "close readings" of these case studies will surely enrich the applied theories and provide inspirin g research models for future practices.\n\n In efforts to bring the curren t state of Vietnam's literary studies up to regional and international lev els\, the Vietnam Institute of Literature has endeavored to introduce West ern theories (in Vietnamese translations) to the circle of Vietnamese lite rary scholars (for example\, the two-volume set Western Literary Theory an d Criticism of the 20th Century published in 2007). The recent publication  Literary Study in Vietnam: Possibilities and Challenges (funded by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, 2009) is also in line with our search for com patibilities between Western theories as research approaches and Eastern ( or Vietnamese) literature as research objects.\n\n For more information\, please contact haiyenti@yahoo.com\n\n\n Reinterpreting Liang Shuming's Co nception of Confucian Responsibility\n\n Gu Hongliang (Department of Phil osophy\, East China Normal University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)\n Di scussant: Michael Puett (Professor of Chinese History\, East Asian Langu ages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n\n Date: Wednesday\, March 9\, 2011\n Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Di vinity Ave.\n\n How are we to understand the idea of Confucian responsibil ity in modern China? Liang Shuming\, a forerunner of the twentieth-century New Confucian Movement\, offers a unique perspective regarding this issue . This talk aims to evaluate Liang's conception of responsibility in terms of a relationality that focuses on three dimensions of responsibility in his Confucianism. In so doing\, we can come to see the complexity of Confu cian responsibility. This talk also seeks to examine Liang in comparison t o Emmanuel Levinas so as to enrich our understanding of these thinkers and their thoughts on the ethics of responsibility.\n\n\n Islam in a Cross-Cu ltural Zone: Notes on Rev. Carter Holton's Photos in the Gansu-Tibetan Reg ion\n\n Wang Jianping (Department of Philosophy\, Shanghai Normal Univers ity\; HYI Coordinate Researcher)\n\n Date: Wednesday\, March 2\, 2011\n T ime: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\ n\n The Tibetan plateau by the up-reach of the Yellow River is a land of v ast ethnic-racial\, religious\, social and economic diversity. Central Asi an Muslims migrated into the region in the 13th century. Turkic Salars int eracted with the Tibetans\, Mongols\, Han Chinese\, Tus\, and the Uighurs\ , Hui\, Dongxiang and Bao'an Muslims have developed a hybrid complicated s ocial-culture pattern. Regional Islam and Muslims have expanded into an ex tremely coherent Islamic communal structure\, resulting in a hotbed of Isl amic resurgence in northwest China. Pressured by external and internal env ironments\, the people of this land have witnessed frequent arbitrary inte rference from inland China\, Muslim insurgences\, political turmoil\, warl ords' fighting\, social riots\, looting\, famines and inter-ethnic massacr es. The photos of Muslims in Xunhua and Linxia\, taken by the American mis sionary Rev. Carter D. Holton\, provide a recording of the tremendous vibr ations in the spheres of religion\, society\, politics\, economics and cul ture during the period of the Republic. They also illustrate a dynamic rel ationship between the local Muslims and the different forces from within a nd without.\n\n\n A Strange Encounter: "Blackness" and Postcoloniality in Korean Literature and Culture\n\n Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute\n\n An Jee Hyun (Associate Professor of English Literature at Seoul National University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)\n Discussant: Professor Karen Thornber (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard Univers ity)\n\n Date: Thursday\, February 24\, 2011\n Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm\ n Location: Yenching Common Room\n\n This talk will examine the racial re presentations of African Americans in a subgenre of Korean literature grou ped under a loose rubric calledgijichon (military camptown) literature\, and also in popular culture. Based on close textual analyses of racial rep resentations in Song Byoung Soo's "Shori Kim" (1957)\, Cho Hae Il's "Ameri ca" (1972)\, Lee Moon Koo's "Haebyuk" (1974)\, Kang Suk Kyoung's short sto ries and finally Moon Soon Tae's "Moonshineuh Ttang" (1987)\, Professor An will discuss the significance of "blackness" and the ways in which racial ized postcolonial subjectivity are negotiated in these textual representat ions. Going beyond identifications of racist depictions and portrayals of African Americans\, Professor An will argue that these racist representati ons reveal an emergence of a complicated postcolonial subjectivity as the US presence looms over the Korean peninsula.\n\n\n Campaign Finance Regula tions and Their Role of Consolidating a Representative Democracy: Evidence from the American States\n\n Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute\n\n Kiho ng Eom (Department of Political Science and Diplomacy\, Kyungpook Nationa l University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)\n Discussant: Professor Jame s Alt (Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government\, Harvard University)\n\n Date: Thursday\, February 17\, 2011\n Location: Yenching Common Room\n Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm\n\n Do campaign finance regulations help a repre sentative democracy consolidate? The rationale of campaign finance regulat ions is to reduce political corruption\, or at least the perception of pol itical corruption\, thereby reinforcing the level of trust and participati on in a representative democracy. After a brief review of political corrup tion literature\, Professor Eom will theorize how campaign finance regulat ions work on political corruption and the assumptions of a representative democracy. After providing the preliminary results of analyses in the Amer ican states\, he will conclude the talk with a discussion of the future di rection of his research.