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SUMMARY:2012-2013 HYI Past Events
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n	2012-2013 HYI PAST EVENTS\n\n	\n		\n			\n				\n					\n		
 				The Publishing World Turned Upside Down: The Promise and Peril of Elec
 tronic Publishing\n					\n						Mark Selden (Senior Research Associate\, 
 East Asia Program\, Cornell University\; Coordinator\, The Asia-Pacific J
 ournal: Japan Focus\; and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and History\, th
 e State University of New York at Binghamton)\n					\n						Date: Monday\,
  December 16\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm\n						Location: Vanser
 g Common Room\, 25 Francis Ave.\, Cambridge\n					\n					\n						An Interd
 isciplinary Perspective to a Historical Issue: A Jesuit Madonna Case in th
 e Seventeenth Century\n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center 
 for Chinese Studies\n					\n						Chen Hui-hung (Associate Professor\, De
 partment of History\, National Taiwan University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n
 						Chair and Discussant: Thomas Cummins (Dumbarton Oaks Professor of 
 Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art\, Harvard University)\n					\n						Date: W
 ednesday\, December 11\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm\n						Locati
 on: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\n					\n						Historical iss
 ues regarding cultural encounters can require explorations of complex rela
 tionships between the past and present\, the Self and the Other\, and vari
 ous intercultural concepts.  These relevant questions not only shape the 
 most prominent characteristics of the discipline of history in the humanit
 ies\, but also entail other disciplinary methods\, such as those of anthro
 pology\, sociology\, and cultural and religious studies.  The study of th
 e multicultural features of Christianity in China provides an insight into
  an early Chinese understanding of the West\, which later served as a foun
 dation for China’s modernization.  The image and cult of the Virgin Mar
 y—much more popular\, and yet also controversial in the early years of t
 he Jesuit China missions—demonstrates well that an image was seen as an 
 object\, by means of its distinctive material elements\, mostly by its vie
 wers or respondents.  This can be revealed and narrated in terms of a mat
 erial dimension\, in which an unintended invention could have resulted whe
 n the viewer or recipient\, rather than the author or person who had had i
 ts authority\, was the dominant agent.  In this process—from the percep
 tion of a foreign object to the forming of a new idea—the image as objec
 t could have played the role of “first” agent\, then the viewer as the
  “second” agent.  Due to this paramount nature of objecthood\, Profes
 sor Chen will demonstrate how a displacement or diversion of the original 
 sacredness of the image could have occurred\, and that a new iconography m
 ore favorable to the viewer\, or the second agent\, could only have taken 
 root in a non-Christian land\, where the Madonna image and cult would have
  played a completely different role in its religious efficacy.  \n					\
 n					\n						Transition to the 'Universal' Welfare State: the Changing Me
 aning of the Welfare State in Korea\n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Ko
 rea Institute\, Harvard University\n					\n						Kwon Huck Ju (Professor\
 , Graduate School of Public Administration\, Seoul National University\; H
 YI Visiting Scholar)\n						Chair and Discussant: Anthony Saich (Daewoo 
 Professor of International Affairs\; Director\, Ash Center for Democratic 
 Governance and Innovation)\n					\n						Date: Wednesday\, December 4\, 20
 13\n						Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm\n						Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinit
 y Ave.\, Cambridge\n					\n						Over the last fifty years\, the welfare s
 tate in Korea has evolved from a minimal structure of welfare programs to 
 a comprehensive set of institutions and policies for social protection. Th
 is talk traces changes in understandings of the welfare state articulated 
 by policy makers\, examining their political strategies to lead Korean soc
 iety to the welfare state. The concept of the welfare state has changed it
 s meaning according to their political strategies at different conjuncture
 s\, while the aspiration for the welfare state as an ideal state of affair
 s\, where a certain level of well-being is guaranteed for all by the state
 \, remains strong if not stronger than before. For the welfare state is an
  essential component of Korea’s modernization project which goes beyond 
 the left and right divide of the Korean politics. \n					\n					\n						C
 ampaigns on the Internet: Independent Candidates’ Use of Social Media in
  China's Local Elections\n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Cent
 er for Chinese Studies\n					\n						He Junzhi (Professor of Political Sc
 ience\, Fudan University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Chair and Discussa
 nt: Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard Un
 iversity\; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n					\n						Date: Tues
 day\, November 26\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm\n						Location: C
 ommon Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\n					\n						While the contentio
 us approach tries to find why and how people challenge the existing Chines
 e political system\, the supportive approach endeavors to identify why and
  how citizens support the regime. The combination of rising social media a
 nd the evolution of independent campaigns provides an opportunity to estab
 lish a model of network interaction of political participation. Using mate
 rials gathered from micro blogs and interviews during 2011 local elections
 \, this talk explores how independent candidates use social media to build
  collective action when campaigning for deputies. It shows that the micro 
 blog provides a new platform for both political expression and political a
 ction for independent candidates. It is on this new platform that old and 
 new campaigners form a nationwide cooperative network and thus innovate ne
 w campaign strategies to break through the political taboo at online and o
 ffline levels. But local authorities also use the platform to detect recor
 ds of the independent candidates and discourage them in elections. Prof. H
 e’s research endeavors to further understand this new development in ter
 ms of both social movements and elections and their implications for China
 ’s democratization at the initial stage of out-Party campaign.\n					\n	
 				\n						HYI Alumni Gathering in Hong Kong\n					\n						Date: Sunday\,
  November 17\, 2013\n						Time: 6:30 pm\n						Location: Central\, Hong K
 ong\n					\n					\n						Achieving Justice in Bilingual Legal Systems\n			
 		\n						Janny H.C. Leung (Associate Professor\, School of English\, The
  University of Hong Kong\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Chair and Discussa
 nt: Lawrence Solan (Don Forchelli Professor of Law\, Brooklyn Law School
 )\n					\n						Date: Friday\, November 15\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 – 1
 :30 pm\n						Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\n					\n
 						How\, and how far\, does a legal system’s choice of language(s) af
 fect the way in which justice is delivered? What challenges face jurisdict
 ions that attempt to conduct their law in two or more languages? Answers t
 o these questions are a priority for the 45 officially bilingual states of
  the world\, as well as for other states contemplating a move towards bili
 ngualism. Arguably such questions have implications for all countries\, ho
 wever\, in a world characterized by interlocking social forces that includ
 e pressures of globalization and economic integration\, and of population 
 mobility\, decolonization and linguistic recolonization. For lawyers\, add
 ressing such problems is made essential by the increased frequency and sca
 le of transnational commerce and legal proceedings\, as well as by the con
 tinued growth and reach of international law. But it is not only policy ma
 kers\, legislators and other legal practitioners who must think about such
  questions. Bilingual and multilingual forms of law also raise questions f
 or the burgeoning\, scholarly field of language and law\, and for the fiel
 d of jurisprudence more generally. In those fields\, they are a testing gr
 ound for legal theories developed mostly in and for monolingual jurisdicti
 ons\, especially the traditional conception of law as an internally cohere
 nt\, autonomous system governed by logical rules abstracted from complex s
 ocial relations and demographics.\n					\n						This talk presents finding
 s from part of a larger project that attempts to answer the questions rais
 ed above. Specifically\, it will focus on the problem of interpreting bili
 ngual legislation. Established canons of statutory interpretation are base
 d on an assumption closely associated with monolingualism: that there is o
 ne single text of the law. Bilingual jurisdictions which grant two or more
  language versions of enacted legislation equal authority accordingly call
  for additional or even new interpretation strategies whenever supposedly 
 equally authentic texts show inconsistency and potentially even serious in
 compatibility. Prof. Leung will describe converging approaches to this pro
 blem in bilingual jurisdictions and argue that a new legal fiction has bee
 n invented in order to maintain internal legal coherence.\n					\n					\n	
 					HYI Alumni Gathering in Bangkok\n					\n						Date: Tuesday\, Novembe
 r 12\, 2013\n						Time: 6:30 pm\n						Location: Bangkok\, Thailand\n				
 	\n					\n						The Phonographic Turn in East Asian History: Colonial Mod
 ernity and the Making of National Musics and Recording Cultures\n					\n		
 				Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center\n					\n						Yam
 auchi Fumitaka (Associate Professor\, Graduate Institute of Musicology\,
  National Taiwan University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Chair and Discu
 ssant: Carter Eckert (Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History\, Depart
 ment of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n				
 	\n						Date: Monday\, November 4\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm\n
 						Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\n					\n						Fu
 mitaka Yamauchi's study concerns the place of sound and music in a histori
 c moment of change in East Asian history\, namely\, from the mid-nineteent
 h to mid-twentieth century\, initiated by the radical transition from the 
 millennium-old Sinocentric world order based on the Confucian notions of t
 ribute and hierarchy to the Eurocentric world order built on the internati
 onal terms of nation-states and colonies\, and increasingly complicated by
  the emergence of Japanese colonialism claiming to forge an alternative im
 perial order. This inauguration of colonial modernity as a key problematic
  in the region\, Yamauchi will argue\, was profoundly marked by what he co
 ins as the phonographic turn: ideologies and technologies of sonic writing
  played a central role in fracturing\, while being mediated by\, the hiera
 rchical assembly of political communities called the Sinosphere that had l
 ong been coordinated through the literate authority and legitimacy of Chin
 ese characters. Juxtaposing his two research interests in issues of nation
 al music and the recording industry in East Asia\, and across the territor
 ies of imperial Japan encompassing Korea and Taiwan in particular\, he wil
 l illuminate the complicated ways in which what he calls two phonographic 
 regimes of the modern West\, as embodied literally in phonemic writing and
  mechanically in sound recording\, respectively\, functioned to give voice
  to some of the local differences that had hardly been represented under t
 he regional literate regime\, while at the same time advancing new forms o
 f cultural hierarchy and homogeneity that subsumed the otherwise diversifi
 ed voices under the logics of colonialism\, nationalism\, and capitalism.
