LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Propaganda as Viral Stunts: How Party Press in China Navigates Between Tradition and Innovation
Sheng Zou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
This talk presents findings from Dr. Zou’s recent work that investigates the production of soft propaganda campaigns on China’s social...
International Institute Conference on Arts of Devotion
Various speakers
Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/wleGk...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Cultural Mediations in the Great Wall Frontier: The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China
Bryan K. Miller, Lecturer in the U-M History of Art Department
The Great Wall regions of northern China have long been characterized as frontiers of political and cultural expansion in which steppe...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Global Medicine in Chinese East Asia, 1937-1970
Wayne Soon, Assistant Professor of History, Vassar
This presentation makes the case for a new concept of “global medicine" to highlight the multivalent and multidirectional flows of...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Dancing Productive Missteps: the American Dance Festival at China’s Reform Era
Fangfei Miao, Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Michigan
This talk explores the paradoxical role that the US played in China’s dance modernization during the Reform Era through a paradigmatic...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Role of More than Humans in Making Chinese Society and History: Thinking With Elephants and Mushrooms
Michael Hathaway, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Over the last few decades, scholars from several disciplines have shown increasing interest in moving beyond anthropocentric studies to...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Making of a Medium: Borrowing Views from Painting and Fiction in Early Modern Chinese Garden Design
SE Kile, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
The notion that gardens might offer a private space, apart from the larger public world and even family responsibilities, dates to the...
