Fairbank Center Annual Report 2019-2020

C H I N A S T U D I E S AT H A R VA R D U N I V E R S I T Y 2019 -20 20 哈佛大學中國研究的2019 -20 20 年度 報 告 FA IR BA NK CEN T ER A NNUA L R EP ORT 哈佛大學費正清中國 研究中心 年 報

A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR 主任寄語 Few years in history can be said to be transformational, but 2020 will surely be counted among them.

Usually, my Director’s Word for the Fairbank Center Annual Report is a chance to talk about our successes of the past twelve months, our achievements as a world-class research center, and our plans for the coming academic year. While we have certainly achieved a lot this year, a maelstrom of events has fundamentally altered our activities. Plans for the future remain uncertain and will continue to be shaped by factors beyond our control.

Fairbank Center Director Michael A. Szonyi 費正清中國研究中心主任宋怡明 Photo credit: Lisa Cohen

The tragic spread of COVID-19 across the globe continues to bring unforeseen challenges. The performance of the Fairbank Center team this past semester was remarkable. They creatively reimagined how to operate the Center in a remote environment by rapidly shifting our activities to online platforms, and in the process attracted new and larger audiences than ever before. I am also immensely proud of our efforts to channel resources to those most affected by the pandemic: students whose research and in some cases, whose very lives have been upended. At a time of immense personal and professional hardship for many, we have redoubled efforts to support our community of scholars.

The past months have served as a stark reminder that our work does not take place in a vacuum. Trying to make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic, with its implications spanning health, politics, history, technology, the environment, economics, the arts, and humanities, reminds us of the limitations of traditional disciplinary boundaries. The global scale of the pandemic has revealed how interconnected are our respective areas of study, and how much we are bound up in the contemporary moment.

Founded in 1955, the Fairbank Center’s mission is to advance all fields of China Studies at Harvard University and beyond. 哈佛大學費正清中國研究中心 成立於1955年，致力於在哈佛 大學推進各領域的中國研究

As a U.S.-based center for the study of China, the shifting tides of U.S.-China relations have long influenced both our purpose and our research capabilities. Unfortunately, the state of the bilateral relationship is worsening. But rather than succumb to negativity, perhaps we can take from the current point of crisis a renewed sense of purpose in our work.

At a time when anti-China sentiment is provoked by the most senior leadership in the U.S. government, and Beijing continues to stoke tensions with any whom it deems oppositional, we stand by our mission to pursue teaching and research on Greater China.

What is increasingly clear, moreover, is that our research cannot be separated from our own moral commitments.

Current circumstances are leading us to confront fundamental questions about the future of China Studies in the United States. Even setting aside the limitations imposed by the pandemic, many of us face new restrictions and new concerns about our ability to travel to and conduct research in mainland China, or even in Hong Kong, where academic freedom has not previously been a major concern. Furthermore, the human rights crisis in Xinjiang, where measures such as the euphemistically-named “re-education centers” appear aimed at nothing less than the erasure of Uyghur identity, demand our attention as responsible commentators on China.

Closer to home, the heightened politicization of China Studies in the U.S. (and the West generally), which has led some to question the legitimacy and value of academic engagement with China, poses a fundamental challenge to the Fairbank Center and our peer institutions. U.S. government policies that are inimical to the free movement of students and scholars from China make our work that much harder, and that much more important. In circumstances like these, it is ethically impossible for us to pretend that scholarship on China, in whatever discipline, can be separated from politics.

The present moment, in which all of us are engaged in so much online activity, raises other issues of special but not unique concern to everyone in China Studies. As colleagues such as Prof. Meg Rithmire have thoughtfully commented, online classes bring additional challenges to how we teach and how we approach questions of digital security, especially the security of our students studying online in China.