\n\n\n Booming Associational Cooperation and the D evelopment of Civil Society in China\n\n Gao Bingzhong (Sociology\, Pekin g University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)\n Discussant: Elizabeth Perr y\, Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Go vernment\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Tuesday\, January 25\, 2011\n Loc ation: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n Time: 12:00 pm\n\n By pa ying attention to cooperation between and among NPOs\, instead of asking q uestions such as 'how many NPOs exist' and 'how do they legitimize their e xistence and activities'\, we see a different landscape of Chinese civil s ociety. This talk will present recent cooperation in Chinese NPOs\, such a s\, the event against dam construction in Nujiang (反对怒江建坝) and the New Citizen project（新公民计划）. Professor Gao will then dis cuss how these horizontal links are important for Chinese civil society.\n \n\n Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition\n\n Date: Wednesday\, Dece mber 1\, 2010\n Conference website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~eaah/conf erences/fresh_ink/introduction.html\n\n\n Research on Local Social Structu re under Urbanization: Ethnographical Research in Xiqiao Town\, Pearl Rive r Delta\n\n Yang Xiaoliu (Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Sun Yat-s en University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)\n Discussant: Professor Mi chael Herzfeld\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University\n\n Date:  Wednesday\, December 1\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 pm\n Location: Yenching Co mmon Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n Talk synopsis: The Pearl River Delta is on e of the most developed and financially active regions of China. Prof. Yan g's research looks for new explanations of the process of urbanization in the region based on her anthropological background. She has conducted fiel dwork in the town of Xiqiao in Foshan\, a town famous for its textile indu stry since the Ming and Qing Dynasty. Her research aims to review urban ch ange in Xiqiao during the 30 plus years of reform and opening up\, and to reveal the interactive relationship between Xiqiao's economic development and social structure change. Prof. Yang will mainly focus on the local str ucture under urbanization in order to present the complex changes that hav e occurred in Xiqiao and to trace the integration of local people.\n\n\n P easants\, the Village World\, and Beyond: The Living Space of a Peasant Fa mily in Late Qing Huizhou\, Middle China\, 1838-1901\n\n Liu Yonghua (Pro fessor of History\, Xiamen University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)\n Di scussant: Professor Michael Szonyi\, East Asian Languages and Civilizatio ns\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Wednesday\, November 17\, 2010\n Time:  12:00 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n Until r ecently the common image of late imperial Chinese peasantry is that their world was principally village bound\, with little connection to the world beyond their villages and neighboring market towns. To what extent does th is image fit historical reality? How were Chinese peasantry connected to d istant villages\, market towns\, and sacred sites? How did socio-economic changes in the nineteenth century transform their living space? Based on a close reading of a group of diary-like documents penned by a peasant fami ly in late Qing Huizhou\, Professor Liu Yonghua will map out the living sp ace of the peasant family and reconstruct the transformation it participat ed and experienced during the late nineteenth century.\n\n\n New Direction s in the Study of Chinese Drama\n\n Date: Wednesday November 10\, 2010\n Time: 9:00am-5:00pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n \n This workshop brings together prominent scholars from Mainland China\, Taiwan\, and the United States to discuss their latest research projects a nd new methods for the study of Chinese drama\, both traditional and moder n.\n\n Speakers include: Bao Weihong 包卫红(Fairbank Center An Wang Pos tdoctoral Fellow\, Columbia University)\, Chen Fang 陳芳 (National Taiwa n Normal University)\, Cheng Yun 程芸 (EALC Visiting Scholar\, Wuhan Uni versity)\, Huang Lin 黃霖 (Fudan University)\, Huo Jianyu (EALC Visiting Scholar)\, Lin Hong Lam (Fairbank Center An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow\, Va nderbilt University)\, Liu Zhen 劉禎 (China Art Academy\, Beijing)\, Wan g Ayling 王璦玲 (Academia Sinica)\, Tsai Hsin-hsin 蔡欣欣 (Fulbright Scholar\, National Cheng-chi University\, Taipei)\, Tseng Yong-yih 曾永 義 (Shih-hsin University\, Taipei)\, Ye Changhai 業長海 (Shanghai Acad emy of Theater)\, and Zhao Shanlin 趙山林 (Emeritus\, East China Normal University).\n\n Most papers will be presented in Chinese.\n\n For more i nformation and a detailed schedule\, please visit the workshop website at:  http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k75571\n\n Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, th e Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, and the CCK Found ation Inter-University Center for Sinology.\n\n Please contact Tarryn Chun (tchun@fas.harvard.edu) with questions.\n\n\n “We the People” and the Post-1945 Constitutional Founding in Asia: A Comparative Perspective\n\n An international workshop co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\n \n Date: October 29-30\, 2010\n Location: Netherlands Institute for Advanc ed Study\, The Hague\, Netherlands\n\n Click here to read a report from t he workshop.