Stanford University

International Diplomacy Lecture Series: US-China Relations and the "Re-Balance" to Asia

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THOMAS FINGAR, Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

The Obama Administration’s “Re-Balance” to Asia has been poorly explained, widely misunderstood, and deliberately misconstrued by officials and commentators on both sides of the Pacific. Stanford Professor and former Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Fingar will analyze the origins and objectives of the Re-Balance and attempt to explain and address questions and concerns raised by the Chinese and others in the region.

From May 2005 through December 2008, Fingar served as the first Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis and, concurrently, as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council. He served previously as Assistant Secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (2004-2005), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (2001-2003), Deputy Assistant Secretary for Analysis (1994-2000), Director of the Office of Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific (1989-1994), and Chief of the China Division (1986-1989). 

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Thomas Fingar Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Stanford University
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Medieval Text Technologies in China and Europe (September 11-13, 2014)

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Featuring:  Ronald Egan (moderator) - Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at Stanford University

An international conference on manuscripts, reading, writing, book history, and the classification of knowledge in medieval China and Europe. Special attention to common problems and divergent paths taken with regard to manuscript production, copying and transcription, orality vs. the written circulation of texts, writing systems, and the social space of manuscripts. The conference brings together international specialists on the medieval manuscript tradition in Europe with those working on parallel topics in medieval Chinese history.

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September 11, 2014 • 1:30pm–5pm

September 12, 2014 • 9am–5pm

September 13, 2014 • 9am–12pm

 

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Ronald Egan (moderator) - Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at Stanford University
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Medieval Text Technologies in China and Europe (September 11-13, 2014)

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Featuring:  Ronald Egan (moderator) - Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at Stanford University

An international conference on manuscripts, reading, writing, book history, and the classification of knowledge in medieval China and Europe. Special attention to common problems and divergent paths taken with regard to manuscript production, copying and transcription, orality vs. the written circulation of texts, writing systems, and the social space of manuscripts. The conference brings together international specialists on the medieval manuscript tradition in Europe with those working on parallel topics in medieval Chinese history.

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September 11, 2014 • 1:30pm–5pm

September 12, 2014 • 9am–5pm

September 13, 2014 • 9am–12pm

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Ronald Egan (moderator) - Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at Stanford University
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Towards a More Universal Universalism: Western and Chinese Perspectives

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Speakers:

Timothy Garton Ash - Professor of European Studies at University of Oxford

Li Qiang (commentator) - Professor, School of Government at Peking University

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of In Europe’s Name, History of the Present, Facts are Subversive, and other books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last thirty years. He is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in the Guardian.

Li Qiang is Professor of Political Science at the School of Government at Peking University, Director for Development Planning Department, and Director of Center for European Studies at Peking University. 

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Medieval Text Technologies in China and Europe (September 11-13, 2014)

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Featuring:  Ronald Egan (moderator) - Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at Stanford University

An international conference on manuscripts, reading, writing, book history, and the classification of knowledge in medieval China and Europe. Special attention to common problems and divergent paths taken with regard to manuscript production, copying and transcription, orality vs. the written circulation of texts, writing systems, and the social space of manuscripts. The conference brings together international specialists on the medieval manuscript tradition in Europe with those working on parallel topics in medieval Chinese history.

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September 11, 2014 • 1:30pm–5pm
September 12, 2014 • 9am–5pm
September 13, 2014 • 9am–12pm
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Ronald Egan (moderator) - Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at Stanford University
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Abortion in Late Imperial China

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Speaker:  Matthew H. Sommer - Associate Professor in History, Stanford University

In late imperial China, a number of purported methods of abortion were known; but who actually attempted abortion and under what circumstances? Some historians have suggested that abortion was used for routine birth control, which presupposes that known methods were safe, reliable, and readily available. This paper challenges the qualitative evidence on which those historians have relied, and presents new evidence from Qing legal sources and modern medical reports to argue that traditional methods of abortion (the most common being abortifacient drugs) were dangerous, unreliable, and often cost a great deal of money. Therefore, abortion in practice was an emergency intervention in a crisis: either a medical crisis, in which pregnancy threatened a woman's health, or a social crisis, in which pregnancy threatened to expose a woman's extramarital sexual relations. Moreover, abortion was not necessarily available even to women who wanted one.

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Matthew Sommer

 

 

 

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Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center at Peking University, August 2014
Lectures

Tackling China's Non-Communicable Diseases

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Speaker: Randall S. Stafford (moderator), Professor at Stanford Prevention Research Center

This symposium will highlight the public health threat posed by China’s non-­‐ communicable disease (NCD) epidemic, and focus on the role of research in developing an effective response. Prevalent NCDs (stroke, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer) share common origins linked to lifestyle changes and increasing disease risk factors spurred in part by successful economic development. These conditions and their complications, however, place a high burden on health care resources and reduce social capital growth. An effective response is possible, but will require a novel approach focusing on maintaining human function and wellness, strategies that impact multiple NCDs, new models of health care delivery, and greater integration of public health and clinical care.

Featured speakers include Prof. Linhong WANG (China Center for Disease Control), Prof. Lixin JIANG (National Centre for Cardiovascular Diseases), Prof. Yangfeng WU (Peking University Clinical Research Institute) Prof. Randall S. STAFFORD (Stanford Prevention Research Center), Prof. Sanjay BASU (Stanford Prevention Research Center).

 

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