Although the situations in China and the U.S. are not equivalent, both require our attention. Black Lives Matter protests across the U.S. and around the world necessitate a grappling with questions of how to dismantle systemic racism and inequality, and the need for greater diversity within our own fields of study and more broadly. As Dean Claudine Gay wrote after the death of George Floyd, we still have a long way to go to change ingrained prejudices, but “the fight for change requires our resilience.” We are making efforts to not merely pay lip service to this fight but to think about how we can restructure our activities so that, at the very least, we can play a supportive role in addressing these issues.

Solutions to all these questions must begin locally.

In the case of our engagement with China, relations between those in the White House and those in Zhongnanhai may grow increasingly tense by the day, but I stand by my previous assessment that the U.S.-China relationship cannot be “fixed” by our respective political leaders. Instead, as I said at the Harvard College China Forum last year, we would do well to consider our bilateral relations not as a single, abstract relationship, but as multiple real relationships embodied in personal connections.

As scholars, researchers, teachers, and students, we participate in our own personal version of this relationship every day, as we engage with the complex and rich range of experiences that texture the connections bridging our shared Pacific. It is this model of engagement – an active willingness to better understand – that makes possible our effective analysis, nuanced understanding, and sometimes criticism of China. And it is this understanding that both imbues our work with renewed resolution and assigns a personal responsibility to each one of us in the broad church of China Studies.

This August, normally a period of calm before the semester, the Fairbank Center made international news. Having learned of the firing of Tsinghua University Professor Xu Zhangrun, I decided, in consultation with faculty, to offer him an affiliation as Fairbank Center Associate in Research. Although it was not our intention for this to become a public gesture, Xu’s powerful letter of thanks attracted considerable media attention. Our offer of affiliation was largely symbolic, but symbols matter. Our commitment to intellectual freedom is unwavering, and we will continue – as we have done often before in our more than sixty-year history – to support, as best as we can, colleagues whose work runs afoul of political authority.

I will be taking a long-delayed sabbatical for the 2020-21 academic year, and will therefore be handing over leadership of the Center to Professor Winnie (Chi-Man) Yip. Professor Yip is Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and also Director of the China Health Partnership. As a scholar of health, and as the Center’s first director from Asia, she brings an important perspective to the Center’s leadership. I know the Fairbank Center will be in capable hands during my absence. At a time when global health is on everyone’s mind, I look forward to Professor Yip’s initiatives to bring together scholars from across Harvard, in collaboration with colleagues in China, to contribute to new research that will help address those problems that affect us all.

I offer you my best wishes for good health, and a happy and productive academic year.

MICHAEL SZONYI 宋怡明 Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies 費正清中國研究中心主任 Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University 哈佛大學吳文雄講席教授

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CHINA STUDIES IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 新冠病毒時代的中國研究 The spread of COVID-19 continues to fundamentally change our activities and operations. Despite this, we continue to champion our mission to advance scholarship on China Studies by actively adapting our programming, public outreach, and grants.

Our faculty’s expertise in topics on health, public policy, economics, and politics continues to contribute to public and policy debates about control of the spread of COVID-19, as well as how the virus impacts each of our lives. In early March 2020, the Fairbank Center convened a panel of public health experts from the U.S. and China, moderated by our incoming Acting Faculty Director, Winnie (Chi-Man) Yip, to discuss local and global decision-making on COVID-19.

After the suspension of in-person events, the Fairbank Center team creatively modified our public event series to online webinar platforms. While online events mark a clear difference from our usual in-person event format, they also allow us to conveniently engage speakers and audiences from around the world. A webinar on Taiwan’s response to COVID-19, organized by the Taiwan Studies Workshop, demonstrated the benefit of using online platforms, with panelists Jen-Hsiang Chuang and Steve H.S. Kuo able to speak directly from Taipei.

Programming for our community of scholars similarly shifted to digital platforms. Regular meetings of our faculty, visiting scholars, pre- and postdoctoral fellows, graduate student associates, associates in research, and staff were moved online in March. Our community’s resilience, fortitude, and perseverance in the face of the unique challenges presented by COVID-19 is to be commended. Notably, the Center provided $27,259 in emergency funding to ten graduate students, whose research was critically impacted by the virus. We will continue to offer access to such funds until the pandemic ends.