\n\n\n Kantian Cosmopolitanism\n\n Co-sponsored by the Asia Ce nter\n\n Qu Hongmei (Associate Professor\, Dept. of Philosophy\, Jilin Un iversity\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2010-11)\n Discussant: Christine M. Korsg aard\, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy\, Harvard University \n\n Date: Thursday\, October 28\n Time: 12:00 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Asia Without Borders: a Workshop\n\n D ate: October 8-10\, 2010\n Location: Yonsei University\, Seoul\, Korea\n \n\n Grammaticalization in Japanese\n\n Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Ins titute\n\n Heiko Narrog (Linguistics\, Tohoku University\; HYI Visiting S cholar 2010-11)\n Discussants: Professor James Huang\, Linguistics\, Har vard University and Professor Emeritus Susumu Kuno\, Linguistics\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Wednesday\, September 29\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 pm  \n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Exploring the A ncient Ba-Shu Relationship from the Perspective of World-System Theory\n\n Co-sponsored by The East Asia Archaeology Seminar Series and The Harvard- Yenching Institute\n\n Chen Pochan\, National Taiwan University\, HYI Visi ting Scholar 2010-11\n\n Date: Friday\, September 17\, 2010\n Time: 12:0 0 pm\n Location: Peabody Room (14A)\, Peabody Museum\n\n\n Burmese Lives: Ordinary Life Stories under the Burmese Regime\n\n Organized by Wen-Chin Chang (Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan) an d Eric Tagliacozzo (Department of History\, Cornell University\, USA)\, an d co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Center for Asia-P acific Area Studies\, Academia Sinica\n\n Date: June 4-5\, 2010\n Time:  9 am - 5 pm (June 4)\, 9 am - 12:30 pm (June 5)\n Location:Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard University\n\n This conference will gath er together a group of eminent scholars who work on Burma to study the sto ries of Burmese people from different walks of life\, using interdisciplin ary approaches. Although Burma/Myanmar has been partially opened to foreig n visitors since 1988\, academic studies have largely centered on the ruli ng regime. What emerges is a lack of exploration of ?different versions of reality? as seen from the perspectives of the diverse ethnic groups that make up the Burmese people. Research into the life stories of Burmese peop le of different ethnicities\, occupations\, ages\, and genders will help t o reveal the multiplicities of Burma?s modern social history.\n\n The conf erence will be open to the public.\n\n Agenda\n\n\n 18th Annual Internatio nal Association of Chinese Linguistics Conference\n\n Hosted under the joi nt auspices of the Department of Linguistics and the Department of East As ian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\n\n Co-sponsored by t he Harvard-Yenching Insitute\, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for Interna tional Scholarly Exchange and the International Association of Chinese Lin guistics\, and further supported by the Fairbank Center and Asia Center of Harvard University\, and the Haide Foundation of Hong Kong.\n\n Date: Th ursday\, May 20 - Saturday\, May 22\, 2010\n Location: Harvard University \n Conference Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~iacl18/Site/index.html \n\n\n The Issue and Role of Xunzi Studies for the Articulation of the Con fucian Values for the 21st Century\n\n Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n Sato Masayuki\, Professor of Philosophy\, Nationa l Taiwan University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010\n Discussant: Profess or Michael Puett\, EALC\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Wednesday\, May 1 2\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm\n Location: Vanserg Common Room\, Va nserg Building\, 25 Francis St.\n\n\n Social Suffering\, the Culture of Co mpassion\, and the Divided Moral Experience in China\n\n Co-sponsored by t he Asia Center\n\n Date: Friday\, May 7 - Saturday\, May 8\, 2010\n Locat ion: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\n\n\n Early Korea and Japan Interactions: New Perspectives on Old Issues\n\n Date: Monday\, May 3 - Tuesday\, May 4\, 2010\n Time: 9 am - 5 pm (May 3)\, 9 am - 5 pm (May 4)\ n Location: Day 1 (May 3) - Room S250\, CGIS South Bldg.\, 1730 Cambridge Street\n Day 2 (May 4) - Room S153\, CGIS South Bldg.\, 1730 Cambridge St reet\n\n This workshop is planned and hosted by the Early Korea Project (E KP) at Harvard. Generous funding is from the Northeast Asia History Founda tion in Seoul\, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard\, and the Harvard Yenching Institute. Please note that presentations will be given in Korean and Japanese and will be supplemented in some cases with PowerPoint presentations that have English subtitles on the slides. Transl ated papers will be available on the day of the workshop sessions so that those who use English can follow.\n\n Conference schedule\n\n\n HYI Litera ture Symposium: Culture at Intersection\n\n Date: Saturday\, May 1\, 2010 \n Time: 9 am - 5 pm\n Location: William James Hall 1550\, Harvard Unive rsity\n\n Symposium Schedule\n\n\n Development of the legal and institutio nal concept of property in Cambodia\, China and Vietnam\n\n Kuong Teilee\, Professor of Law\, Nagoya University\, Japan\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009- 2010\n Discussant: Professor Duncan Kennedy\n\n Date: Thursday\, April 2 9\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Politicization of Association in Modern China\n\n Co- sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n Feng Xiaocai\, Pr ofessor of History\, Fudan University\, China\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009- 2010\n Discussant: Professor Elizabeth Perry (Director\, Harvard-Yenchin g Institute\; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University) \n\n Date: Wednesday\, April 28\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm\n Loca tion: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Inner Asia and China: Cultural and Historical Connections\n\n Date: April 24-25\, 2010\n Time:  April 24\, 9:50 am - 5:45 pm\; April 25\, 10 am - 6:20 pm\n Location: B elfer Room S020\, CGIS South Building\, 1727 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, M A\n\n Conference website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~sanskrit/conference 2010/conference2010.html\n\n\n Antique Jades in Antiquity: Heritage? Colle ctible? or Material Resource?