2017-2018 Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Annual Report

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CHINA STUDIES 中国研究 新 动向

2 0 17–1 8 A N N U A L R E P O R T 哈 佛大学 费正清中国 研究中心2 0 1 7–1 8周年 报 告

FOUNDED IN 1955, THE FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY ADVANCES SCHOLARSHIP IN ALL FIELDS OF CHINA STUDIES

哈佛大学费正清中国研究 中心成立于1955年，致力于 在哈佛大学推进各领域的 中国研究

Stone lions stand guard outside Harvard’s Department for East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Photo: James Evans

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“WITH U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS MOVING INTO UNCHARTED WATERS, EDUCATING AND INFORMING POLICY MAKERS AND THE PUBLIC IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.”

- MICHAEL SZONYI, FROM THE CHINA QUESTIONS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2018

A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR 主任寄语 In my last “Director’s Word” I wrote about the recent celebration of the Fairbank Center’s 60th anniversary. The occasion prompted a series of conversations about the Center’s future direction. The anniversary drew our attention to the enormous diversity of China-related activities across Harvard.

No longer is the Fairbank Center the only place at Harvard where talented scholars and students work on and with China. We have been working hard since the 60th-anniversary celebrations to build the Fairbank Center into a hub for the various China-related activities across Harvard, building connections among schools, departments, and disciplines.

BUILDING NEW COMMUNITIES OF CHINA SCHOLARS 培养哈佛的中国学者群 We have also tried to expand the Center’s long tradition of contributing to public discourse on China. Whether by inviting scholars from beyond the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to join in our activities and co-hosting events with other Chinaand Asia-related centers, or by our extensive outreach and social media efforts, the Center is helping to build new communities of China scholars at Harvard and to bring their expertise to a public audience.

Our most visible accomplishment this year is directly tied to our 60th anniversary celebration.

The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power, a collection of 36 essays by leading scholars associated with the Center and co-edited by myself and our former Executive Director Jennifer Rudolph, was published by Harvard University Press earlier this year. Each contributor was asked to come up with a question that they thought Americans should be asking about China, and then to sum up their lifetimes of research, reflections, and scholarship in a short, accessible essay in an attempt to provide an answer to the question.

The China Questions exemplifies what we do best at the Fairbank Center. It draws together a range of experts, each of them working in their own disciplines, to advance new and useful knowledge about this rising power.

Another way in which we advance scholarship on China is through exhibitions of art, film, photography, and other visual media. A highlight of the year was our exhibition of dazibao—or “bigcharacter posters”—from the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). We believe this was the first-ever exhibition of big-character posters in the United States, and it is certainly the first time that these posters have been displayed outside of China. A standing-room-only panel discussion, featuring faculty, alumni, and associates marked the opening event of the exhibition. I was particularly struck by the many visitors who came to the exhibition; some of them were familiar faces, but many were involved for the first time in the activities of the Fairbank Center.

We receive many impressive visitors to the Fairbank Center each year, including scholars, practitioners, and public figures from Greater China, East Asia, and North America. These visitors represent a wide range of well-informed views and experiences. For example, during the last year we welcomed a prominent film studies scholar who has faced significant political pressure for holding a commemoration of the events of June 4th 1989 as well as a scholar from a college of Marxism and other China Studies scholars from across the globe.

It is precisely the range of views and experiences represented here that makes the Fairbank Center a world-leading place to study China.

THE CHINA QUESTIONS EXEMPLIFIES WHAT WE DO BEST AT THE FAIRBANK CENTER: IT DRAWS TOGETHER A RANGE OF EXPERTS, EACH OF THEM WORKING IN THEIR OWN DISCIPLINES, TO ADVANCE NEW AND USEFUL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THIS RISING POWER.

A WORLD-LEADING PLACE TO STUDY CHINA 世界一流的中国研究中心 As always, our events calendar continues to be full. We hosted or co-sponsored a total of 180 events during the past academic year, working with more than thirty other centers and departments across the Harvard campus and beyond. Our nine faculty-led lecture series continue to draw leading scholars to present their work to a Harvard audience and our conferences and panel discussions filled our lecture halls. Some of the highlights of this year’s events included a public forum featuring the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States, Cui Tiankai; an “instant analysis” panel on the 19th Party Congress; and special events featuring Harvard Kennedy School colleagues Nicholas Burns and Graham Allison.