Despite the changes to our activities, the Fairbank Center is proud to continue the pursuit of scholarship and academic excellence in China Studies.

Images (clockwise from top-left): Winnie (Chi-Man) Yip, Yan Gao, Ling Zhang, and Xiangli Ding present at the Fairbank Center via webinar in April 2020.

Middle: Barry Bloom and Gabriel Leung speak on the outbreak of Covid at our co-sponsored panel in early March 2020. Bottom: Winnie Yip presents on China’s public health system in 2019.

“The Fairbank Center has shaped how Harvard thinks about its engagement with China in every dimension— from teaching and research to exchange and collaboration.” “費正清中國研究中⼼全⾯地影 響著哈佛對中國的思考⽅式， 從教學研究到交流合作。” Lawrence S. Bacow President, Harvard University ⽩樂瑞，哈佛⼤學校長

Images: Left, a stone lion guards the entrance to the Department of East Asian Languages and Cvilizations (Courtsey: James Evans). Above, President Lawrence S. Bacow speaks at Peking University in 2019 (Courtesy: Yi Wang/Harvard Center Shanghai)

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ENGAGING CHINA 走進中國 Harvard University has promoted the study of China since the appointment of our first Chinese-language instructor in 1879. Today, over 300 of our faculty from every school on campus study China. Scholars from around the world are supported by the largest collection of East Asian materials outside of Asia. We are home to over 2,000 students and scholars, and a further 2,500 alumni, from Greater China.

As a leading center for the study of China in North America, the Fairbank Center is ideally positioned to promote the value of scholarly exchange between the U.S. and Greater China. Through our own programs, as well as through collaboration with the Harvard University Asia Center, the Harvard China Fund, and numerous other institutions and programs, we are able to connect and foster our diverse community of scholars.

Professor Yuhua Wang, image credit: Lisa Abitbol

Greater China is a rich and complex area of study, about which we promote multi- and inter-disciplinary research, as well as exchange between experts from around the world. Our scholarship on Chinese culture, history, religion, anthropology, environment, sociology, law, health, government, policy, and business regularly engages academic, public, and policy-making audiences.

In fall 2019, we welcomed Justin Yifu Lin, former Chief Economist of the World Bank and current Dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and honorary dean, National School of Development at Peking University, to give a series of public lectures, workshops with undergraduate concentrators in the Government and Economics Departments, and career conversations with undergraduate student organizations. Professor Lin’s visit was sponsored by the Regan Fund.

In spring 2020, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2013-17) Samantha Power presented our Annual Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture on China and the United Nations.

Ambassador Power established a framework for analyzing China’s infuence in international human rights discourse as an example-setter, enabler, proactive intervener, and norm shaper.

Images: Top left: Director Michael Szonyi speaks at the Harvard Center Shanghai in 2019. Middle right: Dean Justin Yifu Lin. Lower right: Ambassador Samantha Power. Bottom left: Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow meets with General Secretary Xi Jinping in 2019.

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Sara Newland meets with Election night in Taiwan, Janurary 2019.

Photo: Wen-hui Tang

TAIWAN STUDIES AT HARVARD 哈佛大學台灣研究計劃 Sara Newland, Assistant Professor at Smith College and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center, examines the impact of Taiwan’s 2020 general election on the island’s two main political parties: the DPP and the KMT. In many ways, January’s election was a decisive victory for President Tsai Ing-wen and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Tsai was reelected with 57 percent of the vote; the 8.1 million votes she received were the most of any presidential candidate in Taiwan’s democratic history. While the DPP lost seven seats in the Legislative Yuan, it retained its legislative majority and the ability to build on its policy agenda. However, the results suggest that some challenges lie ahead for the DPP.

