Podcast appearances and mentions of roderick macfarquhar

Show Notes: Will Bachman and Ming Chen had a conversation about Ming's journey since graduating from Harvard in 1992. Ming is currently Chief Cultural Officer EF Education First, an education company with 50,000 employees. Will asked Ming to tell him a bit about what she does at EF Education First, and Ming explained that she is the company's Chief Culture Officer. Ming Chen is a long-time employee of EF Education First, a company that provides language programs, educational travel, cultural exchange programs, and academic degree programs.  She joined the company in 1998 after graduating from college with an East Asian Studies degree, and she has since worn many hats. She advises people starting out their career to not be discouraged if their degree does not directly prepare them for a specific job. She found his way in by moving to Hong Kong and joining EF, which is meaningful, global, and fun. She has an MBA, but didn't know what she would do with it when she graduated, so she fell into the job. From Hong Kong to EF Education First Ming Chen, now a Chief Culture Officer, has had a long and varied career path. After graduating college with a degree in a concentration she wasn't quite sure what to do with, she began eliminating possibilities of what he didn't want to do. After spending summers teaching and working at Christie's Auction, she decided to move to Hong Kong due to her family's history there. She describes it as a magical place with access to the beach and the mountains. She compares it to a college campus with pay, and praises the efficient public transportation and the easy tax forms. She also mentions the difficulty of the reintegration to mainland China, but still calls it the mecca of capitalism. EF Education First is  a company that provides educational services, including cultural exchanges. One of their cultural exchange programs is High School Year Abroad, which brings foreign students to public high schools in the U.S. to live with host families for a year. Another program is Cultural Care Au Pair, which helps match American families with au pair students. The programs are quite inspirational and transformative, as they help participants become fluent in English and American culture. The Backstory of EF Education EF Education first was founded in 1965 when its founder, Bertil Hult, who was dyslexic, took a group of Swedish students to Brighton for the summer to help them learn English. He believed that real-life, immersive learning was the best way for students to learn and this became the foundation for the Heritage Program. EF Education first then expanded to include German, Japanese and Mexican students and opened their first school in Hastings, England. Now, they have 600 schools and offices around the world and welcome students from 100 countries to learn English. As well as language schools, they also offer EF English Live, the world's largest online English school, with teachers teaching classes every hour.  On Writing Books and Running Marathons Ming Chen has written with her identical twin sister Wah. Their book titled Escape: One Day We Had to Run was inspired by the story of the nanny who brought up Ming and Wah during their formative years. The nanny had to swim from mainland China to Hong Kong during the 1960s due to the famine. The nanny eventually made it to New York and was like a mother to Ming and Wah, though communication was difficult due to the language barrier. The duo also mention how the book was born out of a longer and more ambitious project. The book was written to help children cope with difficult and traumatic experiences. The book was born out of a larger product project that Ming and her twin sister had been working on for many years, and Carmen Vela, an artist based in Spain, was chosen as the illustrator. The book was published by Lantana Publishing, which was a great success. Ming is also a marathon runner, and she attributes her motivation to running to the friends she made while attending a freshman week party at the University of Pennsylvania. Ming mentions a professor at Harvard who inspired her: Roderick MacFarquhar, a leading scholar on the Cultural Revolution. Timestamps 04:56 From Working in Television to Becoming Chief Culture Officer  08:31 Exploring EF Education First's Cultural Exchange Programs   13:41 Vetting Host Families for High School Exchange Programs 15:29 The Benefits of Educational Travel  16:46 Conversation Summary: EF Education First's Language Training Programs  19:38 On writing books  23:22 Exploring the Inspiration Behind Escape and Other Books  23:37 Writing, Illustrating, and Publishing Escape: One Day We Had to Run  26:59 Reflections on Marathoning and Brand Ambassadorship  31:22 East Asian Studies Major and Hong Kong Expat    Links: Nobel House, James Clavell Indelible City, Louisa Lim Escape: One Day We Had to Run https://demingaling.medium.com/ ef.com/wwen/   CONTACT INFO:  linkedin.com/in/therealmingchen

