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SUMMARY:“The Elite Uneducation & Imposed Nonage”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \nPlease join for a lecture with: \nChenjian (C.J.) Li\, University Chair Professor \nPeking University \nModerated by: \nAndrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science  \nColumbia University \n  \nThe speed of a fleet is decided by the slowest ship; the direction of a fleet is decided by the leading ship. While education is essential in any society\, education at leading institutions is critical for fostering generations of leaders beyond making a living. The rapid changing places such as China are particularly yearning for leaders who have a deep understanding of humanities\, cultures and science\, who have far-sighted vision\, who are equipped with rational\, critical and creative thinking capability\, and who possess characters of perseverance and determination. The presence or absence of such leaders affects the future of China and the world. \n  \nIn this talk\, the situation of leading educational institutions in China will be objectively discussed. The philosophical as well as mechanistic aspects of education reform will be analyzed. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Panels and Lectures event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\n September 23\,  2019 \n04:00 PM-05:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/18911/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190920T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190921T153000
DTSTAMP:20190912T185103Z
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SUMMARY:“Revolutionary Routine: Grassroots Sources on Work\, Family\, and Private Life in Maoist China"
DESCRIPTION:East Asia Languages and Cultures Department Event\n\nPlease join us on Friday with: \nZhang Letian\, Professor \nSchool of Social Work\, Fudan University \nLi Tian\, Assistant Professor \nCCSLD Research Center\, Fudan University  \n  \nPlease join us on Saturday with: \nAminda Smith\, Associate Professor \nDepartment of History\, Michigan State University \nFabio Lanza\, Professor of History \nUniversity of Arizona \nJeremy Brown\, Associate Professor \nDepartment of History\, Simon Fraser University \nYinghong Cheng\, Professor of History \nDelaware State University \nYiching Wu\, Associate Professor\,  \nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Toronto \n  \nThis multi-day workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to undertake intensive reading and discussion of selected ‘grassroots sources’ from the Fudan Social Life Data and Research Center. Through systematic readings of family letters\, personnel dossiers\, private diaries\, work notes\, and work unit archives\, we explore questions of how the routines of political Maoism were enacted\, mediated\, and performed in the most mundane settings of Maoist society. Unavailable to scholars until recently\, the CCSLD sources draw attention to the the most basic social structures—the workplace\, the school\, and the family—as crucial historical sites of structure and agency. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Workshops\, Conferences and Symposia event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 20-21\, 2019\n9:30 AM – 11:35 PM\n1:45 AM – 3:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute and ACLS-Luce Foundation
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/revolutionary-routine-grassroots-sources-on-work-family-and-private-life-in-maoist-china/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T213000
DTSTAMP:20190911T134115Z
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SUMMARY:"The Far East Sound in Jamaica"
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Chinese Literature and Culture and The Center for Ethnomusciology Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nAndrew F. Jones\, Louis B. Agassiz Professor of Chinese \nDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of California at Berkeley \n  \nThis lecture by Andrew Jones revolves around a cohort of Hakka Chinese entrepreneurs\, record producers\, and studio musicians who played an outsized role in shaping Jamaica’s most important cultural export\, reggae music. Chinese-Jamaican producers like Clive Chin and Herman Chin-Loy not only recorded and marketed some of the first examples of the vastly influential and innovative genre of studio remixes known as dub music\, but also contributed to the rise of a new and historically plangent subgenre in reggae called the “far east sound.” \nThis presentation will explore how “China” sounded in the seemingly unlikely setting of a newly independent Afro-Caribbean island nation\, and what this genre of music might tell us about imperial history\, migrations of labor and capital\, music technology\, and the sonic shaping of a postcolonial “home.” \nAbout Speaker: \nAndrew F. Jones\, Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese at the Department of East Asian Languages+Cultures at University of California\, Berkeley\, teaches modern Chinese literature and media culture. His research interests include music\, cinema\, and media technology\, modern and contemporary fiction\, children’s literature\, and the cultural history of the global 1960s. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 19\, 2019\n7:30 PM – 9:30 PM\nAddress\n\nDodge Hall\,  Room 622 \n2960 Broadway \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture\, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-far-east-sound-in-jamaica/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T193000
DTSTAMP:20190918T173455Z
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SUMMARY:"Eurasia and China's Belt and Road Initiative: Potential Impact\, Potential Disputes\, and How to Address Them"
DESCRIPTION:European Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nKeynote Speaker Bruno Maçães\, \nSenior Fellow\, Hudson Institute \nFellow\, Renmin University\, \nauthor of The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order \nLanxin Xiang \nProfessor of International History and Politics \nGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva \nDirector \n Center of One Belt and One Road Security Studies\, China National Institute for SCO International Exchange and Judicial Cooperation\, Shanghai \nNargis Kassenova \nSenior Fellow\, \n Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University \nModerated by: \nAlexander Cooley\, Director \nHarriman Institute\, Columbia University \n  \nSpeakers will discuss the expansion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) across Eurasia and the risks of conflict and dispute that the promoters of the Initiative might have to address. \n  \nThis is a Workshops\, Conferences and Symposia event. \nPlease register here. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 19\, 2019\n6:00 PM – 7:30 PM\nAddress\n\nBarnard Hall\, James Room\,  4th Floor \n3009 Broadway \n  \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University’s Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies\, Harriman Institute\, Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy\, Columbia Global Centers | Instanbul\, and Istanbul Policy Center-Stiftung Mercator Initiative at Sabanci University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/eurasia-and-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-potential-impact-potential-disputes-and-how-to-address-them/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190916T133000
DTSTAMP:20191025T200211Z
CREATED:20190829T140021Z
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SUMMARY:Reenacting Homecoming: Early Memoirs of Tibetan Exile Life and the Writing of History
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n \nTsering Wangmo Dhompa\, Assistant Professor\, Department of English \nVillanova University \nModerated by: \nLauran Hartley\, Tibetan Studies Librarian\, C.V. Starr East Asian Library \nColumbia University \n  \nEvent Description: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa will give a brief talk on literature produced by Tibetans in the 1960s -70s and its relation to place. She will discuss literature as a logbook of events where the function of memory was not simply to recollect\, but to attempt to recover\, and to recreate the meaning of place. During the last part of her talk\, she will read from her memoir and poems. \n  \nBios of participants: \nTsering Wangmo Dhompa is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Villanova University. She is the author of three collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake\, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press\, Berkeley).  Dhompa’s first non-fiction book\, Coming Home to Tibet was published  the US by Shambhala Publications in 2016. \nLauran Hartley is Tibetan Studies Librarian for the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University and occasionally serves as Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan Literature for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.  She is also co-editor of Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Duke University Press\, 2008). \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 16\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: Modern Tibetan Studies Program