First, voters were less enthusiastic about the DPP as a party than about Tsai as a candidate. 34 of the 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan are elected via proportional representation and the DPP only slightly outperformed the opposition Nationalist Party (KMT), winning 34 percent of the votes to the KMT’s 33 percent. The small parties that emerged after the 2014 Sunflower Movement also remain popular. In the long term, the DPP will need to convince young voters of its appeal. The challenge is that winning back the loyalty of these voters will require the DPP to adopt more socially progressive positions, which may alienate some more conservative supporters.

Second, the strong performance of one small party in particular — the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), founded in 2019 by the popular independent mayor of Taipei, Ko Wen-je — may complicate the DPP’s efforts to retain the presidency after President Tsai’s term ends in 2024.

Although only a year old, the party captured 11 percent of the party list vote and five seats in the legislature, largely on the strength of Ko’s popularity. While the TPP has few set policy positions — it emphasizes flexibility and pragmatism, and could appeal to both DPP- and KMT-aligned voters across a range of social groups — it disproportionately took votes from Tsai supporters. The TPP’s relatively strong showing lays the foundation for Ko to run for the presidency in 2024, and a three-way race between Ko and a candidate from each of the two major parties seems likely. This scenario would hurt the DPP more than it would hurt the KMT. The election also reveals some major challenges facing the KMT. The first is a challenge of interpretation: Do the election results suggest that Han Kuo-yu — an economic populist who rose from obscurity to be elected mayor

of Kaohsiung only months before running for president — was a poor choice as a presidential candidate? Tsai Ing-wen’s 19-point victory suggests that he was (a point reinforced by his recent recall by voters in Kaohsiung).

However, measured against the KMT’s performance in the 2016 election, the election looked like a win: Han’s 5.5 million votes exceeded the number earned by Eric Chu, the KMT’s presidential candidate in 2016, by nearly two million. Han is a polarizing figure, hated by DPP voters and also by those in his own party who see him as buffoonish and inexperienced. But like so many charismatic populists around the world, Han has inspired fierce loyalty among his supporters. These fans could represent a reliable base of future support for the KMT, which the party needs as it struggles to attract young voters who dislike its relatively pro-China stance.

Above, Steven Goldstein hosts Han Kuo-yu at the Fairbank Center in 2019.

Bottom left, Director Michael Szonyi meets President Tsai Ing-wen in 2018.

A second challenge facing the KMT is thus a coming fight over the future direction of the party. Han and his supporters represent a totally different vision for the KMT than the party has ever embraced before — one rooted in economic populism and making the KMT the party of the “shumin,” the economic underclass that feels that its interests are not represented by either the DPP or the traditionally business-friendly KMT. Embracing economic populism might produce some electoral victories for the KMT. But this vision is completely at odds with the staid traditionalism and the economic policy preferences of the KMT old guard. Whether these two visions can exist side by side — and which one will come to dominate the KMT in the coming years — is an open question.

Below: Sara Newland meets with Vice President Chen Chien-jen in the Presidential Office as part of the Taiwan Studies Workshop’s 2019 visit to Taiwan (photo: Liu Tinming).

The Taiwan Studies Workshop, led by Professor Steven Goldstein, sponsors speakers, conferences, and publications on Taiwan. Members of the Workshop have annually visited Taiwan and mainland China since the administration of Chen Shui-bian (2000–2008), and meet with academics, think-tank scholars, and government officials to discuss cross-strait relations.

由戈迪溫教授領導的哈佛大學台灣研究計劃贊 助相關台灣的發言人、研討會和出版物。該計 劃的成員自陳水扁政府（2000-2008）以來，每 年訪問台灣和大陸，與學界人士、智庫學者、 政府官員會見並探討海峽兩岸關係。

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SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND CONTRIBUTING TO ACADEMIC DISCOURSE ON CHINA 支持並投身於和中國相關的學術討論 SPEAKER AND SEMINAR SERIES 系列講座與研討會 Our nine speaker and seminar series bring 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. In addition, the Center co-sponsors events with other centers and organizations at Harvard and elsewhere.