Although 2017-2018 was a banner year for the Fairbank Center and for China Studies at Harvard, the same cannot be said for U.S.-China relations.

Mistrust and misunderstanding seem to be growing on both sides of our shared Pacific Ocean, and there are already many in the U.S. who wonder about the possibilities for continued constructive

PURSUING WORLDCLASS, OBJECTIVE, AND IMPORTANT RESEARCH ON ALL ASPECTS OF CHINA—PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

engagement. Meanwhile, developments within China are also raising concerns among many scholars. Issues of academic and intellectual freedom do not exhaust the list of such concerns, but as scholars we are obviously especially concerned that these freedoms, and the relative openness that have served China so well during the last forty years, be maintained.

At the Fairbank Center, we will continue to pursue world-class, objective, and important research on all aspects of China—past, present, and future.

We will continue to inform the public and elevate the national conversation about China. Where appropriate, we will also attempt to share our expertise to support the work of policy makers.

While in general terms our course is clear, I welcome your thoughts about how the Fairbank Center should adjust to our changing environment.

MICHAEL SZONYI Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University

Left: Director Michael Szonyi speaks at the Fairbank Center. Photo: Lisa Abitbol

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To celebrate our 60th Anniversary last year, the Fairbank Center published an edited volume with Harvard University Press.

Edited by Director Michael Szonyi and former Executive Director Jennifer Rudolph, The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power includes 36 chapters authored by the Center’s faculty and affiliates.

Each chapter asks a key question about China and the state of China Studies, and answers in terms accessible to even those unfamiliar with China.

“This book cuts through the cacophony of information, misinformation, and nonsense on China that circulates in our modern world to give us reliable answers to crucial questions about one of the world’s most important nations.”

– Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of China

“Readers will come away with information concerning novel ways of thinking about everything from early philosophical traditions to modern visions of utopia and dystopia, from international relations to struggles for political legitimacy.”

– Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of China in the 21st Century

“Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked.”

Harvard University Press, 2018

Now available from Harvard University Press. Check out our website for further reading recommendations from our faculty. fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/china-questions

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KEY QUESTIONS INCLUDE: Is the Chinese Communist Regime Legitimate? – Elizabeth J. Perry Does Mao Still Matter? – Roderick MacFarquhar Can the Chinese Communist Party Learn from Chinese Emperors? – Yuhua Wang What Does the Rise of China Mean for the United States? – Robert S. Ross Will Urbanization Save the Chinese Economy or Destroy It? – Meg Rithmire What Can China Teach Us about Fighting Poverty? – Nara Dillon Can China Address Air Pollution and Climate Change? – Michael B. McElroy Why Does the End of the One-Child Policy Matter? – Susan Greenhalgh Who Is Confucius in Today’s China? – Michael Puett How Have Chinese Writers Imagined China’s Future? – David Der-wei Wang Has Chinese Propaganda Won Hearts and Minds? – Jie Li What Is the Future of China’s Past? – Stephen Owen

Right: Presenting “The China Questions” to Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister and Director of the Asia Society, New York, at the Harvard University Asia Center’s 20th Anniversary Symposium. Left to right: Ezra Vogel, Michael Szonyi, Kevin Rudd, Karen Thornber. Photo: Lisa Abitbol

“DESPITE THE INCREASE IN THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION ABOUT CHINA, IT IS STILL TOUGH TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL. WE MIGHT EVEN SAY THAT JUST AS THE UNITED STATES HAS A TRADE DEFICIT WITH CHINA, IT ALSO HAS AN UNDERSTANDING DEFICIT.” - MICHAEL SZONYI, INTRODUCTION TO THE CHINA QUESTIONS

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EXHIBITING CHINA’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION 我中心的大字报特展 A WORLD-DEBUT EXHIBITION OF DAZIBAO AND WOODCUTS FROM 1960s CHINA 中国1960年代大字报与木刻画特展 Fifty years ago, China entered one of the darkest phases of its modern history, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a period of terrible violence that scarred an entire generation of Chinese people. During the Cultural Revolution “big-character posters” (dazibao大 字报), large, hand-written signs, were pasted on walls throughout China. Their content criticized local officials, colleagues, teachers, bosses, co-workers, friends, and even family members—virtually no one was exempt—for a wide range of supposed political transgressions in what often became a cycle of high-stakes political attacks and counter-attacks. 半个世纪以前，中国进入了现代历史上最为黑暗的时期之 一：无产阶级文化大革命。这段充斥着暴力的历史给一整 代中国人留下了伤痕。大字报是以大字书写、张贴于墙上 的海报，文革期间风行全中国。其主要内容在于批判官员 上司、同事同僚和熟人旧友的各种所谓的政治错误，从中 衍生出高风险的政治斗争与反斗争的循环，无人幸免。

