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This talk is based on Professor Zhang's new 2026 book with the same title from the University of Michigan Press. She proposes an interdisciplinary, multicultural new paradigm for Chinese Studies through examining the formation and evolution of the "Qiang" as a people, a concept, and a cultural history spanning two millennia in China.

Yanshuo Zhang is Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures at Pomona College. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan for the 2020-2022 cohort. She is the Principal Investigator of the national winner of the Luce/ACLS Inaugural Collaborative Grant in China Studies, titled "Resituating Humanistic Pedagogy in China Studies: Incorporating Ethnic Minority Literary and Cultural Productions into North American College Classrooms." She is leading a transnational team of scholars, translators and artists across the Pacific and Chinese ethnic minority and indigenous scholars on developing teaching resources and primary sources for engaging with China's ethnic minority cultural heritage for the global audience.