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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210402T090000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/modernizing-asias-countryside/
SUMMARY:Modernizing Asia’s Countryside
DESCRIPTION:Harvard-Yenching Institute annual roundtable\n\nCo-sponsored wi
 th the Asia Center\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Korea I
 nstitute\, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, the Reisch
 auer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and the Roy and Lila Ash Center for D
 emocratic Governance and Innovation\n\nPANELISTS\n\nHan Do-Hyun | Professo
 r of Sociology\, Academy of Korean Studies\nNguyen Thi Phuong Cham | Direc
 tor\, Cultural Studies Institute\, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences\nNis
 hikawa Kunio | College of Agriculture\, Ibaraki University\nMini Sukumar |
  Department of Women’s Studies\, University of Calicut\nWen Tiejun | Pro
 fessor and Director of the Centre of Rural Reconstruction\, Renmin Univers
 ity of China\n\nMODERATOR:\n\nElizabeth J. Perry  | Henry Rosovsky Profess
 or of Government\; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\n\nTalk will be h
 eld over Zoom\n\nRegistration required: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/re
 gister/WN_1DyGQtQ7Q1qrluxYpxn3KA\n\nThis interdisciplinary panel of distin
 guished scholars from China\, India\, Japan\, Korea and Vietnam will explo
 re the record of successful and unsuccessful efforts at rural development 
 in their own countries. Why have some programs succeeded in increasing pro
 ductivity\, improving infrastructure and public services\, alleviating pov
 erty\, and ameliorating social and economic inequality\, whereas others pr
 oved much less successful? What have Asian countries learned from these ac
 hievements and shortcomings? And\, based on that knowledge\, what lies ahe
 ad for 21st-century Asian villages?
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