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/modern-tibetan-literature-in-english/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures,Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T200000
DTSTAMP:20190912T132350Z
CREATED:20190912T132350Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening “Royal Cafe”
DESCRIPTION:Modern Tibetan Studies Event\n  \nPlease join us for a film screening of “Royal Cafe” with: \nTenzin Dasel\, Paris-based filmmaker \nAnn Tashi Slater\, writer  \n  \nJoin us for a screening of the film\, Royal Cafe\, followed by a discussion with the Paris-based filmmaker\, Tenzin Dasel\, and writer Ann Tashi Slater. About the film: A young Swiss born Tibetan woman staying in Paris abandons her humdrum life to pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker. In the process\, she discovers Royal Cafe\, a small Sri Lankan eatery near the metro La Chapelle area that happens to serve Tibetan food and is frequented by exile Tibetans in Paris. As she passes time in the café\, looking for inspiration and cast for her film\, Her own life unfolds alongside the desires\, disappointments and loneliness of her fellow diners. Royal Cafe eschews stereotypes of Tibetans living in exile to portray the simple realities of their lives. \nAbout the Speaker(s): \nBorn in Mysore\, India\, Tenzin Dasel attended Upper Tibetan Children’s Village School in Dharamshala\, India. She went on to study fashion design in New Delhi Polytechnic then moved to France in 1999 to continue her fashion studies at Mjm Graphic design in Strasbourg\, Studio Berçot in Paris. She completed her masters in Fashion at L’Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) supported by a French family. She has worked as an assistant designer for the Parisian luxury bag brand\, Jerome Dreyfuss\, and has experience with other well known fashion brands such as Isabel Marant and Ann Demeulemeester in Antwerp. Her first short film\, called Seeds (2009)\, was shot in Delhi\, India with an 8mm camera without any filmmaking experience. Royal Cafe is her second film\, co-directed with the young French director\, Rémi Caritey\, without any budget.    \nAnn Tashi Slater has been published by The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Tin House\, AGNI\, Catapult\, Granta\, and the HuffPost\, among others. Her writing appears in Women in Clothes (Penguin) and American Dragons (HarperCollins). She writes often on subjects related to Tibet; her work includes a novel based on her Tibetan family history and a memoir about a pilgrimage to reconnect with her Tibetan roots. A longtime resident of Tokyo\, she teaches Comparative Literature at Japan Women’s University. (www.anntashislater.com) \n  \nThis is an Arts and Culture Event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\n September 13\, 2019\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: The Weatherhead East Asian Institute
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/film-screening-royal-cafe/
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T153500
DTSTAMP:20190829T171722Z
CREATED:20190828T185027Z
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SUMMARY:“Situating Late Qing Science and Technology in a Global Context”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nShellen Wu\, Associate Professor \nUniversity of Tennessee\, Knoxville  \nModerated by: \nEugenia Lean\, Director\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history\, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture \nColumbia University \n  \nProfessor Wu will offer a book talk on her book Fueling China’s Entry Into the Modern World Order\, 1860-1920. She will discuss the challenges of writing about late Qing science in a global context including issues of sources and conceptual questions including how to move beyond certain preconceptions/misconceptions about science when studying science in China. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Wu is particularly interested in imperialism\, the global ascendance of science\, and how changes in the uses and exploitation of natural resources affected the modern Chinese state and society. Her first book\, Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order\, narrates the history about how Chinese views of natural resource management underwent a major change as a result of the late Qing engagement with imperialism and science. Each chapter addresses a different facet of this change in worldview and as a whole demonstrate that by the end of the nineteenth century China and the West had converged in a crucial measure of modern\, industrialized states: the theory and exploitation of natural resources\, particularly fossil fuels. Part of Dr. Wu’s research on the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen and his China expeditions appeared in the American Historical Review. “The Search for Coal in the Age of Empires: Ferdinand von Richthofen’s Odyssey in China\, 1860-1920\,” The American Historical Review\, Vol. 119\, No. 2 (April 2014)\, 339-362. She is currently working on a second book on the rise of geopolitical discourse in twentieth century China. Her book project traces the historical roots of geopolitical discourse in China and connects Chinese geopolitical concerns to the global circulation of ideas on agricultural development\, land settlement\, and frontiers. For the 2016-2017 academic year\, Dr. Wu is the Pforzheimer Fellow at the National Humanities Center. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 13\, 2019\n2:05 PM – 3:35 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/situating-late-qing-science-and-technology-in-a-global-context/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures,Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T133000
DTSTAMP:20191217T150313Z
CREATED:20190909T142809Z
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SUMMARY:”The Anti-Extradition Protests in Hong Kong: Voices from a Faceless Movement”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nJoshua Wong (left) and Kai Ping “Brian” Leung (right) discuss the anti-extradition bill protest movement in Hong Kong.\n  \nClick here for a write-up and video of the event. \n  \n\n  \nPlease join for a panel discussion with: \nJoshua Wong\, Hong Kong student activist and politician \nSecretary General  \nPro-democracy movement Demosistō \n\nKai Ping (Brian) Leung\, Graduate student \nUniversity of Washington\, Department of Political Science \n  \nThe talk will focus on the “Anti-Extradition Law Movement” in Hong Kong as the discussants try to analyze the following themes: the structural cause of the movement\, why the movement has been so resilient\, and the international status of Hong Kong vis-a-vis the world and China.  \n\nAbout the Speakers: \nJoshua Wong is a student activist. He is the secretary-general of pro-democracy party Demosistō. Time Magazine named him one of the 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014. Fortune Magazine named him one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders of 2015.” \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th Anniversary event. \n\nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 13\, 2019 \n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n\nThis event is open to Columbia University ID holders and accredited members of the press. Media must RSVP with their names and outlets to Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu. \n\nAddress\n\nJerome Greene Hall\, First Floor \n435 West 116th street \nNew York\, NY 10027 \n\nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School\, The Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program\, and the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University. 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-anti-extradition-protests-in-hong-kong-voices-from-a-faceless-movement/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190909T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190909T133000
DTSTAMP:20191025T193033Z