“Big-character poster” (left) and propaganda poster (above) on display at the Fairbank Center’s exhibition, Fall 2017.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, the Fairbank Center presented the first-ever U.S. exhibition of “big-character posters” and woodblock prints. We believe that it was the first time that these dazibao have been exhibited anywhere in the world. To accompany the exhibition, we held a number of academic activities to encourage scholarly analysis on the remarkable objects displayed in the exhibition and to promote new understandings and new interpretations about the period that produced them. 本次展览可能是美国首次文革大字报与版画的展览。同 时，我们也筹办了一系列配合展览的学术活动，鼓励学 者参与分析这批特别的展品，从而推进对文革时期的新 诠新解。

Below: An excerpt from a dazibao on display at the Fairbank Center, fall 2017

Above: Visitors to the exhibition examine original dazibao at the Fairbank Center, fall 2017. Photo: James Evans

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OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

In the 62 years since the Fairbank Center’s establishment, the landscape of China Studies has shifted dramatically.

首要目标

To maintain the Fairbank Center’s position as one of the leading centers for China Studies outside of China, we are pioneering new directions for research.

Our strategic priorities focus our research in three valuable areas:

As China Studies expands into new fields—such as medicine, the environment, and even robotics—we are here to develop and support research that defines what it means to study China. Our unrivaled faculty expertise ensures our adaptability and invaluable position as a partner for China-related research at Harvard and beyond.

TRANSFORMING DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP ON CHINA 更新技术 Transforming digital scholarship on China by supporting research, collaboration, and communication.

INSPIRING RESEARCH ON CHINA ON THE WORLD STAGE 鼓励创新 Inspiring research on China’s global interactions by supporting innovative studies on China’s changing relationships with the world.

ENGAGING PUBLIC AND POLICY-MAKING COMMUNITIES 多面合作 Contributing to public discourse on China by engaging non-academic and policy-making communities.

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TRANSFORMING DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP ON CHINA 更新技术 The use of digital technologies for scholarly research, collaboration, and communication is one of the most exciting developments in academia. To support this ground-breaking research, we recently received a grant from the Hou Family Foundation and the Chiang Chingkuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange to pioneer research in three areas:

CURATORSHIP: 数字化文献收集

Building on the success of our postdoctoral fellowships in the digital humanities and social sciences, our new Digital China curator will provide resources for Harvard faculty and students on the use of new digital research methods.

TEACHING DIGITAL METHODS: 数字化研究培训

Since 2014, we have supported teaching workshops and for-credit courses on digital methods. This year’s workshop was organized

by Amelia Ying Qin, 2017-18 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, and the for-credit course was taught by Donald Sturgeon.

BUILDING WORLD-CLASS DATABASES: 建设世界一流的数据库

We support new and innovative digital techniques and data-sharing platforms in the humanities and social sciences, including the China Biographical Database Project, the China Historical Geographical Information System Project, and the Chinese Text Project.

Image: Digital visualization of connections within the Buddhist Canon, courtesy of Donald Sturgeon

INSPIRING RESEARCH ON CHINA ON THE WORLD STAGE 鼓励创新 China’s growing role in global affairs requires greater research and public understanding about the interactions between Greater China and the rest of the world. In partnership with leading research centers at Harvard, the Fairbank Center is building on our team of specialists on U.S.-China relations to engage in innovative studies on China’s relationships with Africa and India. In addition, we launched a new three-year project on “China on the World Stage,” and founded a new collaborative research partnership on western China with Sichuan University.

CHINA-AFRICA INITIATIVE: 推动中非研究

To further our integrative research agenda for Asia-Africa Studies, Harvard’s Fairbank Center, Asia Center, and Center for African Studies continued our four-year conference series at the Harvard Shanghai Center on “Africa-Asia Connections” on November 16-17, 2017.