In March 2020, our events moved online to accommodate social-distancing owing to COVID-19.

Moving to an online format, while a logistical challenge, allowed us to reach a wider audience than ever before.

We are particularly grateful to Lee and Juliet Folger for their gracious and ongoing support of our “Critical Issues Confronting China” lecture series, hosted by Professor Ezra F. Vogel.

Photo: Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor of Sociology

325 Speakers at our public events and conferences 名我中心公眾活動及學術會議演講者

50 Public events, plus an additional 80 co-sponsored events with 40 other centers and organizations 場我中心舉辦的公眾活動； 此外中心與全校40個研究中心 聯合舉辦了80場校內活動

9 Faculty-led seminar series in the humanities and social sciences 堂由我中心教員主導的人文 及社會科學系列討論課

10 Public webinars broadcast after March 2020 due to COVID-19 受新冠病毒影響，自2020年3月 以來，播送了十個公開網絡研討會

Event posters from 2019-2020 public events series. Designed by James Evans

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ENGAGING PUBLIC AUDIENCES 促進來自公眾的關注 Digital communications and social media allow us to advance our outreach far beyond Harvard. Our nine faculty-led public-events series provide a platform for leading scholars of China to converse with academic, policy, and general audiences. Our award-winning blog, podcast, infographics, and social-media presence present our research in a publicly-accessible format.

The Fairbank Center Digital China Project, led by Kwokleong Tang, seeks to broaden accessibility to research materials in China Studies through the use of digital technologies.

Similarly, our collaborative exhibitions display works and objects that provide new angles for research on China.

This year, we hosted two public exhibitions: an exhibition of rare books from the Harvard-Yenching Library and the Za Library 雜書館; and an exhibition of photographs by Lisa Ross of everyday life among China’s Uyghur minority in Xinjiang. Our exhibitions, digital outreach, and public events are an important part of our mission to advance China Studies at Harvard and beyond.

THE CHINA QUESTIONS 中國36問：對一個崛起大國的洞察 Following the success of The China Questions - a book published to mark the 60th anniversary of the Fairbank Center that provides short, accessible answers to key questions in China Studies - the City University of Hong Kong Press published a Chinese-language translation in traditional Chinese characters. A simplified-character version is available to download for free from the Fairbank Center website. A Korean-language translation was also published this year by Miraebook Publishing.

Below, Professor Yuhua Wang’s chapter in The China Questions is featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

300,000 Viewers of our video lectures 觀看視頻講座的觀眾

250,000 Blog post readers 名博客讀者

160,000 Podcast listeners 名播客聽眾

30,000 Social-media followers 名社交媒體追隨者

EXHIBITING THE ECLECTIC FROM CHINESE HISTORY 哈佛大學·雜書館特藏展 In fall 2019, the Fairbank Center hosted an exhibition of rare books from the Harvard-Yenching Library and the Za Library 雜書館, the largest privately-owned library in mainland China that is open to the public. Works on display included rare Tang manuscript copies, Song printed editions, Liao and Xixia printed sutras, Ming and Qing clan lineages and local gazetteers, as well as materials from the late Qing and Republican eras. We were fortunate to display popular materials from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that traditionally have not been widely sought by private collectors or public libraries.

The exhibition was curated by Professors Wilt Idema and Xiaofei Tian, with thanks to Gao Xiaosong, Xiaohe Ma, Sharon Yang, Xiao Ge, James Evans, and Annie Wang.

Images courtesy of Xiao Ge.