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SUMMARY:“Producing Poverty and Prosperity in Southeast Asia: Methodological and Empirical Reflections”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n \nJonathan Rigg\, Professor of Geographical Sciences \nUniversity of Bristol \nModerated by: \nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia\, Department of History \nColumbia University \n\nWhy has aggregate economic expansion in Southeast Asia so often been accompanied by individual and community decline? How do we explain the persistence of poverty in the context of growing wealth? These are old questions but they have not been adequately answered\, let alone resolved; they remain pertinent and vital at national and individual levels. In this talk\, Professor Rigg will bring together work from across Southeast Asia to argue that illuminating this puzzle requires that we go beyond explanations rooted in the political economy of inequality and instead pay attention\, first\, to academic questions of methodology and academic framing and\, further\, to empirical issues linked of trans-local relations and emergent articulations of deprivation. He does this by connecting land reclamation in Singapore with sand mining in coastal Cambodia\, livestock-raising in peri-urban Hanoi with maize cultivation in upland Houaphan\, isolation in Flores with integration in Luang Prabang\, and vulnerable farming in Khon Kaen with precarious industrial work in Ayutthaya. Each of these pairings opens up a different view onto the issue of the co-production of wealth and poverty across the Southeast Asian region. \n\nAbout the Speaker: \nJonathan Rigg holds a professorship in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol in the UK. Until this year\, he was Director of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on agrarian conditions and transformations in Asia\, and since the early 1980s he has conducted fieldwork in Thailand\, Laos\, Vietnam\, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Over more than 30 years\, he has worked on rice variety selection strategy\, rural livelihoods\, rural-urban relations\, migration and mobility\, disaster preparedness\, and climate change resilience. This year he has published three books that reflect his interests: More than rural: textures of Thailand’s agrarian transformation (Hawaii University Press); People and Climate Change: Vulnerability\, Adaptation\, and Social Justice (edited with Lisa Reyes Mason) (Oxford University Press); and The Asian smallholder: transformation and persistence (edited with Eric Thompson and Jamie Gillen) (Amsterdam University Press). \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 9\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n\nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/producing-poverty-and-prosperity-in-southeast-asia-methodological-and-empirical-reflections/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures,Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190716T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190716T210000
DTSTAMP:20190829T173212Z
CREATED:20190716T140438Z
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SUMMARY:A Discussion on Chinese Classics with Professor Wei Shang\, Professor Lihua Yang\, and Professor Chunying Li
DESCRIPTION:Discussion\nPlease join Wei Shang\, Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture at Columbia University\, and Lihua Yang\, Professor of Philosophy at Peking University for a discussion on Chinese classic literature. The panel will focus on the essence and wisdom of Chinese classic literature and its modern significance. Chunying Li\, Associate Professor at the International Confucian Academy of China University of Political Science and Law\, will moderate the panel discussion. \nThis event is part of the 2019 Columbia Beijing Summer East Asian Series\, in celebration of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s 70th anniversary\, and it is also the second event of the Gei Hai Zi Series Fifth Anniversary Series. \n\nAbout the Speakers \nProfessor Wei Shang is the Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University and is also on the faculty of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He specializes in pre-modern Chinese literature and culture\, especially fiction and drama of the Ming and Qing dynasties. His research interests also include print culture\, book history\, and intellectual history of the same era. From 1978 to 1988\, Professor Shang received his B.A. and M.A. from Peking University. From 1988 to 1995\, he received his PhD from Harvard University. He has joined the Columbia faculty since 1997. His book Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China (Harvard University Press\, 2003) addresses the role of ritual and fiction in shaping the intellectual and cultural changes of the eighteenth century. He is also the author of Chapter 4 of The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature II: “The Literati Era and Its Demise (1723-1840).” \n\n\nLihua Yang is a professor of philosophy\, Ph.D. supervisor\, and associate dean at the Graduate School of Peking University. Yang’s research interests mainly include the history of Chinese philosophy\, Confucianism\, and Taoism. In recent years\, Yang has mainly focused on Song-Ming philosophy and Wei-Jin philosophy. Yang has published several monographs\, i.e. Fifteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy (Peking University Press\, 2019)\, Fifteen Lectures on Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism (Peking University Press\, 2015)\, A History of Chinese Confucianism (the Song-Yuan part\, Peking University Press\, 2011)\, On Guo Xiang’s Commentary of Zhuangzi (Peking University Press\, 2010)\, Qiben & Shenhua: Commentary on Zhang Zai’s Philosophy (Peking University Press\, 2008)\, and The Innominate Joint – The Development of Taoist Methods of Immortality Through Concepts of Internal Alchemy (Peking University Press\, 2002). He has translated five books\, including On Wang Bi’s Commentary of Laozi\, The Discourse of Race in Modern China\, The Collected Works on History of Thought in Sung Dynasty\, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch’eng\, and The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making\, with more than forty academic publications. \nAbout the Moderator\nChunying Li is an associate professor and master supervisor at the International Confucian Academy of China Univerisity of Political Science and Law. She received her PhD in philosophy at Peking University. Her research focuses on the history of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism. \n\nTuesday\, July 16\, 2019; 7:00 – 9:00 PM\nColumbia Global Centers | Beijing\nNo. 26\, 1F Core Plaza\, 1 Shanyuan Street\nZhongguancun\, Haidian District\, Beijing\nRegistration required. \n  \nAgenda\n6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.  Registration \n7:00 p.m. – 7:10 p.m.  Opening \n7:10 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.  Lecture by Professor Wei SHANG \n7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.  Panel Discussion \n8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.  Q&A \nCo-sponsored by Columbia Global Centers | Beijing\, Moveable Type\, and CITIC Press.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/a-discussion-on-chinese-classics-with-professor-wei-shang-professor-lihua-yang-and-professor-chunying-li/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190714T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190714T163000
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CREATED:20190620T144525Z
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SUMMARY:"Supportive Social Environment for Older Adults in China"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nPlease join us in Beijing for a lecture with: \nFeaturing: Jinyu Liu\, Associate Professor\, School of Social Work\, Columbia University \nPopulation aging is a global phenomenon due to increasing life expectancies and decreasing fertility rates. China is of particular interest to gerontologists because of the speed at which its population is aging and the tremendous changes that have taken place in the social and cultural roles of families during the past 3 decades. The individual–environment interactive model has been supported by abundant evidence from societies dominated by an individualist culture. However\, it is still unclear to what extent the model works in family-oriented cultures and societies undergoing dramatic changes due to globalization\, urbanization\, and migration. The presentation will focus on the supportive social environment for older adults in China that features resources from multiple layers\, including family\, social connections\, community\, and social justice. In particular\, I will present the results of my recent studies that explore the effects of friendship\, spousal and intergenerational relationships\, household context and community resources on mental health among rural and urban older adults in China. \nAbout the speaker \nDr. Jinyu Liu an Associate Professor in Columbia University School of Social Work and is also on the faculty of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa School of Social Work in 2013. Before joining Columbia in 2015\, Dr. Liu completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Dr. Liu’s research focuses on stress of Chinese family caregivers and mental health of Chinese older adults. In her research on family caregiving\, Dr. Liu explored how the mechanisms of the stress process unfold in the cultural and social contexts of Chinese family caregivers. The findings of her studies in this field provide invaluable guidance for health professionals and community service organizations in developing culturally congruent interventions to address stress of family caregivers in China. In her research on mental health of Chinese older adults\, Dr. Liu has investigated the effects of resources and barriers at multiple layers of the social environment—including family\, friendship\, and neighborhood—on the mental health of older Chinese. Her research in this area offers crucial implications for developing social services that help strengthen the supportive social environments for older adults and improve their mental health\, especially in family-oriented cultures and societies undergoing dramatic social\, economic\, cultural\, and familial transformations. On both themes\, she has produced substantive new knowledge that expands the existing literature and provides important and timely service implications for Chinese older adults. Dr. Liu has published a total of 27 publications in peer-reviewed journals and presented studies in various domestic and international conferences and institutes. \n \n  \nSunday\, July 14\, 2019; 2:30 – 4:30 PM \nColumbia Global Centers | Beijing \nNo. 26\, 1F Core Plaza\, 1 Shanyuan Street \nZhongguancun\, Haidian District\, Beijing \nPlease register here. \n  \nThis event is part of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s 70th anniversary summer event series in Beijing. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/supportive-social-environment-for-older-adults-in-china-2/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190713T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190713T170000