MERITOCRACY IN CHINA AND INDIA: 中国与印度的能者治国理念

Furthering our collaboration with Harvard’s Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, we supported conferences at Harvard on February 9, 2018 and at the Harvard Center Shanghai on May 16, 2018 on the differences in “talent” and “meritocracy” in India and China, past, present, and future.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON WESTERN CHINA: 四川大学西部中国研究中心、哈佛 大学费正清中国研究中心合作研究 中心

After launching a new collaborative partnership for the study of western China with Sichuan University in 2016, we supported faculty research visits and a Tibetan and Sanskrit language workshop in Chengdu.

CHINA ON THE WORLD STAGE: 世界舞台上的中国

The Fairbank Center, in partnership with the Institute of Science and Development at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, launched a series of annual workshops in May 2018 to explore the impact of China’s presence on the world stage.

Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong, Oppenheimer Faculty Director Harvard Center for African Studies, speaks with Helen Hai, CEO of the Made in Africa Initiative, at the “Africa-Asia Connections” conference in November 2017.

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ENGAGING PUBLIC AND POLICY-MAKING COMMUNITIES 多面合作 PUBLIC OUTREACH 公众层面

POLICY OUTREACH 政策层面

Since the Fairbank Center’s founding in 1955, our mission has been to promote scholarship and knowledge about China.

Knowledge of China is becoming increasingly central to U.S. foreign policy. The Fairbank Center is well-positioned to continue our engagement with policy makers through public events with leading experts and delegation visits from government, think tanks, and universities.

Digital communications and social media allow us to advance our outreach far beyond Harvard.

Our nine public-events series, combined with our award-winning blog, podcast, infographics, and social media presence, engage public audiences with our research.

110,000 Blog post readers 博客读者

25,000 Podcast Listeners 播客听众,

18,000

Learn more about our public outreach by subscribing to our “Harvard on China” podcast on iTunes, reading our latest commentary on the Fairbank Center Blog, and joining us for our public events and exhibitions.

KEY LOCALITIES

MILITARY

PARTY AFFAIRS PERSONNEL AND ORGANIZATION

PROPAGANDA AND POLICY RESEARCH

AFTER THE FIRST SESSIONS OF THE 13TH NPC AND CPPCC JULY 2018 Li Xi SX PS Guangdong 61

KEY: “The Core” of the Leadership

Wei Fenghe

Member, CMC; State Councilor, Minister of National Defense 63

Other Leaders of Party and State (non-PB leaders not in retirement with vice-national rank)

Position Age

Name, position, and age of leader in 2017

1

Official order of PSC Members

S

Secretary, CCP-CC Secretariat (vice-national rank)

Name

CCP-CC CMC

New to the Politburo at the 19th Party Congress People’s Republic of China

PS Xinjiang 62

Chen Min’er

Li Hongzhong PS Tianjin 61

Xu Qiliang

Li Qiang

ZJ

Cai Qi

FJ

PS Shanghai 58

Vice Chair, CMC 67

Zhang Youxia

National People’s Congress Standing Committee

CPPCC

Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference

CCDI

CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

PS

CCP Party Secretary

BJ

Ties to Xi Jinping before 2012: BJ: early life/career in Beijing SX: personal/career ties to Shaanxi HB: career overlap in Hebei FJ: career overlap in Fujian ZJ: career overlap in Zhejiang SH: career overlap in Shanghai CS: close work relations at center

Ding Xuexiang

S

Huang Kunming

Director, CCP-CC SH General Office 55

Director, CCP-CC Propaganda Department 61

Not a member of the 19th CCP-CC, PB, or PSC but retained national-rank as 18th PSC member

Wang Dongming

Vice Chair, NPC-SC; Chair, All-China Federation of Trade Unions 61

Heads of Mass Organizations below vice-national rank and non-CCP heads not listed

5 S

Yang Jiechi

Director, Office of the CCPCC Foreign Affairs Work Commission 67

State Councilor, Minister of Public Security; Vice Secretary, CCP-CC Political and Legal Affairs Commission 64

1st Ranked Secretary, CCP-CC Secretariat; Director, CCP-CC Policy Research Office 62

SX

Wang Qishan

Former PSC Member; Vice President, PRC 69

Guo Shengkun

1

S

HB

SX

President, Supreme People’s Court 57

Li Keqiang

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Zhao Leji

Secretary, CCDI 60

Chair, NPC-SC 67

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13 other Vice Chairs of the NPC-SC: 3 semi-retired senior officials, 2 heads of mass organizations, 2 ethnic minority leaders (1 Tibetan, 1 Uyghur), and 6 heads of “democratic parties.”

