Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CJS Lecture Series | Differences between Japan and China: Perspectives from Japanese Journalism, 1980 - Present (September 30, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84335 84335-21623366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Note that this event begins at 7pm, Ann Arbor time. This talk will be delivered in Japanese with English translation.

This lecture covers differences between Japan and China, including relationships between the press and government, questions of Western and non-western tradition, etc. This talk is informed by Aso’s work in journalism and the NPO AsiaCommons.

This speech mainly discusses the differences in the mentalities of the Chinese and Japanese public through reviewing and revisiting the anti-Japanese protests in China in 2004 and 2012. Such demonstrations seem to have more impact on the Japanese people than on the Chinese people. It is said that after these protests, the Japanese society basically feels dismayed at the Chinese people. My talk is to explore the reasons for such differences. I will address some interviews I had with the artists living in Beijing Artist Village in the 1990s and civil society in the 2000s in order to illustrate the unique relationship between the Chinese government and its citizens as well as the ideas of Japanese people about this issue. In addition, with the above analysis and conclusions, I will talk about the future non-governmental exchanges between China and Japan and Japan’s considerations on Hong Kong and Taiwan, the Chinese ethnic relationship, and its democratization progress. If there is enough time, I will introduce the NPO activities we have sponsored and organized.

Seiichiro Aso was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1966 and graduated from the Department of Literature, Tokyo University. He has written many articles about Chinese civil society, Chinese modern art, and interpersonal relationships between Japan and China. Aso established NPO AsiaCommons, which promotes interpersonal relationships in East Asia.

His publications include "The Beijing Art Village”, “The Passion of Chinese”, “Modern China which Japanese news media does not report”, among others. He recently delivered two lectures, “Interpersonal Relationships between Japan and China” and “Modern Chinese Culture” at Kanagawa University and Saitama University.

Please register for the Zoom event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eeCr4BsDRIub4cUAz9Qefw

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:59:49 -0400 2021-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Seiichiro Aso, Journalist, Japan
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Cornucopian Stage: Dramas of Endless Surplus in Early Modern China (October 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84763 84763-21624920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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This talk takes the titular object of the play Jubaopen 聚寶盆 (Cornucopia), attributed to the Suzhou playwright Zhu Suchen 朱素臣 (ca. 1620–after 1701), as the point of departure for an exploration of the productive possibilities of early modern drama. Like the jubaopen—a magical basin that reproduces ad infinitum whatever is placed inside—the Suzhou stage poured forth strings of coin, jars of gold, and carts of silver. Here the experience of living through China’s “silver century,” when the silver extracted from Japanese and New World mines flooded the Jiangnan marketplace, metamorphosizes into a fantasy of endless accumulation. The generative capacity of the Suzhou stage was not limited to the literal appearance of treasures on stage (nor to the profits made off stage by a group of playwrights whose work is often described as “commercial”); rather, the Suzhou plays show how commercial subjects and objects can be made narratively, morally, and socially productive. This talk argues that it is in this transformation of the stage into a self-consciously productive space, and the transformation of authors, actors, and audience members into similarly productive economic subjects, that the Suzhou plays enacted an early modern imaginary that linked the stages of Jiangnan to those in the far-flung but increasingly interconnected commercial centers of Amsterdam, London, Venice, and Osaka.

Ariel Fox is an assistant professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. She received her BA in East Asian Studies from Columbia University and her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. Her work explores the intersection of literary and economic imaginaries in late imperial China. She has recently completed a book manuscript, “The Cornucopian Stage: Performing Commerce in Early Modern China,” and is currently working on a project on monetary and literary forms.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:00:01 -0400 2021-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Ariel Fox, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
CHOP Film Series | People’s Republic of Desire (2018) FILM & PANEL (October 6, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86985 86985-21637987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note that all listed times for the CHOP Film Series are Eastern Time (US & Canada).

Two live streamers seek fame, fortune and human connection in China's digital idol-making universe, ultimately finding the same promises and perils online as in their real lives. The New York Times called the film “hypercharged,” while The Los Angeles Times said it’s “invariably surprising and never less than compelling.”

1hr 18 min; Chinese with English subtitles

Winner of Grand Jury Award (Documentary) at 2018 SXSW (South by Southwest Festival).  