DTSTAMP:20190829T163914Z
CREATED:20190613T143310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T163914Z
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SUMMARY:"Alumni Reception & Reporting Asia panel"
DESCRIPTION:Join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute in celebrating our 70th anniversary in Beijing.\nColumbia Global Centers | Beijing\nNo. 26\, 1F Core Plaza\, 1 Shanyuan Street\nZhongguancun\, Haidian District\, Beijing \n  \n2:30-4:00 PM Panel Discussion on “Reporting Asia”\nfeaturing The New York Times journalists\nKeith Bradsher\, Shanghai Bureau Chief/Senior Writer for Asia economics and business\nModerated by Director Eugenia Lean and Professor Xiaobo Lü \n*Due to unforeseen circumstances\, Alexandra Stevenson will no longer be able to attend this panel discussion. \n  \n4:00-5:00 PM Alumni Reception\nHosted by Eugenia Lean\, Director\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; and \nXiaobo Lü\, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science\, Barnard College \n\nPlease register here.\nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/alumni-reception-reporting-asia-panel/
CATEGORIES:Archived Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190703
DTSTAMP:20191009T181019Z
CREATED:20191009T145053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191009T181019Z
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SUMMARY:test event
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URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/test-event/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190627T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190627T203000
DTSTAMP:20190829T165813Z
CREATED:20190610T194538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T165813Z
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SUMMARY:"China’s Cities in Global Context"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nPlease join us in Beijing for a lecture with: \nWeiping Wu\, Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation\, and Director of the M.S. Urban Planning program \nWhile urbanizing China is undergoing socioeconomic and spatial transformation resembling patterns seen elsewhere in the world\, parts of its trajectory and prospect clearly push the limits of contemporary urban and planning theories and experience. Situating China in the global context\, this discussion will focus on the changes in the physical forms of cities as they undergo market reform and population transition. \nJune 27\, 2019\n7:00 pm-8:30 pm \nThis event is part of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s 70th anniversary summer event series in Beijing. \nPlease register here. \n  \nColumbia Global Centers | Beijing\n1F\, Core Plaza. 1 Shanyuan Street\nZhongguancun\, Haidian District\nBeijing\, China 100080 \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/chinas-cities-in-global-context/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190620T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190620T200000
DTSTAMP:20190829T163914Z
CREATED:20190607T131337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T163914Z
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SUMMARY:"Next-Gen AI from Silicon Valley and Beyond"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nPlease join us in Beijing for a lecture with: \nBenjamin Liebman\, Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and Director\, Center for Chinese Legal Studies\, Columbia Law School\nAbigail Hing Wen\, Law ’04\, and Head of Emerging Tech and Senior Counsel\, CTO Office\, AI Products Group; Legal Lead\, Intel Capital AI Investments and Strategic Transactions \nOn June 20\, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute invites you to a dialogue entitled “Next-Gen AI from Silicon Valley and Beyond\,” featuring Professor Benjamin Liebman and Abigail Hing Wen Law ’04. \nThis event also marks the beginning of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s 70th anniversary summer event series in Beijing. \nPlease register here. \n  \nHaiwen & Partners\n20/F\, Fortune Financial Center\n5 Dong San Huan Central Road\nChaoyang District\, Beijing \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and Columbia Law School.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/next-gen-ai-from-silicon-valley-and-beyond/
LOCATION:5 Dong San Huan Central RoadChaoyang District\, Beijing\, 20/F\, Fortune Financial Center\, 5 Dong San Huan Central Road\, Beijing\, China
CATEGORIES:Archived Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190613T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190613T133000
DTSTAMP:20190829T171747Z
CREATED:20190528T153747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T171747Z
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SUMMARY:“A Conversation with Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs\, Dr. Szu-chien Hsu - Taiwan’s response to the US Indo-Pacific Strategy”
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nFeaturing: Szu-chien Hsu\, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan)\nModerated by: Andrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, Columbia University\n\n\nDr. Hsu is the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) with responsibility for relations with the United States\, Canada\, Australia\, New Zealand\, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. He was President of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy from 2016 to 2018; associate research fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica in Taipei from 2003 to 2017; and assistant research fellow at the Institute of International Relations at National Chengchi University from 1998 to 2003. He also taught at Chinese Culture University in Taipei from 1997 to 1998\, and National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu from 2003 to 2017. Dr. Hsu received his B.A. in Political Science from National Taiwan University\, and M.A. and Ph.D in Political Science from Columbia University.\n\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\n\nNo registration required.\nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/a-conversation-with-taiwans-deputy-minister-of-foreign-affairs-dr-szu-chien-hsu/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190517T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190517T173000
DTSTAMP:20190829T163914Z
CREATED:20190611T185222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T163914Z
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SUMMARY:"America in the World: A Tribute to Dorothy Borg"
DESCRIPTION:Conference\nThis conference is part of the New Directions in the Study of US-East Asian Relations under the Dorothy Borg Research Project and featuring the following panels: \n  \nRETHINKING AMERICAN EMPIRE \nCarol Gluck\, Moderator \nRyan Irwin:  Shifts in the intellectual underpinnings of the American empire \nWarren Cohen \nPaul Chamberlin:  World War II\, a war for empire \nBruce Cumings \nKatherine Epstein:  Was the US the greatest threat to world order in the 20th century? \nLloyd Gardner \n  \nUS-EAST ASIAN HISTORY\, THEN AND NOW \n             Lien-Hang Nguyen\, Moderator \nJennifer Miller: US-Japan Relations in the post-cold-war world \nMichael Schaller \nMeredith Oyen: US-China relations through the lens of migration and immigration politics \nTom Christensen \nCindy Ewing: New Perspectives on US-Southeast Asia relations \nRosemary Foot \n  \nMay 17\, 2019 \n10:00 am-5:30 pm \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nThis was a closed event\, not open to the public.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/america-in-the-world-a-tribute-to-dorothy-borg/
CATEGORIES:Archived Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190509T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190509T190000
DTSTAMP:20190829T173312Z
CREATED:20190412T133914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T173312Z
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SUMMARY:"TIANANMEN 30 YEARS LATER: A PORTENT OF CHINA’S AUTHORITARIAN FUTURE?"