  \n					\n					\n						The Italian Renaissance in China: New Research by 
 Chinese Scholars\n					\n						意大利文艺复兴在中国：学界研
 究新进展\n					\n						Organized by Villa i Tatti\, with support from 
 the School of Humanities\, Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing)\, Harvar
 d-Yenching Institute (Cambridge\, Mass.)\, the Museum of Art and Archaeolo
 gy at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou)\, and the Department of Art History a
 nd the College of Letters and Cultural Heritage\, Tainan National Universi
 ty of the Arts (Tainan City).\n					\n						Date: October 24-25\, 2013\n		
 				Location: Harvard Center Shanghai\n					\n						Conference program: h
 ttp://itatti.harvard.edu/shanghaiconferenceprogram2013\n					\n					\n				
 		Gourmets in the Land of Famine: the Culture and Politics of Rice in Mode
 rn Canton\n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese 
 Studies\n					\n						Lee Seung-joon (Assistant Professor of History\, Na
 tional University of Singapore\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Discussant:
  William C. Kirby (Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\
 , Harvard Business School\; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harva
 rd University)\n					\n						Date: Wednesday\, October 16\, 2013\n						Ti
 me: 4:00 - 5:30 pm\n						Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambri
 dge\n					\n						Based on his recent book\, Gourmets in the Land of Fami
 ne: the Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton (Stanford Universit
 y Press\, 2011)\, which explores the local history of Canton (Guangzhou) a
 nd the politics of rice\, Seung-joon Lee will illuminate how China's strug
 gles with food shortages in the early twentieth century unfolded and the w
 ays in which they were affected by the rise of nationalism and the fluctua
 tion of global commerce.\n					\n						By tracing Canton’s (China’s so
 uthernmost metropolis) transnational\, high-volume rice trade with Southea
 st Asia\, Lee will explore how the modern Chinese state's attempts to prom
 ote domestically-produced "national rice" and to tax rice imported through
  the transnational trade networks were doomed to fail\, as a focus on rice
  production ignored the influential factor of rice quality. Indeed\, the K
 MT Nationalists’ domestic rice promotion program resulted in an unpreced
 ented “famine” in Canton in 1936 and 1937. He will contend that the wa
 ys in which the KMT government dealt with the issue of food security\, and
  rice in particular\, is best understood in the context of its preoccupati
 on with science\, technology\, and progressivism\, a departure from the co
 nventional explanations that cite governmental incompetence.\n					\n					
 \n						HYI Alumni Gathering in Taiwan\n					\n						Date: Monday\, Octobe
 r 7\, 2013\n						Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm\n						Location: Academia Sinica\, 
 Taipei\, Taiwan\n					\n					\n						New Progress in Rice Exploitation Res
 earch: Evidence from East China\n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Depart
 ment of Anthropology\, Harvard University and the Fairbank Center for Chin
 ese Studies\n					\n						Jin Guiyun (Professor of Archaeology\, School o
 f History and Culture\, Shandong University)\n						Discussant: Richard M
 eadow (Director\, Zooarchaeology Laboratory\, Peabody Museum\, Harvard Un
 iversity\; Senior Lecturer on Anthropology\, Department of Anthropology\, 
 Harvard University)\n					\n						Date: Tuesday\, October 1\, 2013\n						
 Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm\n						Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, C
 ambridge\n					\n						As a worldwide staple\, rice plays a very important
  role in modern life. Archaeologists\, biologists\, climatologists\, and o
 ther scientists are interested in the origins and early development of ric
 e agriculture. The origins and domestication of rice cultivation are hotly
  debated among scholars\, including debate over where\, when\, how and und
 er what circumstances did cultivation or domestication happen. Systematic 
 archaeobotanical work around the Shandong highlands in eastern China provi
 des interesting and critical evidence for understanding Neolithic rice exp
 loitation and contributes to the knowledge of its agricultural origins not
  only by providing new data\, but also by raising additional questions.\n	
 				\n					\n						HYI Alumni Gathering in Wuhan\, China\n					\n						Dat
 e: Thursday\, September 26\, 2013\n						Time: Afternoon\n						Location: 
 Wuhan University\, China\n					\n					\n						什么是最好的历史学
 ：中国近代历史研究的反思与展望\n					\n						A workshop spo
 nsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Department of History\, Z
 hejiang University\n					\n						Date: September 22\, 2013\n						Location
 : Hangzhou\, China\n					\n					\n						如何看待1949年以后中国大
 陆知识分子的“软弱”问题？——兼谈知识分子在历史
 中的作用与局限\n					\n						Professor Yang Kuisong (Department o
 f History\, East China Normal University)\n						Discussant: Professor El
 izabeth Perry (Department of Government\, Harvard University\; Director\,
  Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n					\n						Date: Friday\, September 6\, 20
 13\n						Time: 12:00 pm\n						Location: VANSERG Common Room\, 25 Francis
  Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n					\n						Talk will be given in Chinese\n					\
 n						知识分子总是爱国的。而国家是需要一个政府来代
 表的，找到一个对国家前途有利的好政府，是几乎所有
 中国知识分子的愿望。问题是，什么样的政府是好政府
 ？找到一个对国家好的政府，是否就是对国民好呢？到
 底是国家重要，还是国民重要呢？这个问题是1949年前后
 中国知识分子始终要面对的一个难题，也是许多国家知
 识分子常常会碰到的难题。\n					\n					\n						揭开朝鲜战
 争的神话\n					\n						Professor Shen Zhihua (Department of History\
 , East China Normal University)\n						Discussant: Professor Zhang Jishun
  (Department of History\, East China Normal University)\n					\n						Dat
 e: Wednesday\, August 7\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 pm\n						Location: Comm
 on Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n					\n					\n						Micropolit
 ics of Maoist China: Learning the Language of Socialism in Comparative Per
 spectives\n						毛泽东时代的微观政治：比较视野下的社会
 主义语言\n					\n						A workshop organized by Profs. Feng Xiaocai (Ea
 st China Normal University) and Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)\
 n						Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\,  and the Center f
 or Contemporary China Studies\, East China Normal University\n					\n					
 	Date: July 13-14\, 2013\n						Location: Center for Contemporary China St
 udies\, East China Normal University\, Shanghai\n					\n						This worksho
 p will bring together researchers currently working on the history of soci
 alism in China\, the Soviet Union\, and Eastern Europe\, to discuss the hi
 story of mentalités in China during the early Socialist period in a com
 parative context with a focus on political language and how it was develop
 ed\, learned and used.  We hope to develop shared understandings and appr
 oaches to these issues\, and also to promote a comparative approach to the
  historical study of the micropolitics of socialist countries.\n					\n			
 		\n						International Conference on Tibetan History and Archaeology\, Re
 ligion and Art (7th-17th C.)\n					\n						Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenchi
 ng Institute and the Center for Tibetan Studies\, Sichuan University\n				
 	\n						Date: July 13-15\, 2013\n						Location: Sichuan University\, Che
 ngdu\, China\n					\n					\n						Urban Studies Training Program (比较
 视野下的中国都市研究)\n					\n						Organized by the Harvard-Ye
 nching Institute\, the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Hon
 g Kong University\, and the Shanghai History Research Center at East China
  Normal University\n					\n						Date: June 21-28\, 2013\n						Location: 
 Minhang Campus\, East China Normal University\, Shanghai\n					\n						For
  more information on the program\, click here. \n					\n					\n						Ear
 ly Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Maritime Archaeological Perspe
 ctive\n					\n						Workshop sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\,
  organized by Prof. Wu Chunming\n					\n						Date: Friday\, June 21 - Sat
 urday\, June 22\, 2013\n						Location: Friday - Common Room\, 2 Divinity 
 Ave.\n					\n					\n						Christian Colleges in China: An Experiment in Gl
 obalized Higher Education\n					\n						A workshop sponsored by the Harvar
 d-Yenching Institue \n					\n						Date: Monday\, June 3\, 2013\n						Ti
 me: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm\n						Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cam
 bridge\, MA\n					\n					\n						The National Assembly in Fukuzawa's Later
  Thought\n					\n						Albert Craig (Professor Emeritus\, East Asian Lang
 uages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n					\n						Date: Friday\,
  May 24\, 2013\n						Location: Debate Hall\, Keio University\, Japan\n			
 		\n					\n						Cultural China Reexamined: The Question of Identity\n				
 	\n						Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institue and the Mahindra H
 umanities Center at Harvard\n					\n						Prof. Tu Weiming (Director\, I
 nstitute for Advanced Humanistic Studies\, Peking University\; Senior Fell
 ow\, Harvard University Asia Center)\n						Chaired by Prof. Elizabeth Pe
 rry (Dept. of Government\, Harvard University\; Director\, Harvard-Yenchi
 ng Institute)\n					\n						Date: Tuesday\, May 7\, 2013\n						Time: 12:3
 0 pm\n						Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n				
 	\n						Since the publication of Tu Weiming's essay “Cultural China: th
 e Periphery as the Center” (Daedalus\, 1989)\, each of the three symboli
 c universes as distinct and yet inseparable dimensions of Cultural China h
 as undergone major transformations. The first symbolic universe\, consisti
 ng of Mainland China\, Hong Kong\, Macau\, Taiwan\, and Singapore\, has so
  profoundly reconfigured that the original essay's subtitle must be fundam
 entally reformulated.  The assertion that the center is nowhere whereas t
 he periphery is everywhere may be restated as follows: “the Center is Ev
 erywhere and the Periphery Has Also Become the Center”. The most signifi
 cant development of the second symbolic universe is that the Diaspora (Cf.
  works of Wang Gungwu) has become the focus of increasingly fruitful inter
 disciplinary Diasporic studies. Perhaps the most challenging change in the
  third symbolic universe is now concentrated in the so-called Sinicization
  (Cf. the recent works of Peter Katzenstein) of fruitful discourses in Chi
 na. In Professor Tu's reexamination\, attention will be directed to the po
 ssible emergence of a  “we” that is open\, pluralistic\, and self-ref
 lexive.\n					\n					\n						Comparative Welfare from an East Asian Perspe
 ctive\n					\n						A workshop sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute
 \, organized by Prof. Kamimura Yasuhiro\n					\n						Date: Saturday\, May
  4\, 2013\n						Time: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm\n						Location: Common Room\, 2
  Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\n					\n					\n						Welfare and Labor in East 
 Asia: Various Regimes\, Common Challenges\n					\n						Co-sponsored with
  the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\n					\n						Kamimura Yasuh
 iro (Welfare Sociology and Comparative Social Policy\, Nagoya University)
 \n						Discussant: Professor Mary Brinton (Department of Sociology\, Ha
 rvard University)\n					\n						Date: Wednesday\, May 1\, 2013\n						Time
 : 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambrid
 ge\, MA\n					\n						While economic interdependence among East Asian coun
 tries has deepened\, there has also been an increase in political tensions
  within and among countries in East Asia. Under these circumstances\, furt
 hering market liberalization without adequate social protection may easily
  cause international friction. Maintaining regional peace requires us to p
 ay attention to the social situation in neighboring countries. Thus it is 
 very important to understand welfare and labor in East Asia from a compara
 tive perspective. Are there any common features among the countries? What 
 are the challenges for the future? In this talk\, Professor Kamimura argue
 s that it is crucial to find a political way to overcome the informality o
 f employment.\n					\n					\n						Chinese Cities: Booming Growth or Doome
 d to Fail?\n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Gov
 ernance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School\; East Asian Legal Studies
 \, Harvard Law School\; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard\; Ha
 rvard School of Public Health China Initiative\; Harvard-Yenching Institut
 e\; Kennedy School Student Government\; and the Social and Urban Policy Pr
 ofessional Interest Council\n					\n						Meg Rithmire\, Assistant Profess
 or\, Harvard Business School\, and Faculty Associate\, Fairbank Center for
  Chinese Studies\n						Tony Saich\, Daewoo Professor of Public Affairs\, 
 and Director\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\n					\
 n						Date: Monday\, April 29\, 2013\n						Time: 4:10 - 5:30 pm\n						L
 ocation: Land Hall\, 4th Floor\, Belfer Building\, Harvard Kennedy School\
 n					\n						China's cities have reportedly been driving the country's de
 cades-long economic miracle. But behind this veneer of economic stability 
 lies a system of mass migration and debt that appears to be collapsing und
 er the weight of its own success. Join us as Tony Saich\, director of the 
 Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor o
 f International Affairs\, and Meg Rithmire\, Assistant Professor of Busine
 ss Administration at Harvard Business School\, discuss the future of Chine
 se cities.\n					\n					\n						Rethinking the 1949 Divide in China: Dial
 ogue Between Political Science and History\n					\n						A workshop sponso
 red by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, organized by Prof. Li Lifeng\n				
 	\n						Date: Friday\, April 26\, 2013\n						Time: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm\n		
 				Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\n					\n					\n			
 			Cross-National Lessons: What are East Asian Countries Learning from Eac
 h Other Today?\n					\n						Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable\
 n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center\n					\
 n						Date: Monday\, April 22\, 2013\n						Time: 2:00 - 5:00 pm\n						L
 ocation: Lower Level Seminar Room\, Center for European Studies/Busch Hall
 \, 27 Kirkland Street\, Cambridge\n					\n						This roundtable\, organize
 d by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and co-sponsored by HYI and the Asia C
 enter\, brings together a group of distinguished scholars (Sebastian Heilm
 ann\, Lan Pei-chia\, Nishino Junya\, Park Tae-gyun\, Zhu Feng and Zhu Xufe
 ng) to focus on how and what East Asian countries are learning from each o
 ther in the realms of culture\, economy\, social policy and politics.\n			
 		\n					\n						What is China? Rockhill's polyglotic approach as an examp
 le\n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Department of South Asian Studies\,
  Harvard University\n					\n						Chen Bo (Anthropology\, Sichuan Univers
 ity\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Discussant: Professor Leonard van der 
 Kuijp (Department of South Asian Studies\, Harvard University)\n					\n		
 				Date: Wednesday\, April 17\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						
 Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n					\n						In 
 1882\, the United States and Korea signed a treaty according to which both
  exchanged diplomatic representation on the ground of equality. However\, 
 in 1887\, the Korean king drafted the “sovereign” (君主) of the Unit
 ed States a note (照会)\, informing that Korea was a dependent state of 
 China (朝鲜素为中国属邦)\, enjoying independent rights in its civi
 l and foreign affairs\; that the treaty between United States and Korea wo
 uld be observed on equal grounds\, and that affairs concerning the depende
 nce of Korea to China had nothing to do with America. \n					\n						W.W.
