LRCCS Special Event | A Recital of Qin Music (Chinese Seven-Stringed Zither) Water and Mist over Rivers Xiao and Xiang
Dr. Shuishan Yu, Northeastern University
On October 6, 2022, the LRCCS will present a recital by Professor Shuishan Yu of Northeastern University in Boston, a leading scholar of...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | On The Wuhan Lockdown, or How to Reassemble a Global Pandemic
Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
In this talk, Dr. Yang will discuss why he focuses on characters and scenes in his new book "The Wuhan Lockdown" and what this...
WCED Roundtable. Flashpoint: 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Mary Gallagher, Jundai Liu, Joseph Torigian, Dan Slater (moderator)
The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scheduled to open on October 16, 2022. 2,300 national delegates,...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Moral Theory and Early Confucianism: Toward a Unified Account
Aaron Stalnaker, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, Indiana University
Early Confucian ethical and political thought has provoked a remarkable range of readings over the last two decades, especially regarding...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China’s Local Government Debt: A Ticking Time Bomb?
Jean Oi, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Will local government debt derail decades of China’s economic growth? Much of China’s remarkable growth has been fueled by local...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Anatomy of a Regional Civil War: Guangxi, 1967-1968
Andrew G. Walder, Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
During the violent early years of China’s Cultural Revolution, the province of Guangxi experienced by far the largest death toll of any...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Chinese Lives of “Internet Finance”: From Technological Innovations to Ponzi Schemes
Yichen Rao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
In this talk, Dr. Rao will trace how China’s “internet finance” industry, represented by thousands of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Gender of the Operatic Voice: From Li Yu 李漁 (1611-1680) to Xu Dachun 徐大椿 (1693-1771)
Judith Zeitlin, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago
This talk focuses on two important prescriptive manuals for training household singer-actors, one by Li Yu (1671) and one by Xu Dachun...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Redemption, Raids, and Restitution: The “Tail” of Private Ownership in the Early People’s Republic of China
Puck Engman, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
What Karl Marx termed the “expropriation of the expropriators” and PLA Marshal Lin Biao referred to as “getting property” was key...