Wang Chen SX 1st Ranked Vice Chair, NPC-SC 67

Li Zhanshu

Premier, State Council 62 SH

6

Zhou Qiang

Zhang Jun

3

XI JINPING General Secretary, CCP-CC President, PRC, Chairman, CMC 64

Secretary, CCP-CC Political and Legal Affairs Commission 63

Procurator-General, Supreme People’s Procuratorate 61

CS

Wang Huning

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Han Zheng

1st Ranked Vice 1 Premier...

63

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Wang Yang Chair, CPPCC 62

Sun Chunlan

Vice Premier in charge of education, health, sports, and veterans affairs 67

Hu Chunhua

Vice Premier in charge of agriculture and rural work, poverty alleviation, trade, and natural disaster management 54

Yang Xiaodu

S 1st Ranked Vice SH Secretary, CCDI; Chair, National Supervision Commission 64

Liu He BJ Vice Premier; Director, Office of the CCP-CC Finance and Economics Commission... 2 65

Xiao Jie

State Councilor, Secretary General of the State Council 60

*

Wang Yong

You Quan S

Zhang Qingli

1st Ranked Vice Chair, CPPCC 66

23 other Vice Chairs of the CPPCC: 1 Secretary General, 2 State Council ministers, 11 semi-retired senior officials (including 3 from Hong Kong/ Macau), and 9 leaders of “democratic parties/ groups;” some Vice Chairs are ethnic minorities.

SOURCES: NEWS REPORTS, CHENG LI: CHINESE POLITICS IN THE XI JINPING ERA: REASSESSING COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP (2016)

S ZJ

BJ

Director, CCP-CC United Front Work Department 63

INFOGRAPHIC BY YUANZHUO WANG AND JAMES EVANS

Shen Yueyue

Vice Chair, NPC-SC; Chair, All-China Women’s Federation 60

Vice Chair, CMC 67

Wang Yi

State Councilor, Minister of Foreign Affairs 64

Zhao Kezhi

Central Military Commission

S

Director, CCP- BJ CC Organization Department; President, Central Party School 64

PS Beijing 62

Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

NPC-SC

Chen Xi

ZJ

PS Chongqing 57

SUPERVISION AND ANTI-CORRUPTION

UNITED FRONT

State Councilor in charge of nonfinancial business regulations, stateowned enterprises, IP protection, and emergency management 62

He Lifeng FJ Vice Chair, CPPCC; Minister, National Development and Reform Commission 62

*11st Ranked Vice Premier in charge of macroeconomic planning, government budget and restructuring, economic development, social security, energy, natural resources, and the environment.

*2

Vice Premier; Director, Office of the CCP-CC Finance and Economics Commission in charge of finance, science and technology, industry, SMEs, transportation, economic policy coordination and major international economic relations

ECONOMY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

LEGISLATURE

PRC

JUDICIARY AND DOMESTIC SECURITY

Name

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Members of the CCP-CC Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) and other national-rank leaders not in retirement Members of the CCP-CC Politburo (PB) (vice-national rank)

Chen Quanguo

MASS ORGANIZATIONS

Infographic on “How the CCP Rules, developed by Yuan Wang and James Evans of the Fairbank Center, for the 19th Party Congress.

HOW THE CCP RULES: CHINA’S LEADERS OF PARTY AND STATE

Social media followers 名社交媒体追随者

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SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND CONTRIBUTING TO PUBLIC DISCOURSE ON CHINA 为关于中国的公共讨论做出贡献 SPEAKER AND SEMINAR SERIES 讲座与研讨会系列 Our nine speaker and seminar series brought together leading scholars of China to discuss the latest research in their respective fields with academic experts and public audiences. Our lecture series focus on contemporary issues, modern history, the humanities, Taiwan Studies, the Chinese economy, gender studies, religion, the environment, and film.

We also hosted special lectures and discussions that contribute to public discourse on China. The 2017 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture was presented

by James Steinberg, former Deputy Secretary of State and former Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University.

We also hosted a public address by Ambassador Cui Tiankai in addition to panel discussions on the 19th Party Congress, technology in China, and changes in U.S. foreign policy toward Asia under the Trump Administration.

Ambassador to the U.S., Cui Tiankai, discusses U.S.-China relations with Michael Szonyi, Director of the Fairbank Center.