DESCRIPTION:Conference\n  \nThe Overseas Press Club hosts conference at: \nClub Quarters\, 40 West 45th Street\, New York\, NY 10036 \nStarting at 12:30 p.m. \n  \nThirty years ago\, as of June 4\, the Chinese leadership made a crucial decision—it sent in the tanks to crush students demonstrating for greater democratic rights\, killing thousands. Come listen to the stories of those students who survived and how they have fought a 30-year shadow war against the Chinese government even though they sought refuge in Western democracies and Taiwan. We also will be joined by American correspondents who covered the event and have watched as the Chinese government under President Xi Jinping has gradually closed off the Chinese people’s access to the Western news media\, fearing that it might infect the people with foreign ideals and set the stage for future political stirrings. \nIt appears that President Xi is determined to prevent his people from ever again demanding greater political rights\, as they did that spring of 1989\, by instituting a sweeping crackdown on dissidents\, lawyers and religious leaders and imposing greater censorship of Chinese-state owned media as well as the Internet and social media. Experts will discuss how his government has detained roughly 1 million Uyghurs and Kazakhs in the western province of Xinjiang and used sophisticated facial recognition technology backed by Artificial Intelligence and Big Data tools to control them. Different provinces and cities are experimenting with social credit rating systems that will prevent wrong-thinking Chinese from getting jobs or getting on airplanes or high-speed trains. Is Xi using advanced technology to build the most sophisticated totalitarian state in history? \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by The U.S. Asian Law Institute at New York University; The Center for U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society/ChinaFile; and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University \n  \n  \nPanel 1: Covering the Event \nLunch\, 12:30 p.m. Dining Room\, 1st Floor \nWestern journalists tell their stories of covering the massacre. They also talk about how the Western media may have played a role in encouraging young protesters; and how now\, Xi is determined to prevent Western news from reaching his population. The Chinese leadership came to understand the power of ideas at Tiananmen and want to prevent any such stirrings from ever occurring again. \nPANELISTS: Carroll Bogert\, former Newsweek in Beijing; Adi Ignatius (invited)\, Dori Jones Yang\, Business Week.  \nMODERATOR: Susan Jakes\, ChinaFile\, former Beijing correspondent for Time. \n  \nPanel 2: Survivors Tell Their Stories \n1:30-2:50 p.m. Priestly Room\, 2nd Floor \nPANELISTS: Wu’er Kaixi\, Fang Zheng and Rose Tang. \nSurvivors tell their stories of what happened on June 4\, 1989 and how they and their families back home have been pursued by the Chinese government for 30 years. \nMODERATOR: William J. Holstein\, event chair\, former OPC president\, and editor of the OPC book\, “Has the American Media Misjudged China?”  \n  \nSpecial Presentation: The Mothers of Tiananmen Victims Demand Justice \n2:50 p.m. to 3 p.m.\, Priestly Room \nMothers of victims of the massacre continue to agitate for justice and compensation even in the face of continued harassment by authorities. \nSharon Hom\, Human Rights in China  \n  \nPanel 3: President Xi’s Effort to Remake Chinese Society \n3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Priestly Room\, 2nd Floor \nPresident Xi Jinping has engaged in a major political crackdown and has re-inserted Communist Party authority into all spheres of Chinese society. He has virtually eliminated human rights lawyers\, tightened censorship of all forms of Chinese media\, prohibited dissemination of Western media\, intensified the ideological training of students\, and imprisoned Muslim populations in Xinjiang. \nPANELISTS: Jerome Cohen\, Wu’er Kaixi\, Andy Nathan\, Teng Biao \nMODERATOR: Sheryl WuDunn\, Pulitzer- and OPC-prize winner for China coverage for The New York Times. \n  \nPanel 4: Technology As a Tool of Control \n4:15 to 5:30 p.m.\, Priestly Room. \nIt was once thought that the Internet and other new types of technology would give more power to an emerging middle class. But Xi’s use of advanced technology may mean he is building the most sophisticated totalitarian state in human history. He has cracked down on the Internet and social media\, and employed networks of cameras and facial recognition technology to identify and track people. Other elements of his high-tech authoritarianism include AI/Big Data\, a DNA database\, and a social credit rating system. In some cases\, American companies are helping. \nPANELISTS: Human Rights Watch China expert Sophie Richardson\, and Christina Larson\, Associated Press science writer in Washington and former technology writer in China and author of a definitive article in the MIT Technology Review. \nMODERATOR: Rebecca Blumenstein\, The New York Times deputy managing editor\, former Beijing correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and a Pulitzer Prize winner \n  \nDrinks and Networking\, 5:30 to 7 p.m.\, Dining Room\, 1st Floor.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/tiananmen-30-years-later-a-portent-of-chinas-authoritarian-future/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190507T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190507T120000
DTSTAMP:20190829T171747Z
CREATED:20190502T173922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T171747Z
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SUMMARY:"A Newly-Discovered Catalogue by Desi Sanggye Gyatso (1653-1705)"
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\n  \nFeaturing Jampa\, Associate Research Librarian\, The Cultural Palace of Nationalities\, Beijing \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nNo registration required. \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/a-newly-discovered-catalogue-by-desi-sanggye-gyatso-1653-1705/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190506T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190506T173000
DTSTAMP:20190829T171559Z
CREATED:20190218T214121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T171559Z
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SUMMARY:CKR Event: "Inventing Modern Sound Culture  The Transnational Recording Industry in Colonial Korea (1910-1945)"
DESCRIPTION:CKR Manuscript Workshop\n  \nFeaturing: Hye Eun Choi\, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow \nDiscussants:\nCharles Armstrong\, Columbia University\nKim Brandt\, Columbia University\nMichael Denning\, Yale University\nKeith Howard\, SOAS\, University of London \n  \nChoi’s manuscript\, tentatively titled “Inventing Modern Sound Culture The Transnational Recording Industry in Colonial Korea (1910-1945)\,” is the first book project that traces the birth of the Korean recording industry at the intersection of capitalism\, colonialism\, and globalized modern sound culture. Through an examination of government\, media\, and corporate sources\, Choi demonstrates that transnational record companies\, rather than colonial authority\, initiated the formation of the recording industry in the Japanese Empire in the early 20th century. That is\, utilizing funding\, technology\, and master recordings from the West\, the record companies sought profits in both Japan and its colonies. Their activities\, in turn\, helped expose Korean audiences to globally popular recorded music almost simultaneously with audiences in the Japanese metropole. In addition\, the record companies allowed Korean sound professionals to manage the production of Korean records due to their ability to create successful products in their own market. Therefore\, along with their Japanese counterparts\, these professionals produced Korean records in globally influenced yet locally inflected genres which were consumed across East Asia. Rather than approaching Korean sound professionals as a monolithic group of colonized subjects\, Choi pays close attention to the ways in which sound professionals of various educational backgrounds\, genders\, and social positions negotiated\, competed\, and cooperated to earn reputations in their fields and receive the financial rewards they desired. This dissertation thus foregrounds their individual agency in the modern transformation of sound culture in colonial Korea. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\nBy RSVP only – open only to graduate students and faculty for observation. Must RSVP at jk2857@columbia.edu to attend as an observer. \n  \nCo-sponsored by\nThe Academy of Korean Studies\, Seoul Korea; Columbia Alumni Association\, Korea; the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/manuscript-workshop-the-making-of-the-korean-recording-industry-1910-1945/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190504T173000