\n\n Co-sponsored by the Harvard East Asian A rchaeology Seminar and the Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\n Jenny So (Profe ssor of Fine Arts\, Director\, Institute of Chinese Studies\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\; Harvard-Yenching Coordinate Research Scholar)\n\ n Date: Friday\, April 23\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 pm\n Location: Room 14A Peabody Museum\n\n http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/eaas/\n\n\n The Morp heme SU -- Determiner and Complementizer in Nuosu Yi Language\n\n Hu Suhua \, Professor at the Institute for Chinese Minority Languages\, Minzu Unive rsity of China\; Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar 2009-10\n Discussants: Professor James Huang\, Linguistics Department\, Harvard University and P rofessor Feng Shengli\, EALC Department\, Harvard University\n\n Date: T hursday\, April 22\, 2010\n Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm\n Location: Yenchin g Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Trans-Himalayas Interaction during t he First Millennium BC\n\n Lu Hongliang\, Professor of Archaeology\, Sichu an University\, China\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010\n Discussant: Profe ssor Rowan Flad\, Anthropology Department\, Harvard University\n\n Date:  Wednesday\, April 21\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm\n Location: Yen ching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Case Study of a Lesbian Health H otline in a Peripheral Chinese City\n\n Cao Jin\, Professor\, School of Jo urnalism\, Fudan University\, China\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010\n Dis cussants: Joan Kaufman (Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical S chool and founding Director of the AIDS Public Policy Training Project\, H arvard Kennedy School) and Bradley S. Epps (Professor of Romance Languag es and Literatures and of Studies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality\, Harv ard University)\n\n Date: Tuesday\, April 13\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 pm - 1 :30 pm\n Location: HYI-Vanserg Common Room\, Vanserg Building\, 25 Franci s Ave.\, Cambridge\n\n\n The Sinic World in Perspective\n\n A symposium in honor of Tu Weiming\, Harvard Yenching Professor of Chinese History and P hilosophy and of Confucian Studies\, on the occasion of his seventieth bir thday. Organized by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizatio ns\, in cooperation with The Harvard University Asia Center\, The John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and The Harvard-Yenching Institute.\n\ n Date: Saturday\, April 10\, 2010\n Time: 9 am - 5 pm\n Location: Boyl ston Hall (Fung Auditorium and Ticknor Lounge)\, Harvard University\n\n\n East Asian Programs Graduate Reunion\n\n Date: Friday\, April 9\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm\n Location: Harvard Faculty Club\, 12 Quincy St .\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n For a schedule of events and information\, visit:  http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/alumni/east_asian_graduate_programs_reunion.ph p\n\n\n High Precision of Radiocarbon Dating for the Key Project of Origin s and Development of Chinese Civilization in China\n\n Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n Wu Xiaohong\, Professor of Archae ology\, Peking University\, China\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010\n Discu ssant: Professor Rowan Flad\n\n Date: Thursday\, April 8\, 2010\n Time:  11:30 am - 1:30 pm\n Location:Vanserg Common Room\, 25 Francis Ave.\, Su ite 20\n\n\n How the East Was Won: "Imposed Constitutionalism" in Postwar Japan and Postcolonial Korea\, 1945-1948\n\n Co-sponsored with the Korea I nstitute and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\n\n Kim Sung-ho\ , Professor of Political Science\, Yonsei University\, South Korea\; HYI V isiting Scholar 2009-2010\n Discussants: Professors Carter Eckert and A ndrew Gordon\n\n Date: Wednesday\, April 7\, 2010\n Time: 12:30 pm - 2:0 0 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Explaining the Rise of China: A Challenge to Western Social Science Theories?\n\n Co- sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n Date: Monday\, A pril 5\, 2010\n Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm\n Location: Lower Level Conferen ce Room\, Busch Hall/Center for European Studies\, 27 Kirkland St.\, Cambr idge\, MA\n\n What explains China's stunning economic record and continued political stability decades after most other Communist systems in the wor ld collapsed? Does the Chinese case pose a challenge to certain basic soci al science assumptions about the relationship between economic and politic al change?\n\n Is the People's Republic of China simply an example of "del ayed democracy"? Or is China on a trajectory that defies standard Western predictions about the connection among markets\, civil society\, and democ ratization? If the Chinese case does indeed depart significantly from stan dard models of transition and transformation\, what wider lessons can we d raw from its experience -- for other developing countries as well as for s ocial science theory?\n\n This roundtable brings together an inter-discipl inary group of distinguished international scholars -- from China\, Taiwan \, Japan\, Germany and the United States -- to offer their perspectives on these complex questions.\n\n Following the panel\, please join us for a r eception in the lobby of Busch Hall.\n\n This event is open to the public. Registration is not required.