  Rockhill (1854-1914) spent the last half of his life (1884-1914) interpre
 ting this system\, or what China is--a project that shifted most of his in
 terest away from his Tibetan studies. Tackling the relations between China
  and Korea\, China and Tibet\, China and Europe\, and China’s sea connec
 tions to Southeast Asia\, India\, the Middle East\, and Africa\, he sugges
 ted different “Chinas”\, such as a tributary China\, an imperial China
 \, a ritual China\, and a trading China. They remain relevant for the 21st
  century in that these “Chinas” are not based on ethnicity\, but rathe
 r on a notion of being hua (华) \, for a long time misunderstood to be 
 “Chinese”\, just as zhongguo (中国) was misunderstood to be “Chi
 na”.\n					\n					\n						Intra-cohort Growth in the Inequality of Mathe
 matics Achievement:Taiwan\, the U.S.\, and the State of Massachusetts from
  an International Perspective\n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Fairbank
  Center for Chinese Studies\n					\n						Huang Min-Hsiung (Professor of 
 Sociology\, Institute of European and American Studies\, Academia Sinica\;
  HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Discussant: Professor Mary Brinton (Depart
 ment of Sociology\, Harvard University)\n					\n						Date: Wednesday\, A
 pril 10\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Common Room\, 2 Divi
 nity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n					\n						This talk will present findings f
 rom a cross-national study of more than twenty countries\, with a focus on
  the widening-gap phenomenon in mathematics performance among Taiwanese st
 udents as they progress through the grades. Student performance in mathema
 tics in the state of Massachusetts\, and in the United States as a whole\,
  is also investigated. In Grade 4\, students in Massachusetts and Taiwan p
 erform equally well in mathematics. However\, four years later\, when the 
 students are in Grade 8\, a significant performance gap emerges between th
 ese two jurisdictions\, due to a substantial improvement in performance am
 ong Taiwanese students. This performance gap between Taiwan and Massachuse
 tts\, which emerges over just four years\, has implications for policy and
  research. The presence of a remarkable performance gap in mathematics bet
 ween Massachusetts and the U.S. as a whole also calls for further investig
 ation.\n					\n						A participating country in the Trends in Internationa
 l Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)\, Taiwan has earned a reputation a
 s one of the top-performing countries in multiple survey years. However\, 
 a much less known TIMSS finding peculiar to Taiwan was the remarkable cont
 rast between Grade 4 and Grade 8 in terms of the inequality of student ach
 ievement in mathematics. Taiwan stands out from other countries as it exhi
 bited a very narrow dispersion among fourth-graders\, but an extraordinari
 ly wide dispersion among eighth graders. This talk investigates the wideni
 ng-gap phenomenon in Taiwan with respect to (a) its presence in different 
 studies\; (b) its magnitude and pattern\; (c) its reappearance among stude
 nts in different birth cohorts and different levels of schooling\; and (d)
  its relevance to performance gaps on the basis of student family backgrou
 nd\, gender\, the rural-urban divide\, as well as between- and within-clas
 sroom differences. Some of the research questions listed above are address
 ed through international comparisons.\n					\n					\n						Information Str
 ucture and Word Order: Focusing on Asian Languages\n					\n						A worksho
 p sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Department of Lingui
 stics\, Harvard University. Organized by Professor Wang Bei (Linguistics\,
  Minzu University of China\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2012-13)\n					\n						D
 ate: Saturday\, April 6 and Sunday\, April 7\, 2013\n						Time: 9:15 - 5:
 30 (Saturday)\, 9:30 - 12:30 (Sunday)\n						Location: Common Room\, 2 Div
 inity Ave.\, Cambridge\n					\n					\n						Cultural Change from Aborigina
 l Man (蛮) to Immigrant Han (汉) in Southern China: An ethno-archaeologi
 cal study on snake divinity worship\n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Fair
 bank Center for Chinese Studies and the East Asian Archaeology Seminar Ser
 ies at Harvard \n						\n						Wu Chunming (Archaeology and Museology\, 
 Xiamen University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Discussant: Professor R
 owan Flad (Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University)\n					\n					
 	Date: Friday\, March 29\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Locati
 on: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n					\n						In southe
 rn China\, cultural change from the aboriginal Baiyue (百越) and Nan Man
  (南蛮) to the immigrant Han took place during the Han to Tang dynasties
 . The snake totem is one of the most distinctive native cultural artifacts
  of southern China\, and is different from the dragon totem of the Han nat
 ionality. Snake totems took on different forms\, reflecting the cultural c
 hange from aboriginal Man (蛮) to immigrant Han (汉) in ancient southern
  Chinese societies. The “positive snake divinity” originated from an i
 ndigenous totem culture. The “evil snake” originated from cultural int
 eraction between the native Yue and the immigrant Han after the Han became
  the majority in the south\, at which point the snake divinity changed int
 o a negative role. Since the Tang-Song Dynasties\, an “improved" snake d
 ivinity has appeared\, showing both the transformation of the “evil snak
 e” to a rehabilitated snake divinity and the history of Han cultural ass
 imilation in southern China.\n					\n					\n						中国土地改革运动
 的再认识——基于县级档案的研究\n					\n						Co-sponsored b
 y the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n					\n						Prof. Cao Shuji 
 (Chinese History\, Shanghai Jiaotong University) and Liu Shigu (PhD cand
 idate\, Shanghai Jiaotong University)\n						Discussant: Prof. Li Lifeng
  (Dept. of Political Science\, Nanjing University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)
 \n					\n						Date: Tuesday\, March 26\, 2013\n						Time: 4:00 pm\n					
 	Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n					\n						*P
 lease note: Talk will be given in Chinese*\n					\n						传统中国的
 “押租”与“典卖”导致地权分化并形成以下结构：普
 通租佃—永佃—相对田面—公认田面—绝对田面，与这
 些权利关系相匹配的权利所有者，构成乡村的“阶级”
 与“阶级关系”，才是乡村社会关系的根本。实际上，
 新中国的土地改革并不主要针对“封建剥削制度”与“
 地主阶级”。在土地改革的三个阶段中，以攫取粮食与
 货币为内容的“大户加征”与“减租退押”具有财政应
 急的性质，才是土地改革的目的所在，而“分配土地”
 以虚拟的封建制度与阶级关系为对象展开，只具有象征
 的意义。为了缓解由“大户加征”与“减租退押”导致
 的粮食危机，新政权默许农民进城，采取“清算”的方
 式从工商业者及其他自由职业者手中夺取粮食与货币。
 这一看起来像是“被迫之举”的临时行为，却成为新政
 权解决财政问题的常规措施。中国经济的重心和中国财
 政的重点从工商转为农业，“粮食立国”的方略由此而
 形成。\n					\n					\n						Roppongi through Photographs: Tokyo’s Eme
 rging Cultural Treasure\n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Insti
 tute of Japanese Studies\n					\n						Prof. Aoki Tamotsu (Director\, Na
 tional Art Center\, Tokyo)\n					\n						Date: Monday\, March 25\, 2013\n	
 					Time: 1:00 pm\n						Location: Sever Hall 113\, Cambridge\, MA\n					
 \n						About the speaker: Dr. Aoki\, Director General of The National Ar
 t Center\, Tokyo\, is a Former Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Aff
 airs\, Japan. He was awarded a Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2000 by the Gov
 ernment of Japan. A cultural anthropologist\, Dr. Aoki has taught at Osaka
  University\, The University of Tokyo\, and the National Graduate Institut
 e for Policy Studies. He has conducted extended anthropological fieldwork 
 in Southeast Asia\, China\, and Europe. He was once ordained as a Thai Bud
 dhist monk in Bangkok. Among his many publications\, two of Dr. Aoki’s b
 ooks received awards: “Changes of the Discourse on Japanese Culture sinc
 e the End of War in 1945” received the Yoshino Sakuzo Prize\, and “The
  Symbolism of Ritual” received the Suntory Academic Prize. His most rece
 ntly published books are “The Age of Cultural Power: Asia and Japan in 2
 1st Century” (2011\, Tokyo) and “Contemporary Japanese Writers Are Mig
 rating” (2010\, Tokyo).\n					\n					\n						HYI Reception at the AAS An
 nual Meeting\n					\n						Date: Friday\, March 22\, 2013\n						Time: 7:0
 0 - 9:00 pm\n						Location: Del Mar Room\, Manchester Grand Hyatt\, One M
 arket Place\, San Diego\, California\n					\n					\n						Economic Aspects
  of Population Aging in China and India   \n					\n						Sponsored by Th
 e Program on the Global Demography of Aging\, the South Asia Initiative\, 
 the Asia Center\, the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, the Harvard China Fund\
 , and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (all at Harvard Uni
 versity)\, and the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (at 
 Stanford University)\n					\n						Date: Thursday\, March 7\, 2013\n						
 Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm\n						Location: Bechtel Conference Center\, Encin
 a Hall\, 616 Serra Street\, Stanford University\n					\n						More informa
 tion: http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/population_aging/\n					\n					\n	
 					Globalization of Law and Diffusion of Cultures — Glocalization of A
 rbitration From an East Asian Perspective\n					\n						Co-sponsored by th
 e Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the East Asian Legal Studies Pro
 gram\, Harvard University\n					\n						Fan Kun (Faculty of Law\, The Chi
 nese University of Hong Kong\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Discussant: Pr
 ofessor Bill Alford (Harvard Law School)\n					\n						Date: Wednesday\,
  March 6\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Common Room\
 , 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n					\n						Arbitration has developed
  significantly in recent years as the preferred method of dispute resoluti
 on for international commerce. In the context of harmonization of arbitrat
 ion law and practice worldwide\, what is the relevance of non-Western lega
 l origins and traditions on the contemporary arbitration structures and pr
 actices? Will the efforts of harmonization of national laws lead to the em
 ergence an ‘international arbitration culture’ at a global level?\n			
 		\n						Through the example of arbitration development in East Asia\, Ch
 ina and Japan in particular\, this paper illustrates the forces of legal g
 lobalization and forces of divergent cultures. On the one hand\, global no
 rms are localized with adaptations to accord more closely with local cultu
 res — ‘localized globalism\;’ on the other hand\, through interactio
 ns with different cultures\, local practices may produce shared norms and 
 expectations\, and eventually form a common culture — ‘globalized loca
 lism.’  It argues that the development of international arbitration wil
 l continue to be influenced by the combined forces of globalism and locali
 sm — a process of ‘glocalization’. It questions the inevitability of
  a worldwide convergence around Western values\, and suggests a diffusion 
 of cultures around the globe\, bridging the Western and non-Western differ
 ences. \n					\n					\n						How to Make a World of Perpetual Peace\n			
 		\n						Prof. Zhao Tingyang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences\; HYI
  Visiting Professor of East Asian Thought)\n						Discussant: Professor 
 Stephen Angle (Philosophy and East Asian Studies\, Wesleyan University)\n
 					\n						Date: Wednesday\, March 6\, 2013\n						Time: 4:15 pm\n						
 Location: Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n					\n						The
  new problem of our times is that of a failed world rather than failed sta
 tes. Globalization has brought us to the unpleasant fact that our suppose
 d world is actually a non-world. Rather than dealing with the problems of
  globality by means of modernity\, we must make a world\, one of perpetual
  peace\, with an ‘all-under-heaven’ system that reaches beyond the na
 tion state system\, with relational rationality emphasized more than indiv
 idual rationality. \n					\n					\n						This Land Is Your Land\, This La
 nd Is My Land: Negotiating between Physical Geography and Political State 
 in Yi Sang’s “Miscellaneous Writings by Autumn Lamplight”\n					\n		
 				Co-sponsored with the Korea Institute\n					\n						John Frankl (Kore
 an and Comparative Literature\, Yonsei University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\