Image: Kris Snibbe

136 Speakers at our public events and conferences 我中心公众活动及学术会议演讲者

71 Public events, plus an additional 109 co-sponsored events with 33 centers across campus 费正清中国研究中心举办的公众活动; 此外中心与全校33个研究中心联合 举办了109次活动

9 Faculty-led seminar series in the humanities and social sciences 由我中心教员主导的人文及社会科学 系列讨论课

8 Delegation visits from leading Chinese universities 中国顶尖大学代表团来访

Event posters from 2017-18 public events series.

Designed by James Evans

PROGRAMS 项目 The Fairbank Center coordinates China Studies scholars from here at Harvard and from across the globe to further their research through residency at the Center. Together, the Center’s Visiting Scholars, Postdoctoral Fellows, Associates in Research, TUSA Scholars, and Graduate Student Associates create a lively community for interdisciplinary exchange. Our 201718 programs included:

2 AN WANG POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS 王安博士后研究员 Our An Wang Postdoctoral Fellows— Dr. Elizabeth Lord and Dr. Amelia Ying Qin—furthered the Center’s research in the environmental humanities and digital methods. For example, Dr. Qin organized a digital methods workshop with Professor Peter Bol to teach new research methodologies.

219 Affiliated Scholars Worldwide 费正清研究中心附属学者 来自全球各地

2 HOU FAMILY FELLOWS 侯氏家族奖学金研究员

The Hou Family Fellowship for Taiwan Studies sponsors one North America-based scholar and one Taiwan-based scholar on Taiwan Studies as visiting fellows at the Fairbank Center.

1 TOP UNIVERSITY STRATEGIC ALLIANCE SCHOLAR (TUSA) TUSA 学者

TUSA is a consortium of universities in Taiwan that sends scholars to Harvard to strengthen their research.

This year, the Fairbank Center supported TUSA Scholar Yen-lin Chung’s research on Peng Zhen and China’s Reform and Opening Up.

11 GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATES 学生研究员

The Fairbank Center welcomed 11 advanced doctoral students from throughout the university for a yearlong residence with the Center.

14 VISITING SCHOLARS 访问学者

Visiting scholars hail from across the globe with a commitment to further research in China Studies.

This year’s scholars included a range of academics—from scholars who have come under significant political pressure to scholars of Marxism.

129 ASSOCIATES IN RESEARCH 合作研究员

Photo: Lisa Abitol

The Center’s Associates in Research are China Studies scholars who use Center resources and participate in Center activities.

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GRANTS AND STUDENT FUNDING 奖学金与研究基金 The Fairbank Center provides financial grants to undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard to further their studies of China and Taiwan. In 2017-18, we granted $400,000 for research, language study, and other activities. We also supported students studying at Harvard from Taiwan, master’s students focusing on Chinese Studies, and others involved in academic engagements with China.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

19 students awarded $35,000 to support research

2 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellows awarded $130,000 in research fellowships

$5,000 awarded to student organizations on campus that are involved with China and Taiwan

$40,000

2 Hou Family Fellows awarded $56,000 in research fellowships

$110,000

$185,000

TUSA SCHOLARS $20,000 awarded to TUSA scholars for research at Harvard

FAIRBANK FACULTY $40,000 awarded to our faculty to conduct workshops and to support their research

$40,000

$20K

GRADUATE STUDENTS 25 students awarded $66,000 to support research 11 Graduate Student Associates awarded $11,000 to support research 1 student awarded $17,000 from the Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship 9 students awarded $4,500 for conference travel $10,000 awarded to support Regional Studies East Asia AM students

70 Student, postdoctoral fellow, and faculty research projects received grants totaling $400,000 用于资助学生、博士后和 教授研究项目的资金共计 $400,000

Photo: Funded by the Fairbank Center and the Harvard China Fund, Alice Donnellan ‘20 visited Taiwan in January 2018 to study Mandarin and art history.

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PUBLICATIONS 出版物

Books published by Harvard University Asia Center Publications Progam, and another nine books published by our faculty.