\n\n Event poster\n\n\n Red Legacy in China: An International Conference\n\n Co-sponsored by the CCK Foundation Inter- University Center for Sinology\, the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n Date: April 2-3\, 2010\n Location : Belfer Case Study Room\, S020\, CGIS South Building 1730 Cambridge Stre et\, Cambridge\, MA\n\n Red Legacy in China is a two-day conference that s eeks to bring together an international group of scholars from various dis ciplines in Chinese studies to promote a lively exchange of ideas and pers pectives. "Red legacy" refers to remainders and reminders of the Chinese C ommunist revolution in the post-Mao era. It encompasses three types of man ifestations: remnant traces of the Communist revolution\, contemporary rei nventions inspired by the Socialist past\, and ongoing process of the Soci alist experience. Associated with persons and artifacts\, texts and sites\ , politics and capital\, individual and collective memory\, red legacy has been exerting its influence on various dimensions in contemporary China: intellectual and mundane\, spiritual and material\, spatial and temporal\, socio political and commercial.\n\n Conference website\n\n\n Seeing Utopi a\, Past and Future: Wang Di and Xing Danwen Art Exhibit\, Panel Discussio n\, and Lectures\n\n Date: Wednesday March 31\, 2010 (opening event)\n Lo cation: Fairbank Center office area (CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Ca mbridge MA)\n\n This will be a week-long series of events\, including an e xhibition of photographs by two contemporary artists\, Wang Di and Xing Da nwen. Lectures and panel discussions will feature Yin Jinan\, Dean of the School of Humanities\, Central Academy of Fine Arts\, as well as Wang Di a nd Xing Danwen.\n\n\n Re-examining the Relations between the Imperial Diet of Japan and Colonial Korea\n\n Co-sponsored with the Korea Institute and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\n\n Lee Sung Yup\, Professor of History\, Kyoto University\, Japan\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010\n Discussant: Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of Histo ry\n\n Date: Wednesday\, March 31\, 2010\n Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm\n Loc ation: Vanserg Common Room\, 25 Francis Ave.\, Suite 20\n\n\n HYI Recepti on at The Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting\n\n Date: Friday\, March 26\, 2010\n Time: 7 pm - 9 pm\n Location: Liberty Ballroom Salon B\, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown\, 1201 Market St.\, Philadelphia\n\n\n What is Chinese Philosophy? Four Expositions on its Characteristics by Sch olars from National Taiwan University\n\n Date: Friday\, March 19\, 2010\ n Time: 10 am - 4:15 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Av e.\n\n Taiwan\, along with Hong Kong\, was once known among scholars of Ch inese philosophy as one of the two major "bases" of contemporary Neo-Confu cianism. However\, changes in the domestic socio-political environment and a drastic increase in international scholastic activities have caused con siderable diversification in research topics and methods. In particular\, there has been remarkable development in research on Daoism and Buddhism o ver the past twenty years\, a trend best represented by the scholars from the philosophy department of the National Taiwan University (NTU).\n\n Thi s workshop will complement the "International Workshop on the Research of Chinese Philosophy: Critical Retrospection and Prospects"\, to be held at the Harvard-Yenching Institute on March 20-21\, 2009. In that workshop\, f our NTU scholars will be reviewing the current issues and problems of Chin ese philosophy research in Taiwan and Japan. In contrast\, in this worksho p\, these four scholars will expound upon the characteristics of Chinese p hilosophy through discussions of the following four major subjects:\n\n \n On Self-cultivation (by Bau-ruei Duh)\n \n On Meaning of Life and Death (by Yao-ming Tsai)\n \n On Language and Knowledge (by Wim De Reu)\n \n On State and Society (by Masayuki Sato)\n\n\n These lectures\, while engag ing topics close to the heart of scholars of Chinese philosophy\, and both graduate and undergraduate students of the EALC and philosophy department s\, also target a more general audience\, and those who want a comprehensi ve introduction to the subject of Chinese philosophy are most welcomed.\n\ n Program Agenda\n\n\n International Workshop on the Research of Chinese P hilosophy in Japan and Taiwan: With Critical Retrospections and future Pro spects\n\n Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civi lizations\n\n Date: Saturday\, March 20 - Sunday\, March 21\, 2010\n Time : Saturday 10:00 - 5:00 pm\; Sunday 10:00 am - 5:40 pm\n Location: Yench ing Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\n\n In the last several years\, schola rs in many fields have benefited from a worldwide exchange of research\, a nd have begun to share their new findings and novel ideas with their colle agues in other countries. Yet the field of Chinese philosophy in East Asia has unfortunately lagged behind in this respect. Over the past few decade s\, scholars in this field have failed to take advantage of the resources offered them by the emerging global research environment\, and have become more insular than ever before. This workshop aims to respond to this situ ation by providing Western scholars with comprehensive yet critical accoun ts of research on Chinese philosophy in Japan and Taiwan in four major res earch fields: early Chinese philosophy\, Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism\, Budd hist philosophy\, and Contemporary Neo-Confucianism. The workshop will be momentous for Japanese scholarly circles in this area because it will be t he first such workshop in which six Japanese scholars on Chinese philosoph y will all present papers in English.\n\n Program agenda\n\n\n The Impact of Market Reforms on the Health of Chinese Citizens: Examining Two Puzzles \n\n Martin Whyte\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University\n\n Date:T hursday\, March 11\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm\n Location: Vanserg Common Room\, 25 Francis Ave.