 n						Discussant: Professor David McCann (Department of East Asian Lang
 uages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n					\n						Date: Tuesday\
 , March 5\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Common Room
 \, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n					\n						The enigmatic Yi Sang (1
 910-1937)\, despite his brief life and career\, is widely regarded as both
  tortured genius and Korea’s premier modernist. Though best known for hi
 s experimental poetry and fiction\, Yi was a complete artist who also prod
 uced award-winning paintings and rendered sketches to accompany his own li
 terary works and the works of his most renowned peers. He was also an arch
 itect whose designs were acclaimed by his Korean peers and the Japanese co
 lonial government alike. Finally\, later in his career\, Yi turned to the 
 essay as a vehicle for expressing his musings on various aspects of 1930s 
 Korea and Japan in a manner much more explicit and clear than in his other
  works. \n					\n						This talk will focus on Yi’s multiple identities
  as government architect and idiosyncratic artist\, colonial subaltern and
  loyal subject. Although many critics\, most often trying to confine Yi wi
 thin a postcolonial nationalist paradigm\, find these identities mutually 
 contradictory\, Yi himself appears to have moved rather seamlessly among t
 hem. Examining certain of his representative essays reveals a sort of situ
 ational identity based upon and changing according to geographical and emo
 tional locations as well as real and imagined interlocutors. In particular
 \, his essay “Miscellaneous Writings by Autumn Lamplight\,” written in
  October 1936\, the same month he would venture for the first time to Toky
 o\, where he would meet his untimely end only a few months later\, Yi sure
 footedly negotiates a rugged terrain of competing identities as a modernis
 t writer\, an ethnic Korean\, and a subject of Imperial Japan. Interrogati
 ng his various stances provides small but important glimpses into modernis
 m’s movement from Europe to Asia\, its adoption and modification in Japa
 n and Korea\, as well as how it informed the sensibilities of colonized ar
 tists who worked under the disquieting condition of artistic freedom coupl
 ed with political repression. \n					\n					\n						Developments in Chine
 se Bronze Production\n					\n						Co-sponsored by the East Asian Archaeol
 ogy Seminar Series at Harvard \n					\n						Zhang Changping (Professor 
 of Archaeology\, Wuhan University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Discussan
 t: Professor Rowan Flad (Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University
 )\n					\n						Date: Friday\, March 1\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm
 \n						Location: VANSERG Common Room\, Vanserg Hall\, 25 Francis Ave.\n		
 			\n						The bronze ritual vessel\, as the main body of bronze artifacts
  in the Chinese Bronze Age\, bore many social meanings. It accelerated the
  large-scale production and usage of bronze artifacts. Under this special 
 social background\, it could be said that the social meaning of bronze rit
 ual vessels led to the formation and development of bronze casting technol
 ogy. Casting technology affected the type and decoration of bronze artifac
 ts\, and influenced the way in which these ritual vessels were used.   \
 n					\n						 \n					\n					\n						Reality and Reproduction: Aspects o
 f Sino-Vietnamese Relations as Reflected in a Fourteenth-Century Handscrol
 l Painting\n					\n						Professor Nam Nguyen (Vietnam National Universi
 ty in Ho Chi Minh City)\n						Discussants: Professor Hue-Tam Ho Tai (His
 tory\, Harvard University) and Professor Eugene Wang (History of Art and
  Architecture\, Harvard University)\n					\n						Date: Thursday\, Februar
 y 28\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Common Room\, 2 
 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n					\n						The talk concentrates on a ha
 ndscroll painting entitled The Mahasattva Truc Lam Coming Out of the Moun
 tains 竹林大士出山圖 dated back to 1363 and attributed to a Chines
 e artist by the name of Chen Jianru 陳鑑如.  "Truc Lam" (Bamboo Grove)
  is the style name of the Founding Patriarch of the Vietnamese Zen school 
 named after it\, King Tran Nhan Tong (1258-1308).  After abdicating the t
 hrone to his son\, Tran Nhan Tong retreated into the mountainous region of
  Vu Lam – Yen Tu to practice Zen Buddhism.  In 1304\, the Patriarch cam
 e out of the mountains at the request of his son\, King Tran Anh Tong (127
 6-1320)\, to confer the Bodhisattva commandments on him and his court. 
   The painting in question describes this historical event.  \n					\n		
 				This talk is an attempt to read the inner text (the painting) with the
  support of outer texts (Chinese and Vietnamese referential sources). Due 
 to its artistic features\, handscroll paintings embedded with colophons by
  literati from different settings should be “read” in a quite specific
  way that generates multi focal points during the course of reading. Thus\
 , the talk is an interpretation of selected focal points identified in thi
 s work of art. By reconstructing the background of the coming-out-of-the-m
 ountains event and the composition of the handscroll\, it will point out v
 arious politico-diplomatic\, historical\, cultural and religious aspects i
 n Sino-Vietnamese relations during the transitional periods of the two rea
 lms under the Chinese Yuan and Ming and the Vietnamese Tran dynasties.\n		
 			\n						The Speaker\n					\n						Nam Nguyen is a lecturer and the form
 er Chairperson of the Division of Chinese Studies (Vietnam National Univer
 sity in Ho Chi Minh City).  After earning his MA (RSEA) and PhD (EALC) fr
 om Harvard\, he served as the manager of the Academic Program of the Harva
 rd-Yenching Institute (HYI\, 2004-2010).  His research interests focus on
  comparative literature (dealing mainly with China and Vietnam)\, and tran
 slation studies.  He is currently an associate of the HYI. \n					\n				
 	\n						A Study of Cultural Exchange between Korea and China during the 1
 8th and 19th Centuries: The Fujitsuka Chikashi Collection of the Harvard-Y
 enching Library\n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Korea Institute\n					
 \n						Jung Min (Korean Literature\, Hangyang University\; HYI Visiting 
 Scholar)\n						Discussant: Professor Wai-yee Li (Department of East Asi
 an Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n					\n						Date: W
 ednesday\, February 27\, 2013\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location
 : Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\n					\n						This talk p
 roposes a new resource for studying cultural exchange between Korea and Ch
 ina during the 18th and 19th centuries by introducing the Hujitsuka Chik
 ashi collection of the Harvard-Yenching Library. Fujitsuka Chikashi (藤
 塚隣 1879–1948) was a Japanese scholar who specialized in the Qianlon
 g (乾隆) and Jiaqing (嘉慶) Schools of Qing China. Around 1926\, w
 hen he was appointed as a professor of Chinese philosophy at Keijo Imperia
 l University (Seoul National University)\, he collected a large number of 
 books concerning the Qianlong and JiaqingSchools in Korea and China. Hi
 s collection included over 10\,000 rare books and more than 1\,000 calligr
 aphy manuscripts and paintings\, some of which were exchanged between Kore
 an and Chinese literati. Unfortunately most of the books were lost in a fi
 re caused by American air raids on Japan in 1945. The remaining books were
  sold or donated to South Korea and the United States. The Hujitsuka colle
 ction of the Harvard-Yenching Library will shed new light on the study of 
 cross-cultural exchange between Korea and China during the 18th and 19th
  centuries.\n					\n					\n						浅谈满族的“国家认同”问题\
 n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n			
 		\n						Ding Yizhuang (History\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences\; H
 YI Coordinate Research Scholar)\n						Discussant: Professor Mark Elliott
  (Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard Univers
 ity)\n					\n						Please note: Talk will be in Chinese\n					\n						Date
 : Tuesday\, December 18\, 2012\n						Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm\n						Location
 : Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\n					\n						在
 中国，所谓“种族”、“民族”乃至“国家”、“国族
 ”，这些名词和概念的应运而生都有着特定的历史背景
 ，但学界对晚清时期这一“国族塑造”的过程尚未予以
 充分的关注，其中一个未曾被很多人注意的现象，那就
 是晚清知识分子面对西方世界的步步紧逼，感受到“亡
 国灭种”威胁时，为构筑“国族”所作的努力。就是晚
 清时期，当汉族建构自己“民族”的活动风起云涌之时 
 “满洲”或曰“旗人”却既没有这种自觉，也没有这种
 行动，而只能以鼓吹“立宪”和“满汉一家”来予以消
 极而无力的回应。这个报告就是想从满族自身的历史特
 点出发，探讨他们在这个特定的、关乎他们生死存亡的
 关头，却有如此表现的原因。\n					\n					\n						蒋介石如
 何选择接班人——台湾时期的蒋介石与陈诚 (1949-1965)\n			
 		\n						Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n					\n
 						Chen Hongmin (Professor of History\, Zhejiang University)\n						Ch
 air: Professor Elizabeth Perry (Government Department\, Harvard Universi
 ty\; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n					\n						Please note: Tal
 k will be in Chinese\n					\n						Date: Thursday\, December 13\, 2012\n		
 				Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinit
 y Avenue\, Cambridge\n					\n						陈诚是蒋介石在大陆时期刻意
 培养高级将领。到台湾时期，陈诚成为蒋介石最倚重与
 刻意栽培的人，担任国民党副总裁与副总统，党政地位
 仅次于蒋，似乎有“接班”的架式。但《蒋介石日记》
 与《陈诚日记》揭示出他们关系的另一面：蒋对陈诚一
 直心存不满，在日记中时常责骂，二人甚至有过正面冲
 突。蒋陈关系的复杂性，一方面是蒋介石的私德所致，
 更深的层次上则反映了中国近代以来在最高领导人交接
 问题上的制度困境。\n					\n					\n						Old Peasants and New Migr
 ants: Social Practices in the Little Tradition and China’s Modernity Pro
 blems \n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Stud
 ies\n					\n						Song Ping (Professor of Anthropology\, Xiamen Universit
 y\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Discussant: Professor Nicole Newendorp\
 , Department of Anthropology\, Harvard University\n					\n						Date: Wedn
 esday\, December 12\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Y
 enching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\n					\n						Over the
  past three decades\, a radical modernist ideology and attendant practices
  have produced deep and distinctive problems in China. This talk will exam
 ine the contemporary discourse of Chinese modernity\, particularly the nor
 ms and policies co-created by socialism and neoliberalism. It will explore
  debates about civil society\, citizenship and community\, with a focus on
  the meaning of social practice at the grassroots level. It will also disc
 uss Chinese migrants (primarily ex-peasants from rural areas of Southern C
 hina) who have recently emigrated to Western countries\, particularly the 
 US\, and have revived local cultural and social patterns while constructin
 g transnational self-ruled communities to realize their vision of modernit
 y and a better life. Their rich experiences inspire us to look more deeply
  into the little tradition of southern China as a source of possible solut
 ions as China seeks to balance its pressing problems of modernity.\n					\
 n					\n						Detecting Vices: An Analysis of John Burdett's Bangkok Trilo
 gy\n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Department of Comparative Literatur
 e\, Harvard University\n					\n						Suradech Chotiudompant (Assistant Pr
 ofessor\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Chulalongkorn University\
 ; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Discussant: David Damrosch (Professor of 
 Comparative Literature\, Harvard University)\n					\n						Date: Wednesday
 \, November 28\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Yenchi
 ng Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\n					\n						John Burdett
 ’s trilogy -- Bangkok 8\, Bangkok Tattoo\, and Bangkok Haunts -- may
  be little known outside Thailand. But for those in the know\, the trilogy
  is often regarded as a literary gateway to Bangkok\, with such stereotypi
 cal figures as dark\, mysterious femmes fatales\, corrupt policemen\, and 
 inscrutable shamans\, as well as iconic spaces of the Thai capital\, rangi
 ng from such red-light districts as Patpong\, Nana\, and Soi Cowboy\, to s
 uch unique\, exotic locations as world- renowned Oriental Hotel\, Lumphini
  Kick-Boxing Stadium\, and Khaosan Road\, a haven for backpackers. Analyzi
 ng the trilogy as a crossover between detective fiction and travel writing
 \, Suradech will discuss the relationship between transcultural politics a
