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Colonialism, Collaboration, and Criminality: How Europe and East Asia Confront the Memory and Legacy of World War II
Even though the last of the remaining aged survivors of the Second World War who fought and suffered through its horrors are now dying out, interpretations of what happened remain politically and morally contested. It is now an old story that West (but not East) Germany admitted the criminal nature of the Nazi regime, apologized, and incorporated recognition of what occurred into its school curriculum. Officially, Japan never has unambiguously done so and Japanese remain deeply divided over their wartime historical record, including its colonial rule in Asia.
But the story is much more complicated than that because most of the West European countries occupied by Germany during the war only gradually and belatedly admitted that their many collaborators played a crucial role in helping the Germans carry out the Holocaust and fight their war. This was even more the case in East Europe, where many are still evasive about the widespread cooperation with the Nazis that occurred during those years. Poland had to be shocked by Jan Gross’s path-breaking book, Neighbors, before starting to come to grips with the reality of its anti-Semitism, and in many other parts of the region that has not really begun to take place, even now. And in East Asia, the successful channeling of nationalist passions against Japan by the Koreans and Chinese has allowed them to evade the records of their own numerous collaborators.
The importance of World War II memories goes well beyond arguments about guilt or innocence, or concerns about official obscurantism in school textbooks and public avoidance, even denial of the relevance of the topic. The reality is that people have their own version of what happened passed on in family lore, while leaders’ interpretations of their past continue to shape present policy choices.
There has been much valuable scholarship on how both Europe and East Asia have approached issues related to World War II, but relatively little that directly compares the two areas. By bringing together a small group of the best analysts of the contentious twentieth century in both Europe and East Asia, we hope to deepen the comparative scholarship of how they have shaped their historical memory of the wartime past and how that legacy continues to shape current history in both regions. Each panel focuses on a key question and pairs specialists from Asian and European studies to address that same question.
This conference draws upon the three-year Divided Memories and Reconciliation project of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. The papers presented here will be published as an edited volume by a major university press.
Oksenberg Conference Room
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The Chinese Century? Business and Education in the 21st Century
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Europe dominated the 19th century. The 20th century saw the rise of the United States. Will the 21st century be "the Chinese Century"? Using a series of Harvard Business School Cases, this lecture will explore production, consumption, and education for China's new middle class, and think about China's future, in the light of its past.
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund.
A historian of modern China, Professor Kirby's work examines China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He has written on the evolution of modern Chinese business (state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; the history of freedom in China; the international socialist economy of the 1950s; relations across the Taiwan Strait; and China's relations with Europe and America. His current projects include case studies of contemporary Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China, Europe, and the United States.
This talk is co-sponsored with the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS).
Philippines Conference Room
William C. Kirby
T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration
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Harvard Business School
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A Century of Unique Friendship between Republic of China and the United States
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Lyushun Shen earned his doctorate in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He started his career at the School of Law, University of Maryland before deciding to become a professional diplomat. He has enjoyed a distinguished career serving Taiwan in its overseas missions in America and Europe, including in Washington D.C., Kansas City, Geneva and Brussels. Prior to his current appointment he was Taiwan’s representative to the European Union. His publications include: “The Republic of China’s Perspective on the US Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988” (The Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, 1989), The Issue of US Arms Sales and Peking’s Policy toward Taiwan (Taipei, 1986), “Is Peking’s Claim over Taiwan Internationally Recognized?” Monograph Series of the Asia and World Forum (Taipei, 1984), “The Washington-Peking Controversy over US Arms Sales to Taiwan: Diplomacy of Ambiguity and Escalation” (The Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, 1982), and “The Taiwan Issue in Peking’s Foreign Policy during the 1970’s, A Systematic Review” (The Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, 1981).
In this special event, Vice Foreign Minister Shen will reflect on the century-long relationship between the Republic of China and the United States, and address the future prospects and challenges of this relationship.
Bechtel Conference Center
Lyushun Shen
Vice Foreign Minister
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan)
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Innovation Beyond Boundaries: Partnerships for Advancing Smart, Green Living
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FORUM Speakers & DISCUSSANTS (listed in alphabetical order)
- Rohit T. Aggarwala, Special Advisor to the Chair, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
- Alan Beebe, Managing Director, China Greentech Initiative
- Sven Beiker, Executive Director, Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS)
- Ann Bordetsky, North America Market Development, Better Place
- Dennis Bracy, cEO, US-China Clean Energy Forum
- Curtis R. Carlson, President and CEO, SRI International
- Jaching Chou, Senior Transportation Analyst, Institute of Transportation
- Stephen J. Eglash, Executive Director, Energy and Environment Affiliates Program, Stanford University
- Henry Etzkowitz, President of Triple Helix Association; Senior Researcher, Human Sciences and Technology Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR), Stanford University; Visiting Professor at University of Edinburgh Business School
- Gordon Feller, Director of Urban Innovation, Cisco Systems
- TJ Glauthier, President, TJG Energy Associates, LLC
- Russell Hancock, President & Chief Executive Officer, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
- Ted Howes, Business for Social Responsibility
- Asim Hussain, Director of Product Marketing, Bloom Energy
- Paul Chao-Chia Huang, Deputy General Director, Service Systems Technology Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
- Kristina M. Johnson, Former Under Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
- Jeffrey Heller, President, Heller Manus Architects
- Allan King, Senior Manager, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan
- Michael Marlaire, Director, NASA Research Park
- David Nieh, General Manager, Shui On Land Limited
- Jon Sandelin, Senior Associate Emeritus, Office of Technology and Licensing, Stanford University
- Gerald Sanders, CEO & Chairman, SkyTran
- Tim Schweikert, President & CEO, China Region for GE Technology Infrastructure, GE
- Jonathan Thorpe, Senior Vice President, Gale International
- Kung Wang, Professor, China University of Technology
- Sean Wang, President, ITRI International Inc.
- Jonathan Woetzel, Director, McKinsey & Co; Co-Chair, Urban China Initiative
Questions for presentations and discussion included:
- What roles are public-private partnerships and other forms of collaboration playing to advance innovations in smart green industries, such as in the built environment or intelligent transportation?
- What innovations - not only in technologies and products but also in processes, models and platforms - are leading the way?
- What results are emerging from living labs, leading cities, or other outstanding examples of public-private partnerships around the world?
- How do results stack up against economic, energy and social metrics, e.g. economic productivity, quality of life, energy impact, financial payback, user response, etc.?
- What are implications for business strategies?
- What government policies are effectively nurturing advancement in these areas?
Outcomes will include policy recommendations as well as highlights to be included in a book published by SPRIE at Stanford.
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