\, Suite 20\n\n\n Institutions\, Institution alization\, and Governance in China\n\n Joseph Fewsmith\n\n Date: Wednesd ay\, March 3\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm\n Location: Yenching Comm on Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n There are many reasons to expect political r eform of some sort to take place in China - the economy has grown rapidly over three decades\, new generations of leaders have come to power\, there are many demands for greater public participation\, and there are numerou s "mass incidents" that can seemingly be addressed only through political reform. By looking at a number of reforms\, this talk will try to lay out the logic of the ever increasing number of political reforms in China as w ell as the limits to such reforms.\n\n\n Variation and change in language: an East Asian perspective\n\n C.T. James Huang\, Professor of Linguistics \, Harvard University\n\n Date: Thursday\, February 18\, 2010\n Time: 3: 00pm - 4:30pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Hu manistic Buddhism and Its Global Philanthropic Reach\n\n Professor Khun-E ng Kuah-Pearce\n Discussant: Arthur Kleinman\, Esther and Sidney Rabb Pro fessor\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry\, Harv ard Medical School\; Director\, Harvard University Asia Center.\n\n Date:  Wednesday\, February 10\, 2010\n Time: 12:00 - 1:30\n Location: Yenchi ng Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Is the Past Always Behind Us? A Pas t-Oriented Model for the Chinese Perfective Aspect Marker "Le"\n\n Wang We i\, Professor of Linguistics\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences\; HYI Vi siting Scholar 2009-2010\n Discussants: Professors Gennaro Chierchia and  James Huang\n\n Date: Thursday\, January 28\, 2010\n Time: 3:00pm - 4: 30pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n It is general ly believed that temporal meanings in human languages are universally cons trued in terms of space\, and that almost equally universally\, the past i s construed as the world behind us whereas the future is the one in front of us. Professor Wang's talk\, however\, points out that in Chinese\, it i s very hard to associate the word qian (前 front/before) with the meaning of 'future' and the word hou (后 behind/after) with the meaning of 'past '--it is actually always the other way around. The underlying schema of th e so-called 'universal' spatial construal of time involves a moving-ego me taphor in which time is a road the ego moves on. The talk manages to point out that the Chinese perfective aspect le (了) prefers the other metapho r of moving-object\, in which time is a flowing river beside which the ego stands still.\n\n\n The Politics of "Illicitly Brewed Liquor" in Colonial Korea\n\n Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute\n\n Itagaki Ryuta\, Profess or of Anthropology\, Doshisha University\, Japan\; HYI Visiting Scholar 20 09-2010\n Discussant: Andrew Gordon\, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professo r of History\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Friday\, December 11\, 2009\n Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Ethnographic Biography: How the Personal Connects with the Prof essional\n\n Liu Heng\, HYI Coordinate Researcher 2009-2010\n Discussant:  Michael Herzfeld\, Professor of Anthropology\, Harvard University\n\n Da te: Friday\, November 20\, 2009\n Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm\n Location:  Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n The Alchemy and Jouissance of Death: Sichuan Sarcophagi in New Perspective\n\n Eugene Wang\, Abby Aldri ch Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Frid ay\, November 13\, 2009\n Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Proba's Virgilian Cento\n\n Gao Fengfe ng\, Professor of Literature\, Peking University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 20 09-2010\n Discussant: Richard Thomas\, Professor of Greek and Latin\, Cla ssics Department\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Monday\, November 16\, 20 09\n Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n\n Harvard-Yenching Institute Panel at the Beijing Forum: Grassroo ts Mobilization in 20th Century China: A Rural-Urban Comparison\n\n Date:  November 7\, 2009\n Time: 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm\n Location: Beijing\, Chin a\n\n This panel will be part of the session: Crisis and Mobilization in T wentieth Century China (under the sub-theme "Crisis and Opportunity -- His torical reflection on Contemporary Challenges").\n\n Panel Chair: Elizabet h Perry\n Panel Discussants: Michael Herzfeld and Elizabeth Perry\n Presen ters: Jeong Jong-Ho\, Liu Jundai \, Liu Chun (Brenda)\, Yan Xiaojun\, Yu J ianrong\, Zhou Yi\n\n\n Social Consequences of Rapid Expansion of Higher E ducation in South Korea\n\n Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute\n\n Han Jo on\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Yonsei University\, South Korea\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2009-2010\n Discussant: Frank Dobbin\, Professor of S ociology\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Friday\, November 6\, 2009\n Time : 11:30 am - 1:30 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\ n\n During the 1980s and 1990s\, South Korea experienced an exceptionally rapid expansion of higher education\, reflecting a sharp increase in deman d for higher education among Korean parents. In this presentation\, the so cial consequences of higher education expansion will be discussed\, with a focus on inequality. Professor Han's research has investigated whether th e expansion of higher education has affected class mobility among Korean m ales\, finding that a mechanism of class inheritance has changed from dire ct inheritance to one mediated by education. He has also examined inequali ty among college graduates in the labor market and has found a substantial wage gap among different groups of college graduates. Results from previo us research indicate that expansion of higher education in Korea did not a lleviate the degree of inequality but rather modified the mechanism of gen erating inequality.