 nd narrative poetics in the author’s portrayal of Bangkok and its “vic
 es”. \n					\n					\n						The Sacred Wudang Mountain: Secular villager
 s\, Wild Foods and Daoist heritage\n					\n						Professor Wu Xu (Depart
 ment of Anthropology\, East China Normal University\; HYI Visiting Scholar
 )\n						Discussant: Professor Robert Weller (Department of Anthropology
 \, Boston University)\n					\n						Date: Wednesday\, November 14\, 2012\n
 						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divi
 nity Avenue\, Cambridge\n					\n						Wudang Mountain\, a Daoist sacred si
 te in central China\, attracts numerous pilgrims each year. Since 1994\, w
 hen the mountain became a UNESCO World Heritage site\, the local Daoist te
 mple complexes have been protected. Local villages\, especially ones near 
 the temples or along the main pilgrimage roads\, were considered secular a
 nd asked to disappear. Through examining villagers’ food-related activit
 ies and TEK\, this study demonstrates how villages and villagers have prof
 oundly contributed to maintaining the pilgrimage culture in the mountain. 
 Pilgrimage culture has been the most important part of the Wudang Daoist h
 eritage\, giving rise to temple complexes in the past and providing an irr
 eplaceable context for protection of the temple complexes in the future. 
    \n					\n					\n						Two Categorically Different Ways of Focus Reali
 zation in Intonation: Evidence from 19 Languages Spoken in China\n					\n
 						Co-sponsored with the Department of Linguistics\, Harvard University
 \n					\n						Wang Bei (Associate Professor\, Institute of Chinese Minor
 ity Languages\, Minzu University of China\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						D
 iscussant: Maria Polinsky\, Professor of Linguistics\, Harvard University
 \n					\n						Date: Tuesday\, November 13\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:3
 0 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge
 \n					\n						Focus is one of the most frequently used communicative func
 tions\, highlighting a certain part of a sentence for pragmatic reasons\, 
 such as to make a contrast\, to make a correction\, or to provide informat
 ion for a wh-question. In many languages\, focus can be marked prosodicall
 y with lengthened duration\, raised F0\, expanded pitch range and a sharp
  post-focus compression in F0 and intensity (PFC). Recently\, it has bee
 n found that the means of prosodic marking of focus are not universal. In 
 many African languages and languages in South China\, focus is mostly mark
 ed with lengthened duration and sometimes raised F0\, but NOT PFC. In this
  talk\, Professor Wang will present data from 19 languages spoken in China
  and will argue that the distribution of PFC and non-PFC languages may rel
 ate to language evolution and gene. Questions on the origins of Yi and Tib
 etan will be discussed. After reviewing how people learn to mark focus pro
 sodically in a second language and how well people perceive focus in diffe
 rent languages\, Professor Wang will show that PFC is effective on focus p
 erception and is “easy to lose\, but hard to gain”\, which indicates t
 hat PFC is unlikely to appear automatically in a language and is not easil
 y learned through language contact. As these two possibilities meet a big 
 challenge\, a third possibility deserves serious consideration\, that is\,
  PFC is probably inherited from a proto-language as proposed by Xu\, Chen 
 and Wang (2012). \n					\n					\n						Faith\, Society and New Social Med
 ia\n					\n						A special panel at the 2012 Beijing Forum\, under the Pa
 nel Session of “Innovation and Change in the Age of Social Media”\n			
 		\n						Date: Saturday\, November 3\, 2012 \n						Time: 9 am - 12:15 p
 m\n						Location: Yingjie Exchange Center\, Peking University\, Beijing\n
 					\n						Panelists: \n						Wu Fengshi (Department of Government and
  Public Administration\, Chinese University of Hong Kong)\n						Yu Jianro
 ng ( Rural Development Institute\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)\
 n						Zeng Fanxu (School of Journalism and Communication\, Tsinghua Univ
 ersity)\n						Zhou Fenghua (Public Policy\, Huazhong Normal University)\
 n					\n						Chair:\n						Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of 
 Government\, Harvard University\; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n
 					\n						For more information on the Beijing Forum\, please visit: ww
 w.beijingforum.org\n					\n					\n						Understanding North Korean Refugee
 s' Education Experience: A contextual analysis of their hardships\, failur
 es\, and resilience in South Korea\n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Kor
 ea Institute\, Harvard University\n					\n						Pak Soon-yong (Associate 
 Professor\, Department of Education\, Yonsei University\; HYI Visiting Sch
 olar)\n						Discussant: Avram Asenov Agov (Korea Foundation Postdoctoral
  Fellow\, Korea Institute\, Harvard University)\n					\n						Date: Wedne
 sday\, October 31\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Yen
 ching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\n					\n						Issues con
 cerning the education of resettled refugees within the same ethnic group b
 ut in a culturally novel situation differ significantly from those who exp
 erience transnational migration or minority status. The North Korean refug
 ee case is thus vastly different from inter-ethnic attitudes and behaviors
  that often result in within-group favoritism and out-group rejection. It 
 is expected that the cumulative number of refugees from North Korea who ha
 ve fled to South Korea since 1990 will exceed 25\,000 by the end of this y
 ear. Most have found adjusting to new life in South Korea to be a daunting
  challenge. Especially vulnerable are the young refugees in their teens an
 d early 20's. Many experience severe hardship\, if not failure\, in their 
 transition from a strictly controlled socialist track of education to an o
 pen competition-based capitalist education system. \n					\n						The tal
 k will address the patterns of failure among the young refugees and analyz
 e them in the light of their previous educational and social environments 
 in North Korea. The narratives on the realities of schooling in North Kore
 a\, as experienced by former teachers from North Korea\, will provide the 
 contextual base for understanding the hardships of the young refugees. Ini
 tial findings suggest that the academic failure or resilience of the young
  Korean refugees can be best explained along the lines of the relational d
 imensions of cultural competence. \n					\n					\n						Globalization and
  Social Transformation: China in the 21st Century\n					\n						The Fourth
  International Conference on Chinese Society and China Studies\n					\n			
 			Organizers (in alphabetical order): \n						Harvard-Yenching Institute
  \n						Nanjing University: School of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, D
 epartment of history\n						Shanghai University: School of Sociology and P
 olitical Science\n						University of Freiburg: Department of Sinology\n		
 				University of Sydney: China Studies Center \n						University of Toky
 o: The Institute of Oriental Culture \n					\n						Date: Saturday\, Octo
 ber 27 and Sunday\, October 28\, 2012\n						Location: Heren Building (The
  School of Social and Behavioral Sciences)\, Xianlin Campus\, Nanjing Univ
 ersity\, Nanjing\, China\n						\n						Additional information (in Chines
 e and English)\n					\n					\n						Tibetan House Space at Labrang: An Ar
 chitectural Inquiry into the Everyday Sacred and the Mundane\n					\n					
 	Co-sponsored with the Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum\n					\n						Maggie
  Mei-Kei Hui (Assistant Professor\, School of Architecture\, The Chinese 
 University of Hong Kong\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n						Discussant: Janet 
 Gyatso (Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies\, Harvard Divinity School)\
 n					\n						Date: Wednesday\, October 17\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:3
 0 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge
 \n					\n						Labrang\, located on the eastern edge of the Tibetan platea
 u\, has always been an important Tibetan Buddhist monastery since its esta
 blishment in the early 18th century. It has since then attracted lay Tibet
 ans to settle in close proximity and produced relatively dense lay village
 s surrounding the monastery. The settlement has continued to grow and resp
 ond to social changes through time. In the present day\, local Tibetans co
 ntinue to carry out their religious practices daily. How do religious prac
 tices influence the everyday architectural experiences of these locals\, w
 hich extend from the domestic space to the public realm\, and at times\, i
 nto the monastery? It is argued that there are priorities and rules govern
 ing the interchange of the sacred and mundane space between the religious 
 and daily living tasks. Such response influences the spatial organization\
 , such as the reading of house form and settlement pattern. In this presen
 tation\, an overall view on the house space novice monks\, nuns and the la
 y Tibetans will be rendered\, followed by an introduction to three nunneri
 es next to Labrang that were established at different time in history.\n		
 			\n					\n						中华人民共和国第一次普选运动中的上海
 底层社会 \n					\n						(Shanghai Grassroots Society in the First Gen
 eral Election of the PRC)\n					\n						Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Cen
 ter for Chinese Studies\n					\n						Zhang Jishun (Professor of History\
 , East China Normal University\; HYI Coordinate Research Scholar)\n						C
 hair: Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard 
 University\; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n					\n						Please n
 ote: Talk will be given in Chinese/本演讲将用中文进行\n					\n			
 			Date: Tuesday\, October 16\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						L
 ocation: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\n					\n				
 		中华人民共和国建国后第一次普选运动常常被书写为人
 民当家作主的体现，是最为广泛的、真实的民主。而随
 着大量档案史料的发掘，类似的书写应受到质疑。人民
 有没有当家，能不能作主？谁是普选运动的主体，何谓
 人民？人民民主是真实的，还是被权力话语建构起来的
 ？第一次普选是革命的继续，还是宪政的开端？作为中
 国最具现代特征的大都市，上海的普选运动足以成为解
 析上述问题的最重要的案例之一。已经公开的档案及相
 关的文献、报刊资料，为我们走出概念的“人民民主”
 ，从底层社会的政治生活中去发现真实的人民，提供了
 极大的可能性。\n					\n					\n						Mass Movements and Rural Govern
 ance in Communist China\n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center 
 for Chinese Studies\n					\n						Li Lifeng (Professor\, Department of Po
 litical Science\, Nanjing University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2012-13)\n				
 		Discussant: Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, 
 Harvard University\; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute)\n					\n						
 Date: Tuesday\, October 2\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Locat
 ion: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\n					\n						Su
 ccessive mass movements spread like wildfire across China’s urban and ru
 ral areas after the founding of the People’s Republic\, setting the tone
  for the nation’s domestic politics until late 1970s. Mass movements had
  already been adopted as an unconventional political strategy during the r
 evolutionary era and continued to be practiced as an effective strategy of
  mobilization and governance long after the revolutionary victory. Buildin
 g upon his earlier research on land reform\, the first among dozens of nat
 ionwide political movements\, Professor Li will examine the features and f
 unctions of mass movements in Communist China\, especially the close and c
 omplicated connections between mass movements and rural governance and the
  lasting impact of such legacies in contemporary China.  The goal is to s
 hed new light on political operations in both revolutionary and post-revol
 utionary China.\n					\n					\n						Training Program: Social Sciences App
 roaches to Chinese Everyday Life since 1978: Family\, Education\, Religion
  and Consumption\n					\n						Date: June 20 - July 3\, 2012\n						Locati
 on: Johns Hopkins University - Nanjing University Centre for Chinese and A
 merican Studies\n					\n						The Harvard-Yenching Institute\, Nanjing Uni
 versity and the University of Sydney are pleased to announce a new trainin
 g program on "Social Sciences Approaches to Chinese Everyday Life since 19
