FYI10 Annual Report - Harvard-Yenching Institute

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4/2-3 Red Legacy in China: An International Conference (Co-sponsored by the CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinology, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies) 4/5 HYI Annual Forum Explaining the Rise of China: A Challenge to Western Social Science Theories? (Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies) 4/10 The Sinic World in Perspective A symposium in honor of Tu Weiming, Harvard Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Organized by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, in cooperation with The Harvard University Asia Center, The John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and The Harvard-Yenching Institute 4/24-25 Inner Asia and China: Cultural and Historical Connections Conference website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~sanskrit/conference2010/conference2010.html 5/1 HYI Literature Symposium: Culture at the Intersection 5/3-4 Early Korea and Japan Interactions: New Perspectives on Old Issues This workshop was planned and hosted by the Early Korea Project (EKP) at Harvard. 5/7-8 Social Suffering, the Culture of Compassion, and the Divided Moral Experience in China (Co-sponsored by the Asia Center) 5/22-24 18th Annual International Association of Chinese Linguistics Conference Hosted under the joint auspices of the Department of Linguistics and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University (Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Insitute, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, and further supported by the Fairbank Center and Asia Center of Harvard University, and the Haide Foundation of Hong Kong 6/4-5 What is Chinese Philosophy? Four Expositions on its Characteristics by Scholars from National Taiwan University Burmese Lives: Ordinary Life Stories under the Burmese Regime Organized by Wen-Chin Chang (Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) and Eric Tagliacozzo (Department of History, Cornell University, USA), and co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica
6/11-13 Cultural Understanding and Cultural Dialogue in the Past 100 Years in China; Fourth in the series of the Nanjing University-Harvard-Yenching Dialogue between Chinese and Islamic Civilizations, held in Nanjing. The previous three meetings were entitled, 2002: “The Dialogue between Chinese and Islamic Civilizations” (Nanjing); 2005: “The Cultural dialogue and the cultural consciousness” (Yinchuan); 2006: “The Global Significance of Local Knowledge” (Kunming). ALUMNI EVENTS 10/31-11/2 Harvard-Yenching Institute Alumni Conference: “Multiple Perspectives on the Meaning of Community and Citizenship”; Sponsored by Peking University and the Harvard-Yenching Institute (held in Beijing) The conference aimed to promote active discussion among scholars from universities and research institutes in East Asia on the topics of citizenship and community. The fast pace of economic and information globalization in the latter half of the 20th century has greatly influenced human development. In China, after 1949, and particularly after the policy of reform and opening was implemented in 1978, the fast pace of modernization led to rapid changes of the social structure. This conference looked at China's social progress and social development from the perspectives of community construction, citizenship, and civil society. At the same time, the conference enhanced understanding of China's situation by offering international comparisons. ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES The Institute continued its collaboration with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in 2009- 2010 to raise the international profiles of leading Asian academics. Towards that end, the Institute offered travel grants to six HYI alumni whose papers were presented on panels at the annual meeting of the AAS. Additionally, the Institute’s 2010 Pusey Fellow, Wang Hui, Professor of Literature and History, Tsinghua University served as a Keynote Speaker at the meeting . HARVARD-YENCHING LIBRARY The Institute continued its support of the Harvard-Yenching Library in the amount of $1,350,000 in academic year 2009-2010. Dr. James Cheng reports the following from the Library’s Annual Report As of June 30, 2010, the Library’s collections included 1, 299,623 volumes, marking an increase of 37,161 volumes in FY10. The library’s collections include the following numbers of volumes: 747,491 Chinese, 322,501 Japanese, 152,592 Korean, 18,778 Vietnamese, 50,547 in various Western languages, and 8,214 Tibetan, Manchu, and Mongolia. The Library subscribes to 8,765
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