Discussants: Director Wu with Brian Wu (Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business) and Sheng Zou (LRCCS Postdoctoral Fellow)

Xun (Brian) Wu is Professor of Strategy and a Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He serves as the faculty director of China Initiatives. His research examines the role of firm capabilities in influencing the dynamics of corporate scope and the evolution of industries. He also explores how competitive advantage is created and destroyed when industry landscapes are reshaped by economic, technological, and institutional factors.

Sheng Zou is a postdoctoral research fellow at the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. As a scholar of media and cultural studies, he has published works on Chinese digital culture and media industries, including the live-streaming boom. He is particularly interested in how digital technologies reshape modes of cultural production and governance in China and how they refashion subjectivities, mobilities, and social interactions.

Please register for this Zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N-oXHQZ9QlWSKd9JH8cC6w

See also CHOP events on:

October 7 (All in My Family): https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events.detail.html/87186-21639350.html

October 8 (76 Days): https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events.detail.html/87188-21639351.html

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) movie series, a collaboration between LRCCS and the Asia Library, will spotlight the films of award-winning director Hao Wu 吴皓, a U-M Ross alumnus originally trained as a microbiologist who followed the internet world before focusing on filmmaking.

Hao Wu takes a raw and human approach to story-telling in an era when culture evolves online and across borders.  His recent films provide a critical examination of contemporary Chinese culture by covering China’s online universe, LGBTQ parenting, and the pandemic in Wuhan.  U-M faculty and guest discussants will add their insights into the post screening Q&A, and Director Wu will be present at all events.  The festival is being organized as a virtual mini film festival.  Please stay tuned for updates and Zoom links on the LRCCS website.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:24:21 -0400 2021-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual CHOP Film Series | People’s Republic of Desire (2018) FILM & PANEL
CHOP Film Series | All in My Family (2019) PANEL (October 7, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87186 87186-21639350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note that all listed times for the CHOP Film Series are Eastern Time (US & Canada).

A documentary short launched in May 2019 (39 min)
Independent viewing of film here: https://www.netflix.com/title/80208662

Discussants: Director Wu with Ian Shin (Assistant Professor of History & American Culture) and Ungsan Kim (Assistant Professor of Asian Cinema & Film, Television, and Media)

Ian Shin is Assistant Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan, where he is also a core faculty member in the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program. Ian specializes in the history of U.S. foreign relations and Asian American history. For AY 2021–2022, Ian is the Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow at the U-M LSA Institute for the Humanities, where he is completing his book on the politics of Chinese art collecting in the United States in the early 20th century.

Ungsan Kim is Assistant Professor of Asian Cinema jointly appointed in the departments of Asian Languages and Cultures and Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. As a scholar of film and queer studies, he has published works on queer Asian cinema and Korean culture. He is currently at work of a monograph on the temporal politics of contemporary queer Asian cinema.

Please register for this Zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1d8vxqVTS1abmXWEXj9vIA

See also CHOP events on:

October 6 (People's Republic of Desire): https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events.detail.html/86985-21637987.html

October 8 (76 Days): https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events.detail.html/87188-21639351.html

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) movie series, a collaboration between LRCCS and the Asia Library, will spotlight the films of award-winning director Hao Wu 吴皓, a U-M Ross alumnus originally trained as a microbiologist who followed the internet world before focusing on filmmaking.

Hao Wu takes a raw and human approach to story-telling in an era when culture evolves online and across borders.  His recent films provide a critical examination of contemporary Chinese culture by covering China’s online universe, LGBTQ parenting, and the pandemic in Wuhan.  U-M faculty and guest discussants will add their insights into the post screening Q&A, and Director Wu will be present at all events.  The festival is being organized as a virtual mini film festival.  Please stay tuned for updates and Zoom links on the LRCCS website.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:25:14 -0400 2021-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual CHOP Film Series | All in My Family (2019) PANEL
LRCCS 60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series | Publics, Scientists and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy (October 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84765 84765-21624921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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Literature on scientific controversies has inadequately attended to the impact of globalization and, more specifically, the emergence of China as a leader in scientific research. To bridge this gap in the literature, Professor Lei develops a theoretical framework to analyse global scientific controversies surrounding research in China. Empirically, her talk will discuss the human genome editing controversy surrounding research conducted by scientists in China between 2015 and 2019. It shows how elite scientists negotiated expert– public relationships within and across the national and transnational expert spheres, how unexpected disruption at the nexus of the four spheres disrupted expert–public relationships as envisioned by elite experts, and how the Chinese state intervened to redraw the boundary between openness and secrecy at both national and transnational levels.