DTSTAMP:20190829T173312Z
CREATED:20190411T183400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T173312Z
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SUMMARY:"Global May Fourth: One Hundred Years"
DESCRIPTION:A Conference at Columbia University\n \nFriday\, May 3 – 403 Kent \n6:00 PM – 7:30 PM \nIntroduction by Anatoly Detwyler and Ulug Kuzuoglu \nKeynote Speech by Bryna Goodman (University of Oregon) \n7:30 PM – 9:00 PM \nWine & Cheese Reception \n  \n  \nSaturday\, May 4 – Faculty Room\, Low Library \n9:00 AM – 9:15 AM \nWelcome & Introduction by Safwan Masri (Columbia University) \nOpening Remarks by Lydia H. Liu (Columbia University) \n  \n9:15 AM – 10:45 AM \nFirst Panel: The Great War and the May Fourth \nXU Guoqi (University of Hong Kong) \nGUO Shuanglin (Renmin University) \nDiscussant: Shang Wei \n  \n10:45 AM – 11:00 AM \nCoffee Break \n  \n11:00 AM – 1:00 PM \nSecond Panel: Global May Fourth \nUlug Kuzuoglu (Columbia University) \nMichael Gibbs Hill (William & Mary) \nChengzhi Wang (Columbia University) \nDiscussant: Marwa Elshakry \n  \n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM \nLunch Break \n  \n2:00 PM – 3:30 PM \nThird Panel: Labor\, Language\, and Life \nYurou Zhong (University of Toronto) \nGal Gvili (McGill University) \nDiscussant: Andrew Nathan \n  \n3:30 PM – 4:00 PM \nCoffee Break \n  \n4:00 PM – 5:30 PM \nFourth Panel: Critical Legacies \nViren Murthy (University of Wisconsin-Madison) \nPANG Laikwan (Chinese University of Hong Kong) \nDiscussant: Eugenia Lean \n  \nClick here for abstracts and the full program. \n  \nCosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, the Program in Chinese Literature and Culture\, the Huang and Lin Fund\, the Lian and Nie Fund\, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/global-may-fourth-one-hundred-years/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190502T133000
DTSTAMP:20190829T165813Z
CREATED:20190128T165037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T165813Z
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SUMMARY:“Labor Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China”
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nRachel Murphy\, Professor of Chinese Development and Society and Head of School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies\, University of Oxford \n  \nProfessor Murphy’s research examines transformations in China due to inter-related processes of industrialization\, urbanization\, demographic transition\, and marketization. She has conducted in-depth longitudinal ethnography and surveys across China. Her 2002 monograph offered one of the first analyses of the impact of return migration on rural China. She has also edited several books\, such as Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins; Media\, Identity and Struggle in 21st Century China. She is currently writing a book about the children of rural-urban labor migrants in two rapidly-urbanizing interior provinces\, which forms the basis of her talk. \n  \nSchool of Social Work\, Room C03 \nNo registration required. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Population Research Center.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/labor-migration-and-social-development-in-contemporary-china/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190501T133000
DTSTAMP:20191007T195724Z
CREATED:20190315T142540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T195724Z
UID:12880-1556712000-1556717400@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:"Yangchuk Tso in Conversation: Contemporary Cinema and Pop Music in Tibet"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\n\nFeaturing:  Yangchuk Tso\, Actress and contemporary singer-songwriter \nYangchuk Tso\, critically acclaimed Tibetan actress and contemporary singer\, will speak on her experiences in film and television in China\, reflect on contemporary Tibetan cinema\, and share thoughts on her own film making practice before engaging in a broader discussion on Tibetan cultural production in the 21st century with Eveline Washul and Riga Shakya. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nYangchuk Tso is an award winning Tibetan actress and contemporary singer-songwriter based in Beijing and Xining. She has appeared in numerous films and television dramas. She is a graduate of the Central Academy of Drama’s directing program and is currently working on an ethnographic documentary film on a nunnery in Amdo\, Eastern Tibet. \n\n\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\n\nNo registration required.\nFor any press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu\n\n\n\nhttps://www.archive.weai.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Yangchuk-Tso.mp3
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/a-conversation-with-yangchuk-tso-negotiating-ethnicity-gender-and-language-rights-in-contemporary-tibetan-pop-music-and-cinema/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190429T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190429T173000
DTSTAMP:20190829T165813Z
CREATED:20190418T131431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T165813Z
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SUMMARY:Trump’s Indo-Pacific Strategy & the ASEAN and Chinese responses
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nFeaturing: \nSpeaker: Dr. Amy Searight\, Senior Advisor and Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies \nRespondent: Dr. Andrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, Columbia University \nModerator: Dr. Ann Marie Murphy\, Professor\, Seton Hall University \nThe Trump administration has articulated a ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ strategy as the new modus operandi for the United States’ policy on Asia\, but is it a useful organizing concept?   Please join Dr. Amy Searight for a discussion of the Trump administration’s ‘free and open Indo-Pacific” and the Southeast Asian response.  Dr. Andrew Nathan will provide a Chinese view of the ‘free and open Indo-Pacific” strategy in promises to be a stimulating discussion of an important topic. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nNo registration required. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu \nThis event is co-sponsored by the New York Southeast Asia Network.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/trumps-indo-pacific-strategy-the-asean-and-chinese-responses/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190429T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190429T133000
DTSTAMP:20191007T194428Z
CREATED:20190321T151439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T194428Z
