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...film “A Chronicle of My Cultural Revolution,” which details personal childhood horrors he and his generation experienced during Mao Tse-Tung’s Cultural Revolution during the 1960s and 1970s. In an event jointly sponsored by Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the New England China Seminar, Xing juxtaposed the brutality he witnessed with the history perpetuated by the Chinese government, which Xing said has been sanitized. Xing said that the Chinese government has intentionally tried to distort information about the Cultural Revolution and that through his film...
...When I first went to China in 1985 they were celebrating this holiday,” said Anne L. Fessenden, an affiliate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Fessenden taught English in China for four years in the 1980s...
...human rights in China, the current conflict in Tibet, and the perception of a Western bias against China. The discussion reflected the diverse opinions about China’s human rights record that have surfaced in light of this summer’s Olympics in Beijing. The panel featured Fairbank Center for East Asian Research associate Merle Goldman, Harvard Law School research associate Lobsang Sangay, Harvard economics graduate student Yue Tan “David” Tang, and Amnesty International advocacy director T. Kumar. Tang was the lone supporter of China, citing China’s progress in human...
...last night, but as the deadline passed, police officers continued to patrol Lhasa, according to the Associated Press. “The basic cause of the conflict is the difference between the promise of autonomy and the reality,” said William C. Kirby, director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Kirby, who traveled to Tibet last October, said that the presence of Chinese military forces is extremely visible—even in time of peace. Kirby said that the outcome is contingent on the will of the factions’ leaders. “The long term...
...proprietor Joe Bartley, “We have a friendly landlord: Harvard.”In place of the locally owned restaurants came several chains and a growing array of fine dining options. “It’s becoming a lot less interesting,” says Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson, who teaches a course on “Food and Culture” and has lived near the Square since 1988. Watson believes that diners’ escalating expectations have driven up prices, shutting out many students and local residents...