“This exhibition gives a taste of these two excellent library collections, to offer a glimpse into the diverse social reality in Chinese history, and to prompt us to reflect on the nature and significance of archival and private collecting in modern China.” “這次聯合展覽，旨在讓觀 眾領略兩家優秀圖書館的館 藏，一窺中國歷史上的社會 百態，並促使我們對現當代 中國檔案整理及私人收藏的 性質和重要性作出反思。” - Professor Xiaofei Tian

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Photo Credit: Lisa Ross

ELEGY TO A UYGHUR DREAMSCAPE This spring, the Fairbank Center exhibited photographs by Lisa Ross of everyday life in Xinjiang, China’s westernmost region. The photographs depict beds and their occupants outside in the open air. Sleeping outdoors is a traditional means to keep cool in the hot desert climate for many Uyghurs, Xinjiang’s Muslim-majority ethnic group. Traditional ways of life for the region’s ethnic Uyghur population are rapidly disappearing due to the Chinese government’s mass detentions of many of the region’s residents.

維吾爾夢境的輓歌 Numbering around ten million, Uyghurs are the majority ethnic group in Xinjiang in western China, and they make up approximately 43% of the population. These photographs by Lisa Ross provide a moving, if disturbing, view of life for Uyghurs today. The photos were taken just before the new so-called anti-terrorist policies in Xinjiang were first implemented.

Government policies of the last two years have restricted the religious and personal freedoms of Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang to an unprecedented degree. In addition to shuttering mosques, closing schools, and bulldozing cemeteries, authorities have used extralegal means to detain an unknown number of people and to hold them for indefinite stretches of time in one of dozens of newly-built concentration camps, officially known as “re-education centers.”

Though they do not stand accused of any crimes, inmates at these facilities are unable to leave or to communicate with family and are subject to extensive questioning and political indoctrination.

This exhibition offers the viewer a chance to reflect on the “new normal” in Xinjiang and to think about the meanings of “home.” Taken over many years, these portraits — mainly of women and children — dramatize the impact of detentions in thousands of households where loved ones have been taken away for no one knows how long. They stand by, or sit on, beds, but beds that have been removed from normal interiors and placed instead outdoors: on a road, in a field, next to a pile of bricks.

Torn out of context, these beds offer little promise of rest. Surrounded by colorful sheets and blankets, many of them of native design, the figures in these photographs inhabit a dystopian dreamscape, the scenes symbolic of the uprooting of a people and a culture that is happening in real time, right before our eyes.

This exhibition is an important addition to our classes, lectures, and outreach about the current situation in Xinjiang, which poses dramatic challenges not only to Uyghurs, but to people everywhere in China and around the world. In times of crisis, when words are often inadequate, art and photography can best respond to the human need for expression and catharsis.

Photo Credit: Lisa Ross

This exhibition featured photographs by Lisa Ross, and was curated by Holly Angell and James Evans. It was sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Harvard Asia Center Arts Initiative; with support from the Provostial Fund Committee, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities.

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PROGRAMS 項目 The Fairbank Center coordinates China Studies scholars from Harvard and across the globe to further their research through residency at the Center. Together, our Visiting Scholars, Postdoctoral Fellows, Associates in Research, and Graduate Student Associates create a lively community for interdisciplinary exchanges. Our 2019-2020 programs included:

3 AN WANG POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS 王安博士後研究員

The Fairbank Center supports junior scholars from the humanities and social sciences as An Wang Postdoctoral Fellows. Our Fellows spend one year at the Fairbank Center conducting research, developing book manuscripts or articles, and presenting research.

2 HOU FAMILY FELLOWS 侯氏家族獎學金研究員

The Hou Family Fellowship for Taiwan Studies sponsors pre- and postdoctoral scholars who conduct research on Taiwan as visiting fellows.

9 GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATES 學生研究員

We welcomed 9 advanced doctoral students from throughout the university for a year-long residence at the Center.

15 VISITING SCHOLARS 訪問學者

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 with varying topics of research.

113 ASSOCIATES IN RESEARCH 合作研究員

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

Image: The Harvard Tercentenary Stele, credit: James Evans

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GRANTS AND STUDENT FUNDING 獎學金與研究基金 The Fairbank Center provides financial grants to undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard, to pre- and postdoctoral fellows, and to faculty to further their studies of China and Taiwan. In 2019-2020, we granted $370,600 for research, language study, and other activities.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS 2 students awarded $6,500 to support research and language study in China.