Keri and Carter take a break from covering depressing and negative news to discuss the importance of gratitude and celebrating holidays like Thanksgiving. Keri talks about her pastor's recent sermon linking a lack of gratitude to resentfulness and envy, and then Carter proposes a model for people's emotional orientations towards humanity (and ultimately themselves): a fundamental approval of human existence on the one hand, and a fundamental rejection of human existence on the other. They then discuss how a "rejection" orientation necessarily requires denunciation of celebrations like Thanksgiving, and how China's Cultural Revolution, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution, and the modern left all fit this model. Next, Keri shares an impassioned list of things for which she is thankful, and Carter follows up with his own list, as well as some habits that can encourage ongoing gratefulness. The rest of the show is dedicated to reading about what the people in Unsafe Space chat are thankful for, and to celebrating gratitude together as a community. Have a happy Thanksgiving! Links Referenced in the Show: Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar: https://amzn.to/3608AZ0 The book on the Chinese Cultural Revolution the Dr. Morson recommended: https://amzn.to/2UR6Drr Thanks for Watching! The best way to follow Unsafe Space, no matter which platforms ban us, is to visit: https://unsafespace.com While we're still allowed on YouTube, please don't forget to verify that you're subscribed, and to like and share this episode. You can find us there at: https://unsafespace.com/channel For episode clips, visit: https://unsafespace.com/clips Also, come join our community of dangerous thinkers at the following social media sites...at least until we get banned: Twitter: @unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Parler: @unsafespace Locals: unsafespace.locals.com MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg To help us continue operating, please visit: https://unsafespace.com/donate Don't forget to pick up some Unsafe Space merch while you're there!

Keri and Carter take a break from covering depressing and negative news to discuss the importance of gratitude and celebrating holidays like Thanksgiving. Keri talks about her pastor's recent sermon linking a lack of gratitude to resentfulness and envy, and then Carter proposes a model for people's emotional orientations towards humanity (and ultimately themselves): a fundamental approval of human existence on the one hand, and a fundamental rejection of human existence on the other. They then discuss how a "rejection" orientation necessarily requires denunciation of celebrations like Thanksgiving, and how China's Cultural Revolution, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution, and the modern left all fit this model. Next, Keri shares an impassioned list of things for which she is thankful, and Carter follows up with his own list, as well as some habits that can encourage ongoing gratefulness. The rest of the show is dedicated to reading about what the people in Unsafe Space chat are thankful for, and to celebrating gratitude together as a community. Have a happy Thanksgiving! Links Referenced in the Show: Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar: https://amzn.to/3608AZ0 The book on the Chinese Cultural Revolution the Dr. Morson recommended: https://amzn.to/2UR6Drr Thanks for Watching! The best way to follow Unsafe Space, no matter which platforms ban us, is to visit: https://unsafespace.com While we're still allowed on YouTube, please don't forget to verify that you're subscribed, and to like and share this episode. You can find us there at: https://unsafespace.com/channel For episode clips, visit: https://unsafespace.com/clips Also, come join our community of dangerous thinkers at the following social media sites...at least until we get banned: Twitter: @unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Parler: @unsafespace Locals: unsafespace.locals.com MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg To help us continue operating, please visit: https://unsafespace.com/donate Don't forget to pick up some Unsafe Space merch while you're there!