Ya-Wen Lei is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, and is affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She is the author of "The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media and Authoritarian Rule in China" (Princeton University Press, 2018). Her articles have appeared in American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Law & Society Review, Socius, Political Communication, and Work, Employment and Society.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Oct 2021 12:56:06 -0400 2021-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Ya-Wen Lei, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Lost in Translation: Chinese Literature and World Literature at the International Writing Program (1979-1988) (October 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84790 84790-21624978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series

The International Writing Program (IWP), co-founded by American poet Paul Engle and his wife, Sinophone novelist Hua-ling Nieh Engle at the University of Iowa, invited 57 writers from mainland China, 64 from Taiwan and 29 from Hong Kong from 1979 to 2019. Bringing literary representations of the residency by Chinese writers into a productive dialogue with field research and historical analysis, the talk will show that translation functioned as a tool for not only literary exchange but also cultural diplomacy in the tumultuous “first encounters” between Chinese literature and world literature on the platforms provided by IWP.

Jin Feng 馮進received her PhD in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2000. She is Professor of Chinese, the Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature, and Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Grinnell College. She has published four English monographs: "The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction" (Purdue, 2004), "The Making of a Family Saga" (SUNY, 2009), "Romancing the Internet" (Brill, 2013), and "Tasting Paradise on Earth" (U of Washington, 2019), three Chinese books such as "The Foodies’ Book" (Chihuo zhi shu, 2020), and numerous articles in both English and Chinese. She is currently researching and writing on the institutionalization of creative writing in China.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:33:34 -0400 2021-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jin Feng, Professor of Chinese, Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature; Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Grinnell College
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Ecology of China’s Early Political Systems (October 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84787 84787-21624974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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By encouraging us to rethink familiar historical processes through an ecological lens, the field of environmental history provides new insights into the past. Professor Lander’s forthcoming book The King’s Harvest uses such an ecological perspective to examine the formation of political organizations in early China. Since early political systems were funded by the grain taxes of common farmers, it follows that these systems literally ran on solar energy collected by plants, so we should think of them as organizations dedicated to mobilizing photosynthetic energy. Early states devoted much of that energy to assembling large groups of men to fight with other groups of armed men, but they also used it to expand farmland and increase the human population in the interests of increasing their tax income. This paper will use these insights to explore the history of the state and empire of Qin (c. 800-207 BCE). Qin established the centralized bureaucratic empire which became the standard model of political organization in China, bequeathing subsequent empires with administrative skills that helped them thoroughly transform East Asia’s environments.

Brian Lander studies the environmental history and archaeology of early China. He is an assistant professor at Brown University, where he teaches in history and environmental studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:21:13 -0400 2021-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Brian Lander, Assistant Professor of History and Environment Studies, Department of History, Brown University
LRCCS 60th Anniversary Author Series | Reading *The Fortunes* (October 26, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86988 86988-21637991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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https://myumi.ch/yKegj

The Center’s 60th anniversary programming will feature author Peter Ho Davies, Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, as he offers a reading from The Fortunes, a novel that recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational story through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this work captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood. Building fact into fiction, spinning fiction around fact, Davies uses each of these stories—three inspired by real historical characters—to examine the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:25:38 -0400 2021-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Peter Ho Davies, U-M Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature
In Search of China's Soul ~ WebinART | Architecture with Chinese Characteristics: How the Past is Driving New Ideas for China's Future Cities (October 27, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86987 86987-21637990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Join top architects and urban thinkers for a wide-ranging discussion on China’s cities of the future. For decades, China’s planners focused on tearing down the old, and building the new in order to fuel the nation’s rapid development. Glistening cities rose, while psychological and social costs took a back seat. Today, as China struts more confidently on the world stage, its architects are reaching back to Chinese tradition to reinvent urban planning—and redefine what it means to be modern. Speakers include LRCCS Associate Director Lan Deng, Professor of Urban Planning, Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Shuishan Yu, Associate Professor of Architecture and Affiliate Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University; Wang Hui, Principal Architect and Co-founder of URBANUS Architecture & Design Inc.; and Xu Lei, Chief Architect and Director of the Yihe Architectural Design and Research Center of the China Architecture Design and Research Institute.