 78: Family\, Education\, Religion and Consumption". The aims of the progra
 m are to spotlight the international implications of Chinese experiences a
 gainst the background of globalization\; to provide young scholars of the 
 world engaged in China studies an opportunity to understand China\; to sha
 re academic wisdom with outstanding researchers and be enlightened by crit
 icisms from the younger generation\; to initiate world-wide communication 
 and cooperation among institutes for China Studies\; and to advance intern
 ational studies of China and promote their intellectual accumulation.\n			
 		\n						Additional information\n					\n					\n						Women in Academia: M
 eritocracy and Gender Equality\n					\n						Date: June 18-19\, 2012\n				
 		Location: Seoul National University\n					\n						Sponsored by Institute
  for Gender Research\, Seoul National University\, Harvard-Yenching Instit
 ute\, and Korea Institute\, Harvard University\n					\n						Organizers: S
 un Joo Kim\, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History\, Harvard Univer
 sity\; Chung Chin-sung\, Professor of Sociology\, Seoul National Universit
 y\; Lee Na-young\, Sociology\, Chung-ang University\n					\n						Conferen
 ce schedule\n					\n						Women’s status in modern Korea has recently ma
 de much improvement\, and now Korean women enjoy almost equal legal status
  as men in all aspects of life. With the legal inscription of gender equal
 ity in both domestic and public realms\, women now have more representatio
 n in politics\, business\, and education. Discrimination of daughters in h
 igher education has nearly disappeared as women comprise almost half of co
 llege students in Korea\, and increasingly more women pursue graduate and 
 professional degrees. Yet employment data\, at the managerial and professi
 onal levels in particular\, is not parallel to the educational level. In a
 cademia\, institutional efforts have been made to hire more women faculty 
 by assigning special employment quotas and by creating more congenial work
  environments for women over last decade. However\, the representation of 
 women in most departments and schools\, except for a few women-dominated f
 ields such as education\, arts\, and nursing\, is still very meager and th
 ere are a number of departments at major universities that do not have a s
 ingle woman faculty. More objective hiring and reviewing practices\, such 
 as grading publication records\, have been introduced to put into practice
  true meritocracy. Whether adopting this type of conceivably more objectiv
 e criteria in hiring and promotion practices has improved gender equality 
 and meritocracy is controversial and questionable. This conference aims to
  analyze this discrepancy between legal and institutional prescriptions an
 d employment practices in realizing gender equality\, and tries to underst
 and where the major obstacles exist. Comparative data and practices in Chi
 na\, Japan\, and the United States will further enrich our understanding o
 f the current status of gender equality in academia in these countries\, a
 nd will give an opportunity to examine how different cultures and ideologi
 es make impacts on policy making and practices.\n					\n					\n						Socia
 l Welfare Development and Transformation of Governance: East Asian Drama\n
 					\n						Date: June 2012\n						Location: Central China Normal Univers
 ity\n					\n						This workshop will bring together scholars from differen
 t regions and areas of study\, mainly the fields of political\, sociologic
 al and public policy studies in East Asia\, and will lalow for the exchang
 e ideas on the following themes:\n					\n						Theme 1: current trends and
  the future of East Asia welfare regimes\n						Theme 2: the inter-governm
 ent relationship in social welfare provision\n						Theme 3: the role of t
 he state and its relationship to civil society in social welfare provision
 \n						Theme 4: seeking good governance in social welfare development\n		
 			\n						For more information\, please contact Zhou Fenghua (siluoip@163
 .com).\n					\n					\n						Cultural Exchanges between Vietnam and East As
 ia\n					\n						Date: May 14-17\, 2012\n						Location: Institute of Cult
 ure\, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences\, Hanoi\n					\n						For Chin
 ese\, Lingnan refers to southern China.  For Vietnamese\, Linh Nam means 
 “South of the border (with China)” in other words\, the area now known
  as northern Vietnam. Whatever the exact geographical coverage of Lingnan/
 Linh Nam\, it is clear that modern southern China and modern northern Viet
 nam share a common cultural heritage despite their divergent political his
 tories after the tenth century.\n					\n						During the 1950s\, in both V
 ietnam and China the socialist state sought to radically transform local c
 ulture\, by banning practices that were deemed superstitious and wasteful.
  Over the last three decades\, economic reforms and political liberalizati
 on have led to the revival of traditional practices at the local level\; i
 n many cases\, this revival is abetted by global actors such as UNESCO.\n	
 				\n						This workshop is intended to highlight some of the commonaliti
 es between the popular cultures of southern China and northern Vietnam and
  to compare the experiences of Chinese and Vietnamese in transforming\, pr
 eserving and reviving local religio-cultural practices.  Above all\, it s
 eeks to bring together scholars of Vietnam and China with the idea that th
 ey can benefit from such connections and comparisons.\n					\n					\n					
 	Buddhism and the Production of Social Space in Yangtze Delta during 1368-
 1949: Focusing on Township Formation Based on Temple Locations\n					\n			
 			Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n					\n						A tal
 k by Prof. Zhang Weiran (Institute of Chinese Historical Geography\, Fud
 an University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)\n					\n						Discussant: P
 eter Bol (Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages Civilization\, Direc
 tor of the Center for Geographic Analysis\, Harvard University)\n					\n		
 				Date: Thursday\, May 10\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Loc
 ation: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard University\n					\
 n					\n						State Capacity and Local Governance: China and India Compare
 d\n					\n						A roundtable organized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute a
 nd co-sponsored with the Asia Center\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Stu
 dies\, and the South Asia Initiative\n					\n						Date: Monday\, May 7\, 
 2012\n						Time: 1:30 - 5:15 pm\n						Location: Lower Level Seminar Room
 \, Center for European Studies (Busch Hall)\, 27 Kirkland St.\, Harvard Un
 iversity\n					\n						This roundtable brings together a group of distingu
 ished scholars of China and India to consider some of the major political 
 problems and perils facing the Asian giants today.  How do the world’s 
 two biggest countries compare in terms of their ability to manage and moll
 ify their often unruly citizens?  How well does each of them cope on the 
 ground with such enormous challenges as poverty and inequality\, popular p
 rotest\, ethnic conflict\, and environmental degradation?  How effectivel
 y do central and local governments coordinate\, complement\, or contradict
  one another in meeting these challenges?  Can China and India’s relati
 ve successes and shortcomings shed light on prospects for democratic versu
 s non-democratic governance in the twenty-first century? \n					\n					\n
 						China’s Urban Political Cultures: A Comparative Perspective\n					
 \n						Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, East China Normal Un
 iversity\, and the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences\
 n					\n						Date: Friday\, May 4 and Saturday\, May 5\n						Location: Y
 enching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard University\n					\n					\n
 						Mass Torts in China\n					\n						Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center fo
 r Chinese Studies\n					\n						A talk by Prof. Zhu Yan (Law School\, Re
 nmin University of China\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)\n					\n						Dis
 cussant: William P. Alford (Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard 
 Law School)\n					\n						*Please note different location*\n					\n						D
 ate: Friday\, May 4\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: V
 anserg Common Room\, 25 Francis Avenue\, Harvard University\n					\n						
 Mass Torts are concerned with legal accidents\, which involve hundreds\, t
 housands\, and even millions of victims due to some risks which trace back
  to the uncertainty of industrial technology. The urbanization of demograp
 hy and the globalization of marketing further increase the probability of 
 mass torts.\n					\n						In the past decade many mass torts happened glob
 ally\, such as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico\, the 2008 contaminated
  milk scandal 2008 in China\, and the 2011 Fukuyama nuclear leak caused by
  the earthquake in Japan. In the above mentioned accidents\, more than 100
 \,000 residents or consumers suffered personal injuries and economic losse
 s to varying degrees. In oil spill accidents\, environmental damage may no
 t be restored in a foreseeable period. De facto\, mass torts spawn new tas
 ks for legal study\, particularly for modern tort law\, practically and th
 eoretically.\n					\n						In this talk Prof. Zhu will give an introductor
 y analysis by means of statistics on recent mass torts cases in the past a
  few years in China\, in order to demonstrate that mass torts constitute a
 n important issue in modern Chinese tort law. Then he will explore this le
 gal issue in terms of the specific characteristics of mass torts\, such as
  losses and damage\, causation\, limitation of litigation\, and class acti
 on as a lawsuit form. Due to the sophisticated implications of mass torts\
 , Prof. Zhu will also analyze the influences of mass torts and their lawsu
 its upon the Chinese administration and judiciary. For example\, he will a
 rgue that administrative resolutions dominated by central and local govern
 ments can’t efficiently\, equally\, and openly resolve the problems aris
 ing from mass torts. Although mass lawsuits will challenge the management 
 and expertise of People’s Courts in different jurisdictions\, refusing t
 o open the court door to victims could result in more problems which may e
 ven threaten social stability.\n					\n					\n						The Making of Post-Soc
 ialist Individuals: A Case of Border Crossers from North Korea\n					\n			
 			Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Korea I
 nstitute\n					\n						A talk by Prof. Won Jaeyoun (Sociology\, Yonsei U
 niversity\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)\n					\n						Discussant: Marti
 n Whyte (Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University)\n					\n						Date:
  Thursday\, April 26\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: 
 Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard University\n					\n						
 This talk discusses the experiences and hardships that North Korean border
  crossers face upon arriving in South Korea. Arrival in South Korea is not
  the end of their hardship after a long journey\, but only the beginning o
 f something new. While the South Korean government provides subsidized hou
 sing\, monthly stipends\, and other benefits upon their arrival\, many Nor
 th Koreans have become desolate\, suffering from job insecurity\, low inco
 me\, and concentration in lower-ranking occupations in South Korea due to 
 their Northern accents\, lack of support networks\, and unfamiliarity with
  cultural and linguistic customs. To a very small number of North Koreans\
 , South Korea might provide a chance to realize their dreams in the land o
 f opportunity\, but most have to face the harsh reality of the market econ
 omy as well as prejudices\, biases\, and stereotypes in South Korean socie
 ty. This talk attempts to capture the complex process of unmaking “socia
 list” North Koreans and turning them into capitalist South Koreans.\n			
 		\n					\n						A Re-study of the “Daoguang Depression”\n					\n					
 	Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n					\n						A tal