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SUMMARY:"Sovereignty in China and the long Legacies of History"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nFeaturing: Maria Adele Carrai\, Senior Researcher at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies – KU Leuven; Fellow at the Asia Center of Harvard University\nModerated by: Madeleine Zelin\, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History \n  \nA quest for sovereignty characterizes China’s modern history: charting an uninterrupted course since the nineteenth-century Opium Wars\, it reflects the country’s tortuous journey within the history of international law. The current territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas\, the reunification with Taiwan\, and the difficulties with the autonomous regions are all related to the most recent definition of China as a sovereign state\, and to the introduction of international law. During the nineteenth century\, Qing officials started to use sovereignty not only against the encroachment of Western powers\, but also to unite under one single sovereign authority the vast territory that was colonized and inscribed within a ritual geography in the course of the two previous centuries of imperial expansion. In a way\, the vast Qing multiethnic and multinormative empire continues to haunt the Chinese modern nation: the Chinese Communist Party’s endeavor\, as specified in the Constitution\, is still the reunification of the motherland. While remaining a hard-won prize after what has been rhetorically called the ‘century of humiliations\,’ more recently with the official codification of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in 1954\, sovereignty has become the cornerstone of China’s foreign policy. How did these sovereign claims come about? When did they start\, and why? How are these claims different from or similar to those made in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, and what can the continuities and discontinuities in usage tell us about the current and future trajectory of China in international society? These are among the questions that the presentation will address. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\nNo registration required.\nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu. \n \n \nhttps://www.archive.weai.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Maria-Adele-Carrai.mp3
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/sovereignty-in-china-and-the-long-legacies-of-history/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190428T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190428T210000
DTSTAMP:20190829T172950Z
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SUMMARY:"They are One Hundred Years Old"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special preview of this Tibetan documentary film\, introduced by Riga Shakya. After the film\, stay for a Q&A with the director\, Dukar Tserang\, and discussant\, Nelson Walker.\nFeaturing: \nDukar Tserang\, Nelson Walker and Riga Shakya \n  \nThey are One Hundred Years Old \nA Dukar Tserang Film \nIn his previous life\, he was her husband. In this life\, he is her grandson. He is the same person. In her previous life\, she was his wife. In this life\, she is his grandmother. She is the same person. They live under the same roof.This film shows the real life story of a Tibetan nomad family\, whose head of the family was reincarnated within the same household and leads two different lives with his “wife.” His wife cares for him just as before\, but there are also voices of dissent. In the new life in front of him\, he feels lost but he also has his own voice. This year\, their combined age is one hundred years old. \n  \nAbout the speakers: \nDukar Tserang is an independent filmmaker\, sound director\, composer\, screenwriter\, and director. He graduated from Beijing Film Academy\, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Tibetan Literature at Northwest Nationalities University in Lanzhou. He is Pema Tseden’s film partner and has been involved in the making of award-winning Tibetan films and theatrical movies throughout China. He established his own studio\, SoundFilm. \nNelson Walker has made numerous films including iThemba|Hope (Sundance Channel\, 2005)\, LUMO (PBS/P.O.V. 2007\, Student Academy Award® Winner)\, and Summer Pasture (PBS/Independent Lens 2012)\, which won a Peabody Award. Most recently\, Nelson was one of the Directors along with the late\, great Albert Maysles of the feature documentary IN TRANSIT (Winner\, Special Jury Mention\, Tribeca Film Festival 2015). Nelson is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University. \n  \n  \n511 Dodge Hall \nNo registration required. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu \nThis event is co-sponsored Co-sponsored by:Modern Tibetan Studies\, Film and Media Studies\, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. \nThis event is part of the Modern Tibetan Studies at 20 series.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/they-are-one-hundred-years-old/
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190425T190000
DTSTAMP:20190829T165813Z
CREATED:20190417T164418Z
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SUMMARY:"Tibetan Literature in Translation: Pema Tseden’s Stories of Tibet"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with the translators of Enticement\, the first English-language anthology of short stories by Pema Tseden.\n \nAbout this Event\nPema Tseden is Tibet’s most prestigious filmmaker and an accomplished fiction writer. Enticement: Stories of Tibet translates his stories originally written either in Tibetan or in Chinese. His writing uses a variety of literary styles and sources ranging from traditional Tibetan oral tales to magical realism\, surrealism\, and the theater of the absurd to speak with empathy and humor about the Tibetan experience in the age of globalization. \nHe has released six major feature films to date winning prestigious awards in China\, Japan\, and Taiwan. His most recent film\, Jinpa\, won an award for best screenplay at the 75th Venice International Film Festival in 2018. \nThe discussion will include writer and scholar\, Pema Bhum\, translators of Enticement\, Michael Monhart and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani\, moderated by Lauran Hartley. \nParticipants\nPema Bhum is author of two Tibetan memoirs of the Cultural Revolution\, Six Stars with a Crooked Neck and Remembering Dorje Tsering. He was an associate professor of Tibetan Literature at the Northwest Nationalities Institute\, PRC\, and visiting assistant professor of Tibetan Language at Indiana University. At present\, he is director of Latse in New York City and Lecturer in Tibetan at Columbia University. \nMichael Monhart is an alumnus of the Tibetan Studies Department at Columbia University. In addition to his translation work\, he is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. \nPatricia Schiaffini-Vedani is one of the pioneers in the study of Sinophone Tibetan literature. Her volume Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change\, co-edited with Lauran Hartley\, was published in 2008. She teaches Chinese language and China and Tibet related courses at Texas State University. Dr. Schiaffini is also the President and Founder of Tibetan Arts and Literature Initiative\, an NGO devoted to training Tibetan teachers and promoting Tibetan-language education and literacy in China. \nLauran Hartley is Tibetan Studies Librarian for the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University\, and also serves as an affiliated lecturer in Tibetan Literature for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She received her Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies from Indiana University and is co-editor of the book Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change. Her current research focuses on Tibetan literary production and intellectual discourse from the eighteenth century to the present. \nFree and open to the public. Please register here: https://bit.ly/2Pd02Um\nCo-sponsored by: Modern Tibetan Studies\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, and the Italian Academy at Columbia University.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/tibetan-literature-in-translation-pema-tsedens-stories-of-tibet/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190425T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190425T180000
