Happening @ Michigan

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State

Philip Thai, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University

Coastal smuggling has been a thorny problem for successive governments in modern China. But, while smuggling might have operated on the...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | From Grindr to Cybersovereignty: The Loaded Interplay between Community, National, and Global Standards of Data Governance in China

Aynne Kokas, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia

The Chinese government has become increasingly involved in global standards-making events such as the annual Internet Governance Forum and...

LRCCS Public Lecture Series | The Chinese World Order in Historical Perspective: Soft Power or the Imperialism of Nation-States?

Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies, Duke University

Dr. Duara seeks to grasp the genealogy of China’s Belt and Road (BRI) in relation both to the imperial Chinese world order and the...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Estimating the Unofficial Income of Officials from Large Asset Purchases

Yongheng Deng, Professor and John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business, Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

From a paper co-authored by Yongheng Deng (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University, FISF, and NBER) and Jing Wu...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Liu Liangmo (刘良模1909-1988) —Transpacific Mass Singing, Journalism, and Christian Activism

Yunxiang Gao, Associate Professor of History, Ryerson University

Professor Gao’s talk lifts out of the dustbin of history the life and career of Liu Liangmo, a talented musician, prolific journalist, and...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Emperor Has No Voice: Imperial Utterance in Excavated Han Documents

Charles Sanft, Associate Professor and Associate Head, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The emperor was at the center of Chinese political theory throughout the imperial period. Sometimes this theoretical position found...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Periphery, Locality, and Status in Writings from Sixteenth-Century Dali, Yunnan

Eloise Wright, LRCCS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan

From 1253, when Mongol armies invaded the independent Dali Kingdom in the southeastern foothills of the Himalayas, its capital, Dali, was...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Overreach and Overreaction: The Crisis in U.S.-China Relations

Susan Shirk, Chair, 21st Century China Center, University of California, San Diego

Relations between the United States and China today have become more competitive and tense than they have been during the past forty years...

Arthur Sze Poetry Reading and Book Signing

Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He has published ten books of poetry, including Sight Lines, Compass Rose, The Ginkgo Light,...

Arthur Sze Roundtable Q&A

Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He has published ten books of poetry, including Sight Lines, Compass Rose, The Ginkgo Light,...

Arthur Sze: In Conversation

Poet Arthur Sze, Interviewed by Prof. Khaled Mattawa

Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He has published ten books of poetry, including Sight Lines, Compass Rose, The Ginkgo Light,...