This week, due to popular demand, Christopher reads another of his papers from 2017. A paper entitled: Was the Cultural Revolution Mao's personal power struggle? All about Moa's power struggle to retain his reign over the People's Republic of China. Please note that this was written as an academic exercise, and is entirely based on fact, there is no opinion included in this podcast or paper. Bibliography Baum, Richard. Burying Mao: Chinese politics in the age of Deng Xiaoping. Princeton University Press, 1996. Bridgham, Philip. "Mao's Cultural Revolution in 1967: the struggle to seize power." Intelligence Report, CIA, 24 may 1968 Chan, Anita. Children of Mao: Personality development and political activism in the Red Guard generation. Springer, 1985. Chan, Anita, Stanley Rosen, and Jonathan Unger, Students and class warfare: the social roots of the Red Guard conflict in Guangzhou (Canton), China Quarterly (1980): 397-446. Clark, Paul, Youth culture in China: From red guards to netizens, Cambridge University Press, 2012. Cohen, Paul A. "Remembering and forgetting national humiliation in twentieth-century China." Twentieth-Century China 27.2, 2002,1-39. Deng, Zhong, and Donald J. Treiman. "The impact of the cultural revolution on trends in educational attainment in the people's republic of china 1." American journal of sociology 103.2 (1997): 391-428. Domes, Jürgen, and Marie-Luise Näth. China After the Cultural Revolution: Politics Between Two Party Congresses. Univ of California Press, 1977. Gao, Mobo CF. Gao village: a portrait of rural life in modern China. University of Hawaii Press, 1999. Gao, Mobo. The battle for China's past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution. Pluto press, 2008. Jian, Guo, Yongyi Song, and Yuan Zhou. Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Jiang, Ji-li. Red scarf girl. HarperCollins World, 1999. Kleinman, Arthur, and Joan Kleinman. "How bodies remember: Social memory and bodily experience of criticism, resistance, and delegitimation following China's cultural revolution." New Literary History 25.3 (1994): 707-723. Lifton, Robert Jay. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of" brainwashing" in China. UNC Press Books, 1989. Lu, Xing. Rhetoric of the Chinese cultural revolution: The impact on Chinese thought, culture, and communication. Univ of South Carolina Press, 2004. MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals. Mao's last revolution. Harvard University Press, 2009. Mao, Tsetung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1976 Mao, Zedong, Six Essays on Military Affairs, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1972 Ning, Zhang. "The political origins of death penalty exceptionalism Mao Zedong and the practice of capital punishment in contemporary China." Punishment & Society 10.2 (2008): 117-136. Schoenhals, Michael, and Roderick MacFarquhar. "Mao's Last Revolution." (2006). Schram, Stuart Reynolds, Mao Zedong, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1998 Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999. p575 Walder, Andrew G., and Yang Su. "The cultural revolution in the countryside: Scope, timing and human impact." The China Quarterly 173 (2003): 74-99. White III, Lynn T. Policies of chaos: the organizational causes of violence in China's Cultural Revolution. Princeton University Press, 2014. Zhou, Xueguang, and Liren Hou. "Children of the Cultural Revolution: The state and the life course in the People's Republic of China." American Sociological Review (1999): 12-36.

Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School, asks how America and China can escape future conflict. Discussed by Roderick MacFarquhar,  Leroy B. Williams Professor of History at Harvard University, and Oriana Skylar Mastro, Assistant Professor of Security Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Chaired by Michael Szonyi, Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University,

Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, explores the rise of Xi Jinping. Hosted by Ezra F Vogel at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Xi Jinping has centralized power in China to unprecedented levels: he has sidelined both the prime minister and the state council and is trying to control everything himself says distinguished Harvard historian Roderick MacFarquhar. Xi might have – like Mao Zedong long before him - a vision and a sense of direction for China but he lacks the authority and historic legitimacy to implement his ideas. Even worse: his leadership style weakens the entire system. That’s Roderick Macfarquhar in the new Merics Experts podcast.

Xi Jinping has centralized power in China to unprecedented levels: he has sidelined both the prime minister and the state council and is trying to control everything himself says distinguished Harvard historian Roderick MacFarquhar. Xi might have – like Mao Zedong long before him - a vision and a sense of direction for China but he lacks the authority and historic legitimacy to implement his ideas. Even worse: his leadership style weakens the entire system. That’s Roderick Macfarquhar in the new Merics Experts podcast.

28 June 2016 Review of MERICS China Dispute “The Xi Jinping challenge: Will top-down leadership achieve political stability in China?” with Richard McGregor, Roderick MacFarquhar, Sebastian Heilmann and Anthony Saich.

When Xi Jinping became China's top leader in 2012, few had any inkling of the sweeping changes that were to come. Three years later, a clearer picture has emerged, but many questions remain. Is he a reformer bent on curbing corruption at the highest levels of government? Or is he merely concerned with consolidating power within China's opaque political system? In this inaugural episode, scholars, journalists, and political figures weigh in on the man that some have described as China's most powerful leader since Mao.

In the wake of the Bo Xilai scandal, Ian Johnson, Roderick MacFarquhar and Orville Schell assess China's recent political upheavals and its upcoming change of leadership in a program introduced by Hugh Eakin of the New York Review of Books. (1 hr., 21 min.)