PRE- AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

4 students awarded $10,300 for research and language study in Taiwan.

3 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellows awarded $135,000 in research fellowships

$2,800 awarded to student organizations on campus

2 Hou Family Fellows awarded $73,000 for fellowship support

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55 Student, postdoctoral fellow, and faculty research projects received grants totaling $370,600 個學生、博士後和教授研究 項目獲得資金支持共計$360,600

FACULTY $31,500 awarded to our faculty to conduct workshops and to support research

$208,000 for research fellowships to junior scholars

$31,500 for faculty research

GRADUATE STUDENTS 10 students awarded $33,000 for research and language study.

9 Graduate Student Associates awarded $9,000 to support their research.

1 student awarded $20,000 from the Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship.

9 students awarded $4,200 for conference travel.

Image: Anna Wang

4 students awarded $8,000 for research on Taiwan.

2 Regional Studies East Asia A.M. candidates awarded $10,000 to support their time at Harvard.

10 students awarded $27,259 to alleviate financial stress due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I had the opportunity to meet many Taiwanese opera artists and to get to know the things that they hold dear. I was struck by the ardent conviction that emanated from many of the musicians I met regarding the importance of preserving Taiwanese culture through their art.”

- Anna Wang, 2020 Taiwan Studies Grant recipient

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PUBLICATIONS 出版物

Books published by Harvard University Asia Center Publications Progam and by our faculty.

The Fairbank Center contributes to the publication of monographs.

This year, we sponsored the publication of four books through the Harvard Asia Center Publications Program.

部哈佛亞洲研究中心出版的書籍

O R T H O D O X PA S S I O N S Narrating Filial Love During the High Qing

FAMINE RELIEF IN WARLORD CHINA

Regional Literature and the

Transmission of Culture Chinese Drum Ballads 1800-1937

Class, Gender, and Revolution in China’s Yangzi Delta Silk Industry

Margaret B.Wan

Robert Cliver PIERRE FULLER

Maram Epstein

Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China’s Yangzi Silk Industry

Orthodox Passions: Narrating Filial Love During the High Qing

Famine Relief in Warlord China

Regional Literature and the Transmission of Culture: Chinese Drum Ballads, 1800-1937

by Robert Cliver

by Maram Epstein

by Pierre Fuller

by Margaret Wan

Our faculty also continue to publish award-winning and fielddefining books across the breadth of China Studies, including:

Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China

Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care

影子与水文：秋水堂自选集

Arunabh Ghosh Princeton University Press

Karen L. Thornber Brill Press

Xiaofei Tian Nanjing University Press

Congratulations to Stephen Owen, whose monograph Just a Song: Chinese Lyrics from the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries (Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2019) was awarded the 2020 Stanislas Julien Prize

H. C. FUNG LIBRARY

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).

FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES COLLECTION 費正清中國研究中心藏書，在美國哈佛大學馮漢柱圖書館 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 Chinese-language publications, including statistical sources and unpublished documents, these materials complement other collections at Harvard in the field of Chinese Studies. The library currently holds over 30,000 volumes, about half of which are in Chinese.

Below: Professor Meg Rithmire makes use of the Fung Library’s collection.

1,000 New books acquired in the Fung Library Fairbank Center Collection 部費正清研究中心的新書收藏於 哈佛大學馮漢柱圖書館

SUPPORT THE FAIRBANK CENTER COLLECTION IN THE H.C. FUNG LIBRARY 支持費正清研究中心在哈佛大學馮漢柱 圖書館的藏書 The Fung Library’s Fairbank Collection annually acquires a wide range of publications, documents, and other materials previously unavailable in the West.

The Fung Library was pleased to receive several generous financial donations this year: an endowed contribution from an anonymous library user; financial support to cover the librarian’s annual trip to Beijing; and a generous contribution from former Fairbank Center library assistant, Ying-Ming Lee, which will enable us to expand our holdings of Chinese-language social science materials on Taiwan.