 k by Prof. Ni Yuping (History\, Beijing Normal University\; HYI Visiting
  Scholar 2011-12)\n					\n						Discussant: Dwight Perkins (Harold Hitch
 ings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy\, Harvard University)
 \n					\n						Date: Tuesday\, April 17\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 p
 m\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard Univer
 sity\n					\n						Since the late 20th century\, especially with China's r
 apid economic rise through reform and opening-up in the 21st century\, stu
 dies on Chinese economic history and China's position in the world economy
  have attracted increasing attention. The Jiaqing and Daoguang period (179
 6-1850) of the Qing Dynasty has always been considered the most important 
 turning point in Chinese economic history. The Daoguang Depression theory 
 believes that the amount of customs duties continued to decline at that ti
 me\, due at first to food trade being pre-blocked\, and then due to a mark
 et slump. However\, by aggregating the national customs revenue\, Professo
 r Ni argues that during the Jiaqing and Daoguang period\, the amount of cu
 stoms duties still maintained a level of more than 500 million taels. In s
 hort\, the amount of customs duties is not able to support the conception 
 of the Daoguang Depression.\n					\n					\n						The Unclaimed War: The So
 cial Memory of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese Border War in China and Vietnam\n	
 				\n						Ngo Thi Thanh Tam (Max Planck Institute for study of Ethnic a
 nd Religious Diversity\, Gottingen\, Germany)\n					\n						Discussant: H
 ue-Tam Ho Tai (Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History\, Ha
 rvard University)\n					\n						Date: Wednesday\, April 11\, 2012\n						T
 ime: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Av
 e.\, Harvard University\n					\n						Twentieth century Asia was shattered
  by various devastating wars\, some of which\, such as the Japanese-Chines
 e war\, the Korean War\, and the Vietnam War\, has become foundational in 
 national and international memories. Some other wars\, however\, have been
  hardly included in the memory politics in this continent. This is not bec
 ause their role in national and international history is insignificant or 
 that they have been forgotten. More accurate is perhaps that they are uncl
 aimed wars. Like ‘unclaimed belongings’ such wars invite questions abo
 ut why they are played down in national memory and why they ‘stand-in-th
 e-way’ of proper national memory.\n					\n						This talk addresses one 
 of such wars\; the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war. This destructive confl
 ict erupted on 17 February 1979\, officially lasted only 17 days but in re
 ality dragged on for 10 full years in which tens thousands of lives of bot
 h side were lost or ruined. Thirty three years later\, this war stands in 
 both China and Vietnam as a war that-you-aren’t-supposed-to-talk-about w
 hich is barred from the states’ permitted national realm of memory and c
 ommemoration. For the people whose lives were devastated by it\, the daunt
 ing memory of this war continues to haunt their daily existence today. The
  intensity of their suppressed memory is startling especially in the prese
 nt context of a thriving politics and culture of war commemoration in both
  China and Vietnam.\n					\n						In this study\, I follow the life storie
 s and narratives of different kinds of people whose lives have been define
 d by this war\, such as the veterans\, inhabitants of the borderland both 
 ethnic minorities and Kinh and Han majority groups\, the ethnic Chinese pe
 ople in Vietnam\, the ethnic Vietnamese people in China. I seek to underst
 and the political context that led to the outbreak of the war and how its 
 participants understood that context. How did that understanding impact th
 e motivation to join the war and the formation of a sense of defiance\, or
  to find a way out of it\, or to endure the suffering caused by it\, or to
  make sense of loss? To what extend social memory can persist independent 
 of public commemoration? In this research I aim to contribute to a new und
 erstanding of how the memories of such unclaimed war impact local resistan
 ce to the center. In this project  I pursue a dual aim. While I want to u
 se the repression of this memory to reflect on the dominant discourses of 
 the present regimes\, I also want to reflect on truth-seeking and commemor
 ation as currently dominant modes of coming to terms with past violence.\n
 					\n					\n						哪里是中国？—— 有关“中国”论述的
 再思考\n						(Where is China? Rethinking the Theories of ‘China’)\
 n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n			
 		\n						Ge Zhaoguang (Fudan University)\n					\n						Chair: David Wang
  (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature\, Department of East
  Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n					\n						*Pl
 ease note: Talk will be in Chinese*\n					\n						Date: Thursday\, April 1
 2\, 2012\n						Time: 4:00 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Di
 vinity Ave.\, Harvard University\n					\n					\n						How Did Medieval Chi
 nese Learn Epistemology from Indian Buddhism? – A Study of Jingying Huiy
 uan’s Treatise on the Three Measures of Valid Cognition\n					\n						C
 o-sponsored with the Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum\n					\n						Chen-kuo
  Lin (National Chengchi University)\n					\n						Discussant: James Robs
 on (Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harva
 rd University)\n					\n						Date: Tuesday\, April 10\, 2012\n						Time: 
 4:00 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard 
 University\n					\n						The wide-spread consensus about Buddhist epistemo
 logy (pramāṇa-vāda) is that it has never received any serious attentio
 n outside of the development of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. As clearly shown in
  the current scholarship\, the study of Chinese textual sources in this fi
 eld has been totally ignored owing to the untenable belief that it is unhe
 lpful\, if not entirely useless\, for our understanding of Buddhist episte
 mology in the original form. In this talk\, however\, Professor Lin will t
 ry to demonstrate the opposite by presenting a textual and doctrinal study
  of Jingying Huiyuan (523-592)’s Essay on the Three Measures of Valid C
 ognition (Sanliang zhiyi)\, a gem of early Chinese Buddhist epistemologic
 al treatises. This study shall show that reception of Indian Buddhist epis
 temology in the era before Xuanzang was far more significant than what has
  been previously assumed.\n					\n						Before exploring Huiyuan’s contr
 ibution\, Professor Lin will give a brief historical picture of how Buddhi
 st epistemology was introduced from India to China during the 5th-6th cent
 ury. This picture will be drawn from two angles. The first is a brief chro
 nological sketch\, while the other is a topical reconstruction. Regarding 
 the topical background\, he has selected three topics that were extensivel
 y discussed in the early texts in Chinese translation. The first topic in 
 those early materials addresses the theological issues\, such as arguments
  for the existence of soul (ātman\, puruṣa) and cosmic creators (Iśva
 ra\, Viṣṇu). The second topic concerns metaphysical problem of the ex
 istence of external world. The third topic focuses on the relationship bet
 ween epistemology and meditation. Professor Lin's study will show that Hui
 yuan is in much favor of the third topic than the other two.\n					\n					
 \n						Suffering Bodies during the Sino-Japanese War: 1931-1945\n					\n	
 					Date: April 6-7\, 2012 \n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Di
 vinity Ave.\, Harvard University\n					\n					\n						Power\, Status and S
 pace in East Asian Art\n					\n						Date: April 6-7\, 2012 \n						Locat
 ion: William James Hall 1550\, Harvard University\n					\n					\n						For
 est or Not? Contentious Discourse on Expansive Oil Palm Plantations in Sou
 theast Asia\n					\n						Co-sponsored by the HKS Indonesia Program\, Ash
  Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\n					\n						A talk by P
 rof. Okamoto Masaaki (Center for Southeast Asian Studies\, Kyoto Univers
 ity\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)\n					\n						Discussants: Deborah Ge
 wertz (G. Henry Whitcomb Professor of Anthropology\, Amherst College) and
  Frederick K. Errington (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology\, Emeri
 tus at Trinity College\n						\n						Date: Friday\, March 30\, 2012\n				
 		Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity
  Ave.\, Harvard University\n					\n						This talk will focus on the conte
 ntious discourse regarding the rapid expansion of oil palm plantations in 
 Southeast Asia\, especially in Indonesia. With the rapid rise in global de
 mand for Crude Palm Oil (CPO) as the cheapest vegetable oil\, oil palm pla
 ntations are sometimes devastatingly causing deforestation in Southeast As
 ia. CPO is used not only for cooking oil\, but also for various usages inc
 luding bio-diesel.  This has sparked serious debates between pro-expansio
 n (the government and business sector) and anti-expansion groups (environm
 ental NGOs and indigenous communities). The Indonesian government and busi
 ness sector shrewdly moved to define plantations as forests\, so that the 
 expansion of oil palm plantations is no longer deforestation but rather "r
 e"forestation. If a REDD++ scheme is implemented\, plantations could even 
 obtain carbon credit as forests.\n					\n						Of course\, global NGOs are
  harshly criticizing this movement and the contention is becoming sharper 
 and sharper\, as CPO is very lucrative for the government and business sec
 tors in Indonesia\, while NGOs view the movement as environmentally devast
 ating. This talk will cover the development of this contentious discourse 
 and present the emergence of a strange but positive dynamic equilibrium or
  consensus among stakeholders.\n					\n					\n						中国传统法律观
 念与清代婚姻类案件的审理\n					\n						(Chinese Traditional Id
 eas of Law and the Judgment of Marital Legal Cases during the Qing)\n					
 \n						Zhao Weini (Associate Professor\, School of Law\, Sichuan Univers
 ity\; Visiting Scholar\, Stanford University)\n					\n						Date: Monday\,
  March 26\, 2012\n						Time: 4:00 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Roo
 m\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n					\n						Please note: talk will be in Chinese\n		
 			\n						中国传统法律观念是一个仿佛十分清晰，但事实
 上却十分含混的问题。一直以来，各路学人都从不 同的
 角度不断努力使这一问题变得更加明晰。传统司法是传
 统法律观念的具体落实过程，经过对清代地方婚姻类案
 件的诉讼过程、审理特点的考察发现，清代的司法 中固
 然包裹着我们所十分熟悉的内容：男女、老幼、士庶法
 律地位的不平等，刑讯和脱离法律条文的裁决等等，但
 从中的确也有不少出乎意料的发现：矜恤、慎杀， 以及
 对“最高法律”（天理）的信仰。\n					\n					\n						后冷
 战之后的中国主体想象\n						(Visualizing Chinese Subjectivity in
  the Wake of the Post-Cold War Era)\n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Fair
 bank Center for Chinese Studies\n					\n						A talk by Prof. Dai Jinhua\,
  Peking University\n					\n						Please note: talk will be in Chinese\n			
 		\n						Date: Wednesday\, March 21\, 2012\n						Time: 4:15 pm\n						Lo
 cation: CGIS South\, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)\, 1730 Cambridge St.\n	
 				\n						讲者拟在21世纪变化中的世界语境中，探讨中国
 社会及其文化政治的演变。讲者拟结合相关大众文化文 
 本，联系着全球变局、中国崛起/中国威胁的话语讨论中
 国想象、中国的自我想象的变化；拟在冷战、后冷战、
 后冷战之后的、关于历史与时间的异质性话语脉络 中，
 探讨中国主体呈现的多重社会症候意味。\n					\n					\n				
 		Harvard-Yenching Institute Reception at the AAS Annual Meeting\n					\n	
 					Date: Friday\, March 16\, 2012\n						Time: 7:00  - 9:00 pm\n						L
 ocation: Conference Room B\, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel\n					\n					\n
 						A Han vs. Minorities Dual System in Chinese Society\n					\n						Co
 -sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Studies\n					\n						Ma Rong (Pr
 ofessor of Sociology\, Institute of Sociology and Anthropology\, Peking Un
 iversity)\n					\n						Date: Thursday\, March 8\, 2012\n						Time: 4:00 
 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\n					\n						I
 n academic studies of the structure of Chinese society and discussions of 
 main social contradictions in contemporary China\, most attention has been
  paid to the “urban-rural dual structure”.  This talk sets out to dis
 cuss a different “dual structure” of segmentation within Chinese socie
 ty\, the systemic institutionalized separation in many spheres between Han