\n\n\n "The Spirit of the Chrysanthemum" (Kiku no sei m onogatari) and Flower Personification in Medieval Japanese Art\n\n Melissa McCormick\, Professor of Japanese Art and Culture\, Department of East As ian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Friday\, O ctober 30\, 2009\n Time: Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm\n Location: Yenching C ommon Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n\n Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\n\n From as early as Ovid's representation of the godd ess Flora\, the personification of flowers by women appears throughout Wes tern art and literature\, signifying seasonal regeneration\, fertility and reproduction\, beauty\, and its ephemeral nature. An equally common visua l and literary trope in medieval Japan\, however\, is the flower who mater ializes in masculine form. "The Spirit of the Chrysanthemum"\, a sixteenth -century Japanese illustrated narrative scroll\, provides the starting poi nt for a consideration of how flower personification structures medieval J apanese illustrated narratives\, metaphorically\, allegorically\, and symb olically.\n\n\n Harvard-Yenching Institute Alumni Conference: Multiple Per spectives on the Meaning of Community and Citizenship\n\n Sponsored by Pek ing University and the Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\n Date: October 31-No vember 2\, 2009\n Location: Beijing\, China\n\n This conference aims to p romote active discussion among scholars from universities and research ins titutes in East Asia on the topics of citizenship and community. The fast pace of economic and information globalization in the latter half of the 2 0th century has greatly influenced human development. In China\, after 194 9\, and particularly after reform and an open policy were implemented in 1 978\, the fast pace of modernization has lead to rapid changes of the soci al structure. This conference will look at China's social progress and soc ial development from the perspectives of community construction\, citizens hip\, and civilian society. At the same time\, the conference will enhance international understanding of China's situation by offering internationa l comparisons. Scholars will further explore the ideas of community and ci tizenship development and evolution\, and discuss contributions to world d evelopment and cooperation in the 21st century.\n\n For more information\, contact Guan Shijie\, guansj@pku.edu.cn\n\n\n Religion and the Public Go od in Modern Chinese Societies\n\n Robert Weller\, Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Research Associate\, Institute on Culture\, Religion and World Affairs\, Boston University\n\n Date: Friday\, October 23\, 2009\n Time: Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divi nity Ave.\n\n While during much of China's twentieth century religion was separated from broader society\, the last few years have brought a reversa l in all Chinese societies. Based on case studies from China\, Malaysia\, and Taiwan\, this talk examines the new rise of religious philanthropy. It focuses on four core questions: (1) the influence of denomination (with p articular attention to local temples\, Buddhists\, and various forms of Ch ristianity)\, (2) the role of scale (the effects of large scale institutio ns vs. local and less institutionalized groups)\, (3) the power and abilit y of varying state/society relationships to affect the public role of reli gion\, and (4) the revival of ritual\, with its important implications for managing social relations between individuals and groups in a pluralist c ontext.\n\n Please feel free to bring your lunch with you\; coffee and bev erages will be served.\n\n\n Comparative World Literature: China and the U nited States\n\n Professor David Damrosch\, Department of Comparative Lit erature\, Harvard University\n\n Date: Friday\, October 9\, 2009\n Time:  Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm \n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinit y Ave.\n\n World literature is often regarded today as a global phenomenon \, sometimes even seen as a cultural expression of an emerging "world syst em." Yet any view of the world is a view from somewhere\, and in practical terms\, world literature is experienced very differently in different pla ces. It consists first and foremost of the body of material that is availa ble to actual readers: works that are assigned in schools\, sold in bookst ores\, and reviewed and analyzed in a country's journals. In this talk\, t he speaker would like to explore the shaping of world literature in a nati onal cultural and institutional environment\, looking at the United States and then at China. He will argue that the American and Asian cases show r eciprocal possibilities and limitations and have much to learn from study of each others' approaches.\n\n Please feel free to bring your lunch with you\; coffee and beverages will be served.\n\n\n Self-reflection by Mirror ing : Understanding the culture of China from Japanese and Korean Literatu re\n\n Ge Zhaoguang\, Fudan University (2009 HYI Coordinate Researcher)\n\ n Date: Friday\, October 2\, 2009\n Time: 11:30 am -1:30 pm\n Location:Y enching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n Talk will be given in Chinese.\n\n Please feel free to bring your lunch with you\; coffee and beverages will be served.