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UPCOMING
EVENTS
NOVEMBER 8 - 21, 2021
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2021 CHARLES NEUHAUSER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Competition,
Coexistence and the Future of US-China Relations
Monday,
November 15, 2021 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM EST
Via Zoom
Speaker: Evan S.
Medeiros,
Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies and the Cling Family Senior
Fellow in US-China Relations, Georgetown University
Dr. Medeiros’ background is a unique blend of
regional expertise and government experience. He served for six
years on the staff of the National Security Council as director
for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia and then as special assistant to
the president and senior director for Asia. In the latter role,
Dr. Medeiros was President Barack Obama’s top advisor on the
Asia-Pacific and was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy
toward the Asia-Pacific across areas of diplomacy, defense
policy, economic policy, and intelligence. Prior to joining the
White House, Medeiros worked for seven years as a senior
political scientist at the RAND Corporation. From 2007 to 2008,
he also served as policy advisor to Secretary Hank Paulson Jr.,
working on the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue at the U.S.
Department of Treasury.
Presented via Zoom
Webinar
Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_caT_vQMcRyWfla_27AwxKg
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TAIWAN STUDIES WORKSHOP
Cross-Strait
Relations One Year After Biden's Election
Monday,
November 15, 2021 | 8:00 - 9:30 PM EST
Via Zoom and from the
Legislative Yuan, Taipei
Panelists:
Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith
College Emeritus and director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop,
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Alastair Iain Johnston, Laine professor of China in World Affairs,
Department of Government, Harvard University
Sara Newland, Assistant Professor, Department of Government,
Smith College
Szue-chin Philip Hsu,
Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science,
National Taiwan University
Yi-Feng Tao,
Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political
Science, National Taiwan University
Johnny Chi-chen Chiang,
Congressman, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and chairperson of
Kuomingtan (March 2020 – October 2021)
Mark Chih-Wei Ho,
Congressman, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and member of the
Central Standing Committee, the Democratic Progressive Party
(DPP)
Moderator:
George Yin, National Service Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University and
Adjunct Research Fellow, Center for China Studies, National
Taiwan University
One year after Biden’s election, cross strait and
US-China relations seem more unstable than during the Trump
administration. If the status quo is desirable, what can the U.S.
and Taiwan do to maintain the status quo? This hybrid webinar
brings together US and Taiwan scholars, in addition to Taiwanese
policymakers, to explore the drivers of increasing tensions in
the cross-strait area, and to examine the credibility of proposed
solutions.
Presented via Zoom
Webinar and from the Legislative Yuan in Tapei
Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2RgCTSP7RLS04cd00ao9mw
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MODERN CHINESE HUMANITIES SEMINAR
The Shifting Limits
of Reform: Literature and Censorship in China since 1979
Friday, November 12,
2021 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM EST
Via Zoom
Speaker: Michel Hockx, Professor of Chinese Literature, University of
Notre Dame
On July 30, 1979, Deng Xiaoping addressed the
fourth national conference of Chinese writers and artists.
Towards the end of his speech he stated, to collective sighs of
relief, that “the Party’s leadership of literature and the arts
does not mean issuing orders, nor requiring writers and artists
to make themselves subservient to […] political tasks.” In doing
so, he redefined the relationship between CCP ideologues and
creative producers, which had become increasingly politicized
during the first thirty years of Communist rule. He also set the
template for later “important speeches” on art and literature by
Party leaders, which have been a core component of Chinese
cultural policy ever since. Looking at leaders’ speeches as a
genre of cultural production, I show how each leader after Deng
tried to confirm the post-1979 consensus that promised more
freedom to cultural producers, while at the same time indicating
where the limits to that freedom might lie. The talk will engage
with these speeches against three discrete backgrounds: the
ongoing dismantlement of what was once the “socialist literary
system,” the claims made about Chinese censorship and
“self-censorship” in American and European public opinion, and
the theoretical debates about structural censorship in the field
of New Censorship Studies.
Presented via Zoom
Webinar
Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0g9r82GHRkWZB9IOPyT9Wg
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CHINA HUMANITIES SEMINAR
Publisher at Work: Yu
Xiangdou's Images and Visualizing Intellectual Labor
Monday, November 15,
2021 | 8:00 - 9:30 PM EST
Via Zoom
Speaker: Suyoung Son, Associate Professor, Cornell University
How could intangible, tacit intellectual labor be
legible, acknowledged, and compensated? The relationship between
authorship and authorial property was hotly debated in late
imperial China when a flurry of fakes, forgeries, and
counterfeits abounded in the commercial book market. My talk will
use examples from Yu Xiangdou (ca. 1560-1637), one of the most
successful commercial publishers in Jianyang, to discuss how he
claimed the hitherto invisible and therefore uncredited
intellectual endeavor of making the books. Away from the
prevailing conception that the images inserted in his printed
books are portraits of Yu Xiangdou himself, I will approach his
images in terms of the highly conventionalized image-signs and argue
that his images serve as a liminal link between incorporeal
authorship and material proprietorship.
Presented via Zoom
Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpcOyuqTItH9XHfGGHtpzj0f6bGEsaGjG0
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CHIANG CHING-KUO FOUNDATION
Taiwan Studies: New
Questions and Challenges
Friday, November 12,
2021 | 7:30 - 9:30 PM EST
Via Zoom
Speakers:
Kevin Luo 羅巍, Tsinghua University
Chih-Wei Chung 鍾秩維, Fu Jen
Catholic University
Su-Yon Lee 李時雍, National Taiwan University
Jaewoong Jeon 全在雄, Harvard
University
Lawrence Yang 楊子樵, Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Cheng-Heng Lu 盧正恆, Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Organizer:
David Der-wei Wang 王德威, Harvard University
A bilingual workshop
sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Chiang
Ching-kuo Foundation, and Hou Family Foundation
Presented via Zoom
Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sQ5ZItvGTXWJIg2wVNapuA
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HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE
Re-Articulations:
Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan
Thursday, November
18, 2021 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM EST
Via Zoom
Speaker: Chih-ming
Wang, Associate
Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies,
Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22
Chair/discussant: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese
Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
Harvard University
This talk revisits the institutional and
intellectual history of foreign literature studies in Taiwan
through the lenses of colonial modernity and traveling theory. It
contends that the discipline of foreign literature studies is
fundamentally a project of re-articulation—not only to introduce
the Western canon in local contexts, but moreover to resignify it
in the global/local nexus for social political transformations.
It is particularly wedded to the formation of the Taiwan-China
division born out of the civil war and Cold War contexts in 1949.
To explain the political meanings of its discipline formations, I
will focus on two examples: CT Hsia’s literary modernism as a
form of anti-Romanticism in the Cold War era and the translation
of subjectivity as zhutixing in the
post-martial law Taiwan. Whereas Hsia in the 1950s intended
literary criticism to be a means for political rectification in
modern China, the translingual birth of zhutixing in the 1990s literalized the
power of theory in the making of postcolonial Taiwan.
Presented via Zoom
Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEucOCpqTwiEtX3ewPRvf8kfFeqWZvmZKl7
More information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/rearticulations-foreign-literature-studies-in-taiwan/
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