  and “ethnic minority” citizens. This group differentiation has simult
 aneously divided Chinese society into two parts in various dimensions\, th
 us not only deeply interfering with the fostering of Chinese national iden
 tity\, but also bringing about a number of social contradictions\, conflic
 ts of interest and a lack of cultural understanding\, and even national se
 paratism. This talk reviews the history of the formation of this structure
  since 1949\, and how this system divides Chinese society into two parts i
 n terms of administration\, schooling\, elite groups\, academic community\
 , and even entertainment. It seems that this structure is harmful to the o
 verall construction of the unified nation of China and must draw close att
 ention from all of society in the 21st century.\n					\n					\n						A Stu
 dy of the Interchange of 5th-7th Century East Asian Gilt Bronze Buddhist S
 culptures\n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese St
 udies and the Korea Institute\n					\n						A talk by Prof. Yang Eun Gyen
 g (Archaeology\, Pusan National University\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12
 )\n					\n						Discussant: Prof. Rowan Flad (Anthropology\, Harvard Uni
 versity)\n						\n						Date: Thursday\, March 8\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00
  - 1:30 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harva
 rd University\n					\n						This talk will focus on the comparison of gilt
  bronze Buddhist sculptures from Korea’s Three Kingdoms period and the S
 handong region\, especially Buddhist sculptures with halos. Existing studi
 es on 5th-7th century international exchange in Shandong\, an important ce
 nter of cultural interchange between China\, Korea\, and Japan and the pla
 ce of origin for Buddhist sculpture\, seem insufficient. Identifying the e
 xact characteristics of Buddhist sculptures from Shandong will provide vit
 al information for understanding the exchange of Buddhism and Buddhist scu
 lptures at the time. In previous studies on the origins and stylistic chan
 ges of Buddhist sculptures and cultural interchange in East Asia\, Norther
 n Dynasties gilt bronze statues were compared with other Buddhist artworks
  because they were large in number\, thus able to provide extensive and di
 verse data. As not many bronze statues survive from the Southern Dynasties
 \, making comparisons or doing research on them was virtually impossible.\
 n					\n						Through the analysis of small 6th century gilt bronze Buddhi
 st sculptures\, Prof. Yang will examine whether gilt bronze Buddhist sculp
 ture from the Three Kingdoms period and those of the Shandong region are s
 imilar. Second\, she will explore the possibility of another origin of the
  Shandong Buddhist sculptures\, since they differ somewhat from Buddhist s
 culpture of the Northern dynasties. Third\, she will examine why Buddhist 
 sculptures from two different regions look similar.\n					\n					\n						A
  Camouflaged Military: The Japanese Self-Defense Forces and Globalized Gen
 der Mainstreaming\n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute o
 f Japanese Studies\n					\n						A talk by Prof. Sato Fumika (Sociology\
 , Hitotsubashi University \; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)\n					\n						
 Discussant: Prof. Mary Brinton (Sociology\, Harvard University)\n						\n	
 					Date: Wednesday\, February 22\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n		
 				Location: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard University\
 n					\n						Along with the global gender mainstreaming of militaries\, r
 ecent sociological studies have directed increasing attention to the patte
 rns of gender integration in the military. However\, most of them focus on
  Western militaries\, leaving a dearth of scholarship about Asian militari
 es.\n						Japan presents a particularly interesting case\, in view of the
  constraints that Article 9 of the Constitution\, which renounces the righ
 t of belligerency\, places upon its military. In illustrating the history 
 of women in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces\, Professor Sato will focus o
 n the reasons of Japanese policy makers for introducing women into the SDF
  and will argue that they are not necessarily relevant to gender equality.
  She will apply a framework of "camouflaging" as she discusses these reaso
 ns\, while exploring issues that concern globalized gender mainstreaming o
 f militaries in the 21st century.\n					\n					\n						Were There New Wome
 n and Moga in the Japanese Community of Colonial Korea? Exploring Gender
  Politics and Colonialism\n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Korea Institut
 e and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\n					\n						A talk by
  Prof. Kweon Sug-In (Anthropology\, Seoul National University \; HYI Vi
 siting Scholar 2011-12)\n						\n						Discussant: Prof. Carter Eckert (Ea
 st Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University)\n						\n						
 Date: Tuesday\, February 7\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm\n						Loca
 tion: Yenching Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard University\n					\n
 						Professor Kweon's talk will examine gender politics within the Japan
 ese colonial settler community in Korea in the beginning of the 20th centu
 ry. More specifically\, it looks at urban middle class Japanese women\, wh
 o were of a significant number in Korea in the 1920s and 1930s and who act
 ively practiced and enjoyed modern ways of life comparable to lives in maj
 or metropolitan cities of Japan. These women were\, on the other hand\, un
 der conservative gender ideology and paternalistic community scrutiny to m
 aintain women's virtues and morals. Existing data seem to show that Japane
 se women in Korea\, as members of the colonizer community\, benefited in a
 reas of education\, occupation\, and family lives\, on more favorable term
 s inaccessible to many women in the metropol\, but could not create a sepa
 rate space and arena where they could raise questions and speak for themse
 lves about issues of their own.\n					\n					\n						China’s future: Sma
 rt State and Strong Society--a Review of the Wenchuan Earthquake Response\
 n					\n						Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n			
 		\n						A talk by Prof. Zhang Qiang (Government\, Beijing Normal Unive
 rsity\; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)\n						\n						Discussant: Prof. Arn
 old Howitt (Harvard Kennedy School)\n						\n						Date: Thursday\, Januar
 y 26\, 2012\n						Time: 12:00 pm\n						Location: Yenching Common Room\, 
 2 Divinity Ave.\, Harvard University\n					\n						Frequent catastrophes h
 ave challenged China’s public policy and social management. Various poli
 cy dilemmas caused by specific crises and the limitation of the top-down p
 olicy-making system urge us to reconsider the interaction among state stre
 ngth and social power while coping with disasters. Due to heavy social imp
 act and economic damage\, the government cannot take on full responsibilit
 y\, and the boundaries between government and society need to be redefined
 . 2008 has been called the first year of an era of civil society (voluntee
 ring) in China because of the huge impact of the Wenchuan earthquake and t
 he Olympic games on civil society development. By integrating a series of 
 empirical studies on the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake\, this talk aims to expl
 ore a possible roadmap for transition from a model of “strong state and 
 weak society” to “smart state and strong society” in China. Professo
 r Zhang attempts to reveal the corresponding challenges and opportunities 
 through reviewing the development of China's emergency management system.\
 n					\n					\n						Civil society and grassroots politics in new democrac
 ies and hybrid regimes (Hungary\, Poland\, South Korea\, Taiwan\, Russia a
 nd China)\n					\n						A Training Program\n					\n						Date: January 7-1
 3\, 2012\n						Location: Korea University\, Seoul\, South Korea\n						\n
 						Organizers: Professor Grzegorz Ekiert\, Department of Government Har
 vard University and Professor Sunhyuk Kim\, Department of Public Administr
 ation\, Korea University\n						\n						This training program is for young
  scholars interested in one of the key issues of contemporary democratic t
 heory: the relationship between civil society and democratization. The pro
 gram is designed to bring together scholars working on projects focusing o
 n grassroots politics\, civil society formation and its impact on various 
 political regimes. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from le
 ading scholars from Hong Kong\, Korea and Taiwan as well as from the US an
 d Central Europe. The training program will facilitate the exchange of ide
 as and learning about the issues critical to the understanding of contempo
 rary civil societies and their role in different political and cultural co
 ntexts. Through lectures by leading academics\, discussion seminars\, and 
 workshops evaluating participants’ research projects\, this training pro
 gram will offer a unique opportunity to young scholars to learn about the 
 state of the art research and theorizing in this field. The program will a
 lso offer the opportunity for established scholars from Asia\, Europe and 
 the US to discuss issues of common interests and to build foundations for 
 future cooperation and exchanges.\n					\n					\n						Historical Material
 s and Methods: the New Horizon for Research on 1950s China\n					\n						D
 ate: January 10-16\, 2012\n						Location: Fudan University\, China\n					
 \n						Organizer: Prof. Feng Xiaocai\, History Department\, Fudan Univers
 ity\n					\n						In recent years\, China has attracted attention from all
  corners of the globe\; however\, academia still needs to strengthen its u
 nderstanding of the political\, economic\, social and cultural changes in 
 post-1949 China. Undoubtedly\, China’s more than sixty years of changes 
 and experiences have raised a host of challenges to theories in both the h
 umanities and the social sciences\, and have provided an excellent opportu
 nity for research on contemporary China to be integrated into the internat
 ional mainstream discussion in these fields.  In the face of this vast am
 ount of new historical material\, we hope that scholars in this field\, wh
 ether based in China or overseas\, will be able to form a new research net
 work\, using the most complete set of new and old historical sources to fu
 rther the development of research on China and thereby move the field towa
 rds a new horizon.\n						    \n						For this purpose\, Fudan Universi
 ty and the Harvard-Yenching Institute have cooperated to convene an advanc
 ed training workshop entitled “Historical Materials and Methods: The New
  Horizon for Research on 1950s China” at Fudan University from January 1
 0-16\, 2012. We plan to enroll about 20 young scholars (including current 
 doctoral students and young faculty and researchers) to participate in an 
 intensive one-week training program. The workshop will invite 6-10 Chinese
  and foreign senior scholars to deliver special lectures\, in which they w
 ill share their personal research experiences and their practical experien
 ces directly related to the use of new historical sources\, including how 
 to consult\, decode\, and analyze materials. The workshop will also set as
 ide time for attendees to discuss and explore how to employ new materials 
 in academic research\, particularly how to utilize new research methods an
 d develop original perspectives from primary source materials.\n						  
   \n						Throughout the training process\, attendees will be encouraged 
 to draw upon their personal academic backgrounds and research interests to
  come up with original research agendas and innovative ideas. After the wo
 rkshop finishes\, the program will select a very small number of exception
 al attendees from Asian Universities to spend the following academic year 
 (2012-13) at the Harvard-Yenching Institute to pursue additional studies. 
 Through this kind of positive academic exchange\, we hope to significantly
  improve the quality of academic studies on the early history of the Peopl
 e’s Republic of China. \n				\n			\n		\n	\n\n\n	 
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