\n\n\n Twenty-First Century Urbanization: Social Science Perspe ctives on China's Urban Transformation\n\n Sponsored by the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies\, the Association for Asian Studies an d the Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\n Date: Saturday\, October 3\, 2009\n Location: Ann Arbor\, MI\n\n Preliminary program schedule\n\n\n Meanderin gs Between Borders--Cultural Transmission and the Production of Knowledge in Contemporary East Asia\n\n Held under the joint administration of the G raduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature at National Taiwan University an d the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, with the assistance and backing of Taiw an's Ministry of Education as well as the National Science Council.\n\n Da te: Sept. 10-11\, 2009 \n Location: National Taiwan University\n\n Twen ty papers will be presented over the course of the conference from scholar s in Europe\, the United States\, Japan\, Korea\, Southeast Asia\, and Tai wan. Two round table discussions will also be held\, the first of which\, "Revisiting Formosa\," will focus on the issue of East Asian cultural tran smission in Taiwanese literature.\n\n The other round table discussion\, " Borders\, Meanderings\, and Interdisciplinary Talks\," will be a interdisc iplinary forum. During this forum Harvard-Yenching Institute fellows invol ved in different fields of study will explore questions concerning the tra nsmission of East Asian culture and the production of knowledge in and aro und East Asia.\n\n For more information\, contact Mei Chia-ling\, meicl@n tu.edu.tw.\n\n\n 13th Harvard (Biennial) International Symposium on Korean Linguistics\n\n Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\n Date:  August 8-9\, 2009\n Location: Science Center\, Harvard University\, Cam bridge\, MA\n\n For more information on Harvard-ISOKL\, visit http://www. harvard-isokl.org/\n\n\n Ideas\, Networks\, Places: Rethinking Chinese His tory of the Middle Period\n\n Sponsored by the Department of East Asian La nguages and Civilizations\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harv ard University Asia Center and the Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\n Date: J uly 7-8\, 2009\n Location: CGIS South\, Room S020\, Harvard University\n\ n Over the past few decades\, there have been significant advancements in the scholarship of middle period China (roughly 8th-17th centuries)\, part icularly in the areas of 1) intellectual history\, 2) the study of social networks\, and 3) local history. Although these approaches have often deve loped separately and with their own sets of paradigms\, connecting them le ads to new insights into the patterns of historical change. Professor Pete r K. Bol has been a leading figure in the attempt to fuse the historical s tudy of ideas with research on society and culture. On the occasion of Pro fessor Bol's sixtieth birthday this conference aims to bring together thes e various approaches\, delineating how the articulation and promotion of i deas influenced social structures\, and how intellectual discourse in turn was shaped by historical and social developments. The papers for the conf erence not only will deepen our understanding of middle period history thr ough the analysis of rarely used sources such as maps\, architectural imag es\, and archeological sources\, but also will provide new perspectives on the significance of local dynamics within broader geographical and politi cal configurations and the definition and status of the literati.\n\n Prog ram agenda\n\n\n Approaches to Chinese Material Culture: an Interdisciplin ary Discussion\n\n Date: Wednesday\, May 27\, 2009\n Time: 2:30-5:30 pm\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n Program agenda\n\n\n Media in Chinese Politics\n\n Date: Saturday\, April 25\, 2009\n Time: 8: 30 am-4 pm\n\n Introduction: In recent years a growing body of scholarshi p has emerged that examines the evolving role of media in Chinese politics . While traditionally the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party\, mass media have periodically performed a watchdog role by exposing governmenta l misconduct. The rising popularity of new media has also expanded public awareness of environmental problems\, health threats\, and natural disaste rs.\n\n The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies have invited scholar s researching media and politics in the People's Republic to present paper s at a workshop held at Harvard on 25 April 2009 for publication in a spec ial issue of a refereed journal. Themes of particular interest include the effect of commercialization on media content\, propaganda and public opin ion\, political expression and new media\, interaction between new media a nd traditional media\, governmental use of the internet technology\, and j ournalists as actors in political and legal processes.\n\n In addition to advancing scholarship\, the workshop aims to increase awareness of the rol e of media in Chinese politics in the Boston area by hosting a round table discussion open to the public and the press.\n\n For a program agenda and list of participants\, please visit http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank /events/Postdoctoral_Workshops_Ashley.html\n\n\n East Asian Studies and Sc ience & Technology: Towards Productive Cross-fertilization\n\n Date: Frid ay\, April 24\, 2009\, 12:00-6:00 PM\n Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA \n Program agenda\n \n This conference ai ms to encourage interaction between EAS (East Asian Studies) and Science & Technology Studies\, to appreciate the importance of science and technolo gy in understanding the histories of China\, Japan\, Korea and Taiwan\, to incorporate the multifaceted perspective of EAS into the analysis of scie nce and technology phenomena in East Asian countries\, and to promote the study of science and technology phenomena in East Asia.\n\n\n Asian Neighb orhoods Research Group: "Mobility and Territory" Workshop\n\n Date: April 17-19\, 2009\n Location: Yenching Common Room\n Directed by Prof. Michae l Herzfeld (Harvard University)\, Workshop\n Assistant Chiara Kovarik\n\n Click here for program agenda. 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