DTSTAMP:20190829T165812Z
CREATED:20190128T165234Z
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SUMMARY:"Placing the Anthropocene: The Pacific Ocean in Planetary History"
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\nFeaturing Gregory T. Cushman\, Associate Professor of International Environmental History\, University of Kansas \nModerated by Paul Kreitman\, Assistant Professor of Japanese History\, Columbia University \nIn its conventional form\, the Anthropocene is a Eurocentric and terracentric concept that needs to be provincialized. What might a history of the Anthropocene look like if we place the Pacific Ocean and its surrounding territories at its center? This keynote presentation will examine each of the major proposed starting points for the Anthropocene and their purported causes from the perspective of the Pacific Ocean and its surrounding territories—from late Pleistocene overkill to the atoll nuclear tests of the twentieth century. East Asia\, Australia\, and the Americas and Pacific Islands have all played unheralded roles in several historical trends typically associated with European-driven expansion. In any case\, we need to give careful attention to regional histories and their potential contribution to decentered global histories before making any firm decisions about the starting point\, root causes\, and potential meanings of this proposed “human epoch” of planetary history.  \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nGregory T. Cushman is Associate Professor of International Environmental History at the University of Kansas (USA). His 2013 book Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History (Cambridge University Press) won four international awards\, including the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History from the American Historical Association. In 2018\, it appeared in a revised Spanish translation (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos). He has published a range of articles in climate history\, the history of Indigenous peoples\, and history of science and technology. In 2015-17\, he received a prestigious Carnegie Fellowship and residential fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich to research the historical foundations of the Anthropocene\, which will result in two books: one on Debating the Anthropocene and another on the global history of humanity’s relationship with the lithosphere and mineral kingdom. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nNo registration required. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King  ak4364@columbia.edu \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/colonial-landscapes-and-seascapes-the-center-of-pacific-world-history/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190424T133000
DTSTAMP:20190829T171747Z
CREATED:20190218T215458Z
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SUMMARY:CKR Event: "The Dictatorship of Capital: Urban Redevelopment and the Question of Violence in Post-Authoritarian South Korea"
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium\nFeaturing: Hae Yeon Choo\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, University of Toronto \n  \nThis talk examines the relationship between democratic citizenship\, capitalist profit-making\, and violence. In particular\, it focuses on an evictee protest against urban redevelopment in Yongsan\, South Korea in 2009\, resulting in a fatal police raid. Based on the parliamentary hearings\, court documents\, and oral history from protesters in the aftermath of what has been called the Yongsan disaster\, Hae Yeon Choo delves into how evictee protesters theorize the conditions of displacement and exclusion from urban space and citizenship as “the dictatorship of capital.” Situating the Yongsan Disaster in the socio-political context of South Korea\, Hae Yeon Choo calls attention to the social movement legacy of evictee movements and their increasing isolation and unexpected revitalization in post-authoritarian South Korea. By examining the voices of evictee activists\, this article sheds light on the limits of formal democracy and the vision of radical democracy based on the politics of “the have-nots.” \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nHae Yeon Choo is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and is a 2018-2019 Deutsche Bank Member of Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton\, NJ). She is the author of Decentering Citizenship: Gender\, Labor\, and Migrant Rights in South Korea (Stanford University Press\, 2016)\, a comparative study of three groups of Filipina women in South Korea: factory workers\, wives of South Korean men\, and hostesses at American military camp town clubs. Her current research project examines the politics of land ownership in contemporary South Korea\, delving into macro-level political contestations over land rights\, together with the narratives of people who pursue class mobility through real estate speculation. She has also translated Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider and Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Feminist Thought into Korean. \n  \n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Sociology
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-dictatorship-of-capital-urban-redevelopment-and-the-question-of-violence-in-post-authoritarian-south-korea/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190423T133000
DTSTAMP:20191007T193005Z
CREATED:20190301T170946Z
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SUMMARY:"Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals "
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nFeaturing:  \nSebastian Veg\, Professor of intellectual history and literature of 20th century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS)\, Paris; Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong\nModerated by: Eugenia Lean\,  Director\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. \n  \nWhile China’s intellectuals throughout the twentieth century were defined in terms of their elite position and responsibility for the nation\, this role was profoundly challenged after the crackdown on the democracy movement of 1989. In its aftermath\, new groups of intellectuals emerged from grassroots society\, devoted to constituting alternative forms of knowledge outside the academy: amateur historians researching the Mao era\, amateur ethnographers using documentary films to investigate social issues\, grassroots lawyers working with disenfranchised groups to build rights-awareness\, and citizen bloggers and journalists challenging the state control of the public sphere. Although these groups have come under increasing pressure since 2012\, their ideas continue to inspire new dynamics in China’s society today. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nSebastian Veg is a Professor (directeur d’études) of intellectual history and literature of 20th century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS)\, Paris and an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has written on Chinese intellectuals from May Fourth to the present\, the memory of the Mao era\, and the democracy movement in Hong Kong. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/minjian-the-rise-of-chinas-grassroots-intellectuals/
CATEGORIES:Archived Events
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