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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/public-matters-intellectuals-a
 nd-political-life-in-china-a-symposium-in-honor-of-merle-goldman-1931-2023
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SUMMARY:Public Matters: Intellectuals and Political Life in China: A Sympos
 ium in honor of Merle Goldman (1931-2023)
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Fairbank Center\, and co-sponsored with the Ha
 rvard-Yenching Institute\n\nView program and other event details\n\nPlease
  join us at the Fairbank Center for a day-long workshop in honor of the wo
 rk of Merle Goldman\, a leading figure at the center and a foremost schola
 r of her generation who pioneered the study of contemporary Chinese intell
 ectuals.\n\nIn a full day of panel presentations and discussions\, an inte
 rdisciplinary group of China scholars from North America\, Asia\, and Euro
 pe will highlight ongoing research that either builds directly on Merle’
 s work or addresses some of the central concerns that animated her profess
 ional career: literary dissent\, state-intellectual relations\, conception
 s of citizenship and political rights\, and more.\n\nThe panels will explo
 re the myriad ways in which Chinese intellectuals\, from imperial days to 
 the present\, have sought to express political agency and the extent to wh
 ich their impact has matched their aspirations.\n\nPlease join in this cel
 ebration of our late colleague’s important legacy!\n\nOrganizers:\nEliza
 beth J. Perry\, Harvard University\nTimothy Cheek\, University of Britis
 h Columbia\nJoseph Fewsmith\, Boston University\nNancy Hearst\, Fairbank 
 Center for Chinese Studies\n\nProgram\n\n9:00 AM – Welcome\n\n9:15 AM 
 – Panel 1\nChinese Intellectuals and Chinese Society: Mobilization? Acco
 mmodation? Engagement? Alienation?\nModerator: Elizabeth J. Perry\, Harva
 rd University\nPeter Zarrow\, University of Connecticut — The Language o
 f Republicanism: Liang Qichao and Civic Virtue\nJoan Judge\, York Universi
 ty — Towards the Notion of a Politics of Accommodation: The minjian C
 lassicist\, Hu Puan 胡檏安 (Yunyu 韞玉 1878 – 1947)\nSebastian Veg
 \, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) — The Rise and 
 Fall of minjian Intellectuals\n\n10:45 AM – Break\n\n11:00 AM – Pane
 l 2\nChinese Intellectuals and the Chinese State: Proactive? Reactive? Ref
 ormist? Conservative?\nModerator: Timothy Cheek\, University of British C
 olumbia\nEls Van Dongen\, Nanyang Technological University — Jiang Shigo
 ng’s Foucault and Selective Borrowing in Reform Era Intellectual Debates
 \nMatthew Johnson\, The Jamestown Foundation — Wang Huning’s Journey f
 rom Establishment Intellectual to ‘Red Eminence’: The Party as Ideolog
 ical Fortress\nJoseph Fewsmith\, Boston University — A Through Train to 
 Democracy? Xiao Gongqin and the Yan Fu Paradox\n\n12:30 PM – Lunch Brea
 k (on your own)\n\n1:30 PM – Panel 3\nBetween State and Society: Dissen
 t? Acquiescence? Subversion? Support?\nModerator: Joseph Fewsmith\, Bosto
 n University\nHang Tu\, National University of Singapore — The Covert Sp
 here: Persecution and the Subtle Art of Literary Dissent in the People’s
  Republic\nEddy U\, University of California\, Davis — Subversive Social
 ity: The Resistance of Intellectuals in the Chinese Cultural Revolution\nT
 imothy Cheek\, University of British Columbia — Polishing the Mirror: Hi
 storians as Public Intellectuals in Xi’s China\nDenise Ho\, Georgetown U
 niversity — A ‘New-Style Socialist University with Chinese Characteris
 tics’\n\n3:00 PM – Break\n\n3:30 PM – Panel 4\nBeyond State and Soci
 ety: Nationalism? Cosmopolitan? Globalism?\nModerator: Orville Schell\, 
 Asia Society\nJeffrey Wasserstrom\, University of California\, Irvine — 
 Chinese Publics Beyond Chinese Borders: Political Exiles and Political Deb
 ates from Late Qing Times to the Present\nAngela Xiao Wu\, New York Univer
 sity — Postsocialist Press Theory: Information for Infrastructural Moder
 nity\nClyde Yicheng Wang\, Washington and Lee University — The End of 
 ‘Balanced’ Nationalism: Popular Revolt against Hu Xijin and the Changi
 ng Roles of Establishment Intellectuals\n\n5:00 PM – Wrap-up: Toward a 
 Conference Volume\n\nLight reception to follow
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