The Fairbank Center sponsors the publication of monographs through the Harvard Asia Center Publications Program. This year, we sponsored four books by esteemed China Studies scholars:

Reinhardt

哈佛亚洲研究中心出版的书籍

Navigating Semi-Colonialism

Navigating Semi-Colonialism

LegaL Lessons

Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860–1937

Po pu la r i z i n g Laws i n t h e People’s Republic of China 1949-1989

The

Translatability of Revolution Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture

REVOLUTIONARY WAVES

Pu Wang Har vard University Asia Center

The Crowd in Modern China

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Anne Reinhardt

Navigating SemiColonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and NationBuilding in China, 1860– 1937

by Anne Reinhardt

Tie Xiao

J e n n i f e r A lt e h e n g e r

The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture

Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989

Revolutionary Waves: The Crowd in Modern China

by Pu Wang

by Jennifer Altehenger

by Tie Xiao

Our faculty also continue to publish award-winning and fielddefining books across the breadth of China Studies. Singleauthored books published this year include:

The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China

The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China

The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms

The Cold War: A World History

Princeton University Press

by Ya-wen Lei

Princeton University Press

by Michael Szonyi

Harvard University Press

by Xiaofei Tian

Basic Books

by Odd Arne Westad

Calligraphy in the Fairbank Center Collection of the H. C. Fung Library, donated by Li Honglin, “No Forbidden Spaces for Reading Books” (as published in the first issue of Dushu in 1979).

H. C. FUNG LIBRARY FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES COLLECTION 费正清中国研究中心藏书，在美国哈佛大学冯汉柱图书馆 The Fairbank Center Collection in the H. C. Fung Library continues to provide a world-leading collection of resources on contemporary China. Under the stewardship of Librarian Nancy Hearst, the library’s China collection continues to grow. The collection includes a number of unpublished works that are uniquely available in our collection.

Specializing in difficult-to-find Chineselanguage publications, including statistical sources and unpublished documents, these materials complement other collections at Harvard in the field of Chinese Studies. The library currently holds approximately 30,000 volumes, about half of which are in Chinese.

Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, in the Fung Library

727 New books acquired in the Fung Library Fairbank Center Collection 哈佛大学冯汉柱图书馆－ 费正清研究中心新书收藏

SUPPORT THE FAIRBANK CENTER COLLECTION IN THE H.C. FUNG LIBRARY 支持费正清研究中心在哈佛大学冯汉柱 图书馆的藏书 The Fung Library’s Fairbank Collection annually acquires a wide range of publications, documents, and other materials previously unavailable to the West.

Ask us how you can help support the Fairbank Center’s unique library collection: FAIRBANKCENTER@FAS.HARVARD.EDU

WE ASK THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS IN CHINA STUDIES 我们探索中国领域最 重大的问题

Ya-wen Lei, Assistant Professor of Sociology. Photo: Lisa Abitbol

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GET INVOLVED WITH OUR WORK 加入我们 For over 60 years the Fairbank Center has been redefining the boundaries of China Studies.

We continue to achieve this by building a community of world-class China scholars not only at Harvard but also throughout the world.

This community enables the Fairbank Center to address the greatest challenges and most important questions in China Studies today.

By attending one of our many public events, applying to our programs, or donating a financial gift to the Center, you will help to continue the Fairbank Center’s legacy as North America’s leading multidisciplinary China Studies institution.

ASK US HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT THE FAIRBANK CENTER 请向我们咨询如何成为费正清中心 的核心支持者 fairbankdirector@fas.harvard.edu

OUR GLOBAL IMPACT 我们的全球影响 The Fairbank Center’s nearly 1,300 alumni lead China Studies research across the globe.

For our 60th Anniversary, we mapped the worldwide impact of our alumni, including former faculty, students, and affiliates. Check out our interactive GIS map on our website.

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APPENDIX 附录 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND CORE FACULTY 理事会与 核心教职人员 Michael A. Szonyi 宋怡明 * ** Director, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History William Alford 安守廉 * ** Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law Barry Bloom 白瑞·布隆 Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Peter K. Bol 包弼德 * Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations James Cheng 鄭炯文 * Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library Paul A. Cohen 柯文 * Professor of History, Emeritus, Wellesley College, Fairbank Center Associate Richard Cooper 理查德·库珀 Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics Nara Dillon 温奈良 ** Senior Lecturer on Government Mark Elliott 欧立德 * ** Vice Provost for International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History Joseph Fewsmith 傅士卓 * Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University, Fairbank Center Associate Rowan Flad 傅羅文 * ** John E. Hudson Professor of Anthropology Arunabh Ghosh 郭旭光 Assistant Professor of History Merle Goldman 戈德曼 Professor of History, Emerita, Boston University, Fairbank Center Associate Steven Goldstein 戈迪溫 * Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College, Fairbank Center Associate Susan Greenhalgh 葛苏珊 * ** Professor of Anthropology, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Janet Gyatso 珍妮·嘉措 * Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies

