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LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Mobilization in China
Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Comparing the political activism of feminists and lawyers in China and drawing on theories of performance and dramaturgy, this project...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Spatializing Infant Burial in Qing China
Jeff Snyder-Reinke, Professor of Chinese History, The College of Idaho
In the nineteenth century, foreigners in China wrote prolifically about so-called "baby towers"—structures that were erected outside...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Plato, Through Confucian Eyes
Eric Hutton, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah
While many published studies compare ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy, such studies usually start by identifying some set of ideas in...
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...
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Indigenous Languages: From Endangerment to Revitalization and Resilience
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages, and the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues...
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...
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 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...
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,...
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,...
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”)...
