Fairbank Center - Highlights from past events

Friday, May 1, 2009

INTRODUCTION William C. Kirby, Harvard University
“Myths and Lessons of Contemporary Chinese History”

POLITIES
The Foundations of Communist Rule
David Shambaugh, George Washington University
“The Foundations of Communist Rule: The Coercive Dimension”
Shen Zhihua, East China Normal University
“The Sino-Soviet Alliance, the Korean War, and the Consolidation
of CCP Rule” (Interpreter: Di Yin Lu)
Chen Yung-fa, Academia Sinica
“Catching Up on Class Struggle in the Communist Mecca, Gutian,
in 1955”
Chair: William C. Kirby, Harvard University

CULTURE, BELIEF, PRACTICE
Communities of Faith and Ethnicity
Henrietta Harrison, Harvard University
“Transnational Religions and the Theory of Secularism in a Globalizing China since 1949”
Robert Weller, Boston University
“Religious Growth and Regulation:
Reconfiguring State and Society in China”
Xiaoyuan Liu, Iowa State University
“Rediscovering the Frontiers in Recent Chinese History”
Chair: Mark Elliott, Harvard University

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Party Rule and Popular Will
Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University
“Sixty is the New Forty: Reflections on the Health of the
Chinese Body Politic”
Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University
“Popular Protest and the Foundations of Party Rule”
Niu Dayong, Peking University
“Agriculture, Import, and Diplomacy: Three Case Studies on the
Interaction between Chinese Party Rule and Popular Will”
Chair: Merle Goldman, Boston University

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Spatial Design and Urban Life
Peter G. Rowe, Harvard University
“Urban and Residential District Making: 1949-2009”
Margaret Crawford, Harvard University
“From the Village to the City”
Chair: Peter K. Bol, Harvard University

MULTIPLATFORM PREVIEW:
FILM AND RESEARCH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Building China Modern: I.M. Pei and the Suzhou Museum
Eugene B. Shirley, Jr., PACEM Productions

SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Deng Xiaoping and the Era of Reform
Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University

WEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Production of Wealth: Chinese Enterprise under Socialism and “Reform”
Elisabeth Köll, Harvard University
“The Transformation of China's Entrepreneurs: A Historical
Perspective”
Jean C. Oi, Stanford University
“Political Constraints on Profit in China's SOEs”
Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Urbanization and Wealth Creation in China”
Chair: Regina Abrami, Harvard University

WEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Health, Environment, and Social Change in China
Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University
“Health and Moral Transformation in China”
Barry Bloom, Harvard University
“Health Care Reform in China”
Michael B. McElroy, Harvard University
“China's Climate Challenge: Options for a Sustainable Energy Future”
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, University of Vienna
“Good Governance in a Non-Democratic Context: The Case of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme and Its Implementation in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region”
Chair: Yuanli Liu, Harvard University

Saturday, May 2, 2009

WEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Distribution and Re-Distribution of Wealth: Socialism and Its Aftermath
Feng Xiaocai, Fudan University
(Interpreter: Song Chen)
Dwight H. Perkins, Harvard University
“Transitioning from High Investment Export-led Growth
to a Consumer Society”
Martin K. Whyte, Harvard University
“Myth of the Social Volcano: Popular Reactions to Rising Inequality in China”
Chair: Li Jin, Harvard University

POLITIES
China from the Viewpoint of the Socialist World:
1949 / 1989 / 2009
Yang Kuisong, Peking University and East China Normal University (Interpreter: Di Yin Lu)
Charles S. Maier, Harvard University
“Weighing the Chinese Option: East Germany in Autumn 1989”
Timothy J. Colton, Harvard University
“Russia and the Road Not Taken”
Chair: Charles S. Maier, Harvard University

SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Lei Feng Revisited
Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University

POLITIES
Fragility and Strength in International Relations
Robert S. Ross, Boston College
“China's Two Rises--1949 and Post-Mao China:
War and Peace in East Asia”
Alastair Iain Johnston, Harvard University
"Is China Rising?"
Alan M. Wachman, Tufts University
“Interests, Ideas, Insecurities and Images:
How Beijing's Diplomacy Gets 'A Rise' Out of Us”
Chair: Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University

CULTURE, BELIEF, PRACTICE
Destruction and Renewal of Cultural and Educational Elites
Merle Goldman, Boston University
“Differences in the Roles of Intellectuals under China's Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes”
Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia
“The End of Intellectuals: 60 Years of Service, Subversion, and Selling”
William C. Kirby, Harvard University
“Chinese Universities and Liberal Education in the 21st Century”
Chair: Henry Rosovsky, Harvard University

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Law, Justice, and Governance
Klaus Mühlhahn, Indiana University
“ ‘Turning Rubbish into Something Useful’ - Criminal Justice in Mao's China, 1949-1968”
William P. Alford, Harvard University
“The Legal System at 60...Is the Ear Attuned?”
Chair: Julian Chang, Harvard University

CULTURE, BELIEF, PRACTICE
Assessing the Arts in the Era of the PRC
Chang-tai Hung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
“The Politics of National Celebrations in China”
Eileen Chow, Harvard University
“Verité China--the Cinema of Everyday Life”
Chair: Eugene Wang, Harvard University

FILM SCREENING
“The Big Parade”
directed by Chen Kaige, cinematography by Zhang Yimou
Comments by Eugene Wang, Harvard University
“What Was Being Paraded?”

THE PRC’S FUTURE IN LIGHT OF ITS PAST
The PRC in Chinese Historical Perspective
Michael Puett, Harvard University
“The Antiquity of Modernity in the PRC”
Peter K. Bol, Harvard University
“Recruiting the Bureaucracy: Ideology versus Talent”
Michael Szonyi, Harvard University
“Ming Fever: the Past in the Present in the PRC”
Paul A. Cohen, Wellesley College
“The Tenacity of Culture: Old Stories in the New China”
Mark C. Elliott, Harvard University
“Imperial Minds and National Frontiers:
Inner Asia and China in the New Century”
Chair: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University

THE PRC’S FUTURE IN LIGHT OF ITS PAST
Historical Memory and China’s Future: A Roundtable
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrizk, University of Vienna
Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University
Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University
William C. Kirby, Harvard University
Chair: William C. Kirby, Harvard University