William Hsiao 萧庆伦 K. T. Li Professor of Economics C. T. James Huang 黄正德 * Professor of Linguistics Alastair Iain Johnston 江忆恩 * Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs William C. Kirby 柯偉林 * T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Chairman of the Harvard China Fund Arthur Kleinman 凱博文 * Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry Shigehisa Kuriyama 栗山茂久 * Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History Ya-wen Lei 雷雅雯 Assistant Professor of Sociology Jie Li 李潔 ** Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Wai-Yee Li 李惠仪 * Professor of Chinese Literature Jennifer Li-Chia Liu 刘力嘉 * ** Professor of the Practice of Language Pedagogy, Director, Chinese Language Program Felicity Lufkin 盧飛麗 Lecturer on Folklore and Mythology Roderick MacFarquhar 麦克法夸尔 ** Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus Ali Malkawi 马加维 Professor of Architectural Technology, Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Erez Manela 馬內拉 Professor of History Michael McElroy 迈克尔•迈克艾罗伊 Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies Nicole Newendorp 柳云嫦 Lecturer on Social Studies Stephen Owen 宇文所安 * James Bryant Conant University Professor, Professor of Comparative Literature Dwight H. Perkins 德懷特•珀金斯 * Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus Elizabeth J. Perry 裴宜理 * ** Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Director of the HarvardYenching Institute Michael Puett 普鸣 * ** Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History

Meg Rithmire 任美格 ** F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration James Robson 羅柏松 * James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Robert S. Ross 陆伯彬 * Professor of Political Science, Boston College, Fairbank Center Associate Anthony Saich 托尼·赛奇 * Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Victor Seow 萧建业 Assistant Professor of the History of Science Hue-Tam Ho Tai 谭可泰 * Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History, Emerita Karen Thornber 唐丽园 * ** Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Director of Harvard University Asia Center Xiaofei Tian 田晓菲 * Professor of Chinese Literature Leonard van der Kuijp 范德康 * Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Ezra F. Vogel 傅高义 * Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus Rudolf Wagner 瓦格納 * Senior Professor, University of Heidelberg, Fairbank Center Associate David Der-Wei Wang 王德威 * Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature Eugene Yuejin Wang 汪悦进 * Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art Yuhua Wang 王裕华 Assistant Professor of Government Robert Weller 魏乐博 * Professor of Anthropology, Boston University, Fairbank Center Associate Odd Arne Westad 文安立 * ** S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations Martin K. Whyte 怀默霆 * John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Emeritus Ellen Widmer 魏爱莲 * Mayling Song Professor of Chinese Studies, Wellesley College, Fairbank Center Associate Mark Wu 伍人英 * ** Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law Xiang Zhou 周翔 Assistant Professor of Government * = Executive Committee Member ** = Advisory Committee Member

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Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus and Yuhua Wang, Assistant Professor of Government. Photo: Lisa Abitbol

FACTS & FIGURES 相关数据

300+

219

Harvard faculty working on China 位教授从事和中国有关研究

Affiliated scholars worldwide 费正清研究中心附属学者来自 全球各地

65

$400,000

Student research projects funded by the Fairbank Center 名学生受本中心资助

Awarded in grants to students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty 项公众活动

727

13

New books acquired for the Fairbank Center Collection in the Fung Library 哈佛大学冯汉柱图书馆－ 费正清研究中心新书收藏

Books published by our faculty and Harvard University Asia Center Publications Program 哈佛亚洲研究中心出版的书籍

180

18,000

Public events 项公众活动

Social media followers 名社交媒体追随者

FAIRBANK CENTER STAFF 费正清中国研究中心的全体团队 Dan Murphy 慕浩然 * ** Executive Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard China Fund Julia Cai 蔡珏 Assistant Director, Harvard China Fund and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Karen Christopher 卡伦•克里斯 Finance/Administrative Associate Nick Drake 卓鸿涛 Office and Program Coordinator James Evans 詹英俊 Publications Coordinator Sarah Gordon 萨拉•戈登 Director of Finance Mark Grady 马瑞迪 Events Coordinator Nancy Hearst 南希 Librarian, Fairbank Center Collection in the H.C. Fung Library Caitlin Keliher 孔坤婷 Program Coordinator, Harvard China Fund Ying-ming Lee 李(杨)英敏 Library Assistant, Fairbank Center Collection in the H.C. Fung Library Justin Wong 黄学勤 Program Assistant

Annual Report authored and designed by James Evans