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

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OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES 首要戰略目標 In the 64 years since the Fairbank Center’s establishment, the landscape of China Studies has shifted dramatically.

As China Studies expands into new fields, 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 Chinarelated research at Harvard and beyond.

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:

TRANSFORMING DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP ON CHINA 更新技術 向數字化的中國研究轉型 Our Digital China program introduces cuttingedge digital techniques for the study of China.

Founded this year by our Digital China Fellow, Kwok-leong Tang, the program aims to connect our existing digital databases - including the China Biographical Database Project led by Professor Peter Bol, and the China Historical Geographic Information System - with initiatives that educate researchers in digital methods.

INSPIRING RESEARCH ON CHINA AND THE WORLD 鼓勵創新 促進世界範圍內的中國研究 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, we support research that examines China’s new global leadership. In addition, we are continuing our research partnership on western China with Sichuan University.

ENGAGING PUBLIC AND POLICY-MAKING COMMUNITIES 多面合作 促進來自公眾和決策層受眾的關注 The Fairbank Center serves as a platform for academic and policy-making communities to engage in public debates on China. Our public event series, publications, blog posts, podcast, infographics, and exhibitions connect global audiences with our research.

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GET INVOLVED WITH OUR WORK 加入我們

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 institution for China Studies.

Images: Right: Professors Nara Dillon and Susan Greenhalgh (top right and center, images courtesy of the Harvard Gazette), and Professor Mark Wu (lower right, image courtesy of the Harvard Center Shanghai).

Left: Professor William C. Kirby (image courtesy of the Harvard Center Shanghai).

ASK US HOW YOU CAN FURTHER SUPPORT THE FAIRBANK CENTER 歡迎垂詢進一步支持費正清中心的相關事宜 fairbankdirector@fas.harvard.edu

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APPENDIX 附錄 FACULTY 理事會與 核心教職人員 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 * 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 Associate 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 Thomas Kelly 陶明 Assistant Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese Literature 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 Daniel Koss 古大牛 Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Civilizations Leonard van der Kuijp 范德康 * Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies 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 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, Emeritus 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, Director of Harvard Ash Center 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 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 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 Winnie (Chi-Man) Yip 葉志敏 * Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics Xiang Zhou 周翔 Assistant Professor of Sociology * = Executive Committee Member ** = Advisory Committee Member

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RUDOLF WAGNER 瓦格納 1941-2019 IN MEMORIAM

Photo: Lisa Abitbol

FACTS & FIGURES 相關數據

300+

197

Harvard faculty working on China 位教授從事和中國有關的研究

Affiliated scholars worldwide 名來自世界各地的附屬學者

55

$370,000

Students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty funded by the Center 名學生受本中心資助

Awarded in grants to students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty 授予學生、博士後和教員的獎學金

1,000

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New books acquired in the Fairbank Center Collection of the Fung Library 部費正清研究中心的新書收藏於 哈佛大學馮漢柱圖書館

Books published by our faculty and Harvard University Asia Center Publications Program 部哈佛亞洲研究中心出版的書籍

130

21,000

Public events 項公眾活動

Social-media followers 名社交媒體追隨者

Annual Report authored and designed by James Evans

FAIRBANK CENTER STAFF 費正清中國研究中心行政團隊 Daniel 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 卡倫•克里斯 Finance/Administrative Associate Charlotte Cotter 嚴江雯 Library Assistant Nick Drake 卓鴻濤 Office and Program Coordinator James Evans 詹艾文 Communications Officer Sarah Gordon 薩拉•戈登 Director of Finance Mark Grady 馬瑞迪 Events Coordinator Nancy Hearst 南希 Librarian, Fairbank Center Collection in the H.C. Fung Library Marian Lee 李博雅 Program Assistant Emmeline Liu 劉夢雪 Program Coordinator, Harvard China Fund Kwok-Leong Tang 鄧國亮 Digital China Fellow