LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Why Bother? The Place of Socialist Propaganda Theater in China
Xiaomei Chen, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature, Film and Theater; University of California at Davis
This presentation argues against the conventional wisdom which views the performance culture of the People’s Republic of China as a...
International Institute Conference.
Indigenous Languages: From Endangerment to Revitalization and Resilience
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages, and the area studies centers at the...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Resource Diversification and Resilience: The Bioarchaeology of Bronze Age Northwest China
Elizabeth Berger, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Northwest China experienced several marked transitions during the Bronze Age (~2000-1000 BCE), including climate change, the spread of...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | From Cook to Counterrevolutionary: A Window into Christianity in China through the Saga of a Single Family
Jennifer Lin, Former Beijing Correspondent, "The Philadelphia Inquirer"
A former Beijing correspondent for "The Philadelphia Inquirer," Jennifer Lin chronicles 150 years of family history in "Shanghai Faithful:...
LRCCS Conference | Art, History, and Sinology: An International Conference in Honor of Martin J. Powers
Conference organizer: J. P. Park, University of California, Riverside
Complete conference details, including daily schedule and speaker bios, are available on the conference website:...
LRCCS Conference | Art, History, and Sinology: An International Conference in Honor of Martin J. Powers
Conference organizer: J. P. Park, University of California, Riverside
Complete conference details, including daily schedule and speaker bios, are available on the conference website:...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Futures in the Past of Africa-China Engagement
Jamie Monson, Professor of History, Director of the African Studies Center, Michigan State University
This talk will challenge the presentist time frame of much current scholarship on China and Africa. Popular discourse as well as scholarly...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China
Ling Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Although China is a global manufacturing titan, the "made in China" model has begun to wane. Starting in the 2000s, China shifted from...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Was the Opium War Really Destined to Happen?
Stephen R. Platt, Professor of Chinese History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
This talk will explore some of the countercurrents to our dominant understanding of the era leading up to the Opium War of 1839-1842,...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
Now We See It, Now We Don't: How to Theorize Traditional Chinese Song-Drama
Patricia Sieber, Associate Professor of Chinese, Ohio State University
This talk will attempt to bring premodern Chinese song-drama out of the straightjacket of Western terminology, that is, comedy vs. tragedy,...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Chairman Mao’s Children and China’s Difficult Past: Generation, Class, and Memory
Bin Xu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emory University
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Chinese government sent about 17 million secondary school graduates (the “educated youth” or “zhiqing”)...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
LRCCS Conference | Understanding Media: New Perspectives on Ming–Qing Literature
This exploratory conference aims to bring new work on Ming and Qing literature into dialogue with approaches to the history and theory of...
LRCCS Conference | Understanding Media: New Perspectives on Ming–Qing Literature
This exploratory conference aims to bring new work on Ming and Qing literature into dialogue with approaches to the history and theory of...