Please register in advance here: https://www.chinainstitute.org/event/architecture-with-chinese-characteristics-how-the-past-is-driving-new-ideas-for-chinas-future-cities/

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:49:00 -0400 2021-10-27T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-27T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual In Search of China's Soul ~ WebinART | Architecture with Chinese Characteristics: How the Past is Driving New Ideas for China's Future Cities
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Weighing the Matter of Water in the Imperial Politics of Han China (November 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85307 85307-21626209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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The Great Wall of China is an iconic and salient reminder of China’s long history of empire building. When there are no recoverable walls or big infrastructures to speak of, what is an archaeologist of empires to do? This presentation considers what the political might look like in light of material ruins of a more pedestrian kind and as represented by ongoing excavations of drinking wells in colonial sites in Yunnan China. What can these artifacts tell us about the materiality of water and how environmental knowledge is produced?

Alice Yao is an anthropological archaeologist who received her PhD from the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan in 2008. An associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, she is the author of "The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China: An Archaeological History from the Bronze Age to the Han Empire" (Oxford University Press) and the forthcoming monograph, “Archaeologies of the Han Empire” (Cambridge University Press), co-authored with Wengcheong Lam. Her fieldwork uses material and paleoenvironmental records to examine Bronze Age political systems in Yunnan, early foundations of the Southern Silk Roads, and Han colonial expansion.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:47:20 -0400 2021-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Alice Yao, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | When Campaign-Style Enforcement Meets Local Strategic Compliance: The Case of National Affordable Housing (November 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84788 84788-21624975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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Campaign-style enforcement is often touted in China as a uniquely effective mechanism to ensure local implementation of national policies. Typically seen in regulatory policies but later extended to social policies, campaign-style enforcement features strong political mandates with numeric targets, massive mobilization of fiscal and administrative resources, and political performance evaluation rooted in China’s hierarchical governmental system. Dr. Liu and her research collaborators’ mixed-method analysis of the national affordable housing mandate during the Twelfth-Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) reveals a nuanced process in which cities adapt the top-down housing mandate to local conditions, thereby leading to a diversity of compliance strategies adopted by local governments.

Zhilin Liu is Associate Professor and the Director of the Public Policy Institute in the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing. She received her PhD in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University in 2007, as well as her Masters Degree in Urban Geography (2002), and Bachelor Degree in Urban and Regional Planning (1999) from Peking University. Her main research interests are in urban governance, housing policy and community development, sustainable urbanization, rural-to-urban migration, institutional theory and multi-level governance. She has published widely in English peer-review journals, including Urban Studies, Cities, Urban Affairs Review, Housing Studies, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Policy Sciences, and numerous Chinese academic journals. She currently serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis and a member of the Board of Directors for the International Association of China Planning.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:24:51 -0400 2021-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Zhilin Liu Associate Professor and Director, Public Policy Institute, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Framing China: Visual Technologies, Missionary Modernity, and Transnational Visions in Sino-US Encounters (November 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84789 84789-21624976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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Cameras and visual technologies accompanied American missionaries as they undertook cultural, political, and religious projects in Republican China through the first years of the People’s Republic. These evolving visual practices and products, however, ultimately escaped their missionary mold and entered global imaginations, coloring American views of modern China alongside Chinese engagements with the world. In this talk, Professor Ho explores intersections between image-making, contested identities, and transnational ways of seeing – many of which transformed 20th century Sino-US encounters on both sides of the lens.

Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director of the Prentiss M. Brown Honors Program at Albion College, as well as a Center Associate at the LRCCS. His research concerns transnational visual culture, histories of photography and film, global Christianity, and Sino-US experiences in modern East Asia. Professor Ho is the co-editor of "War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938" (Lehigh University Press, 2017) and the author of "Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China" (Cornell University Press, 2021).

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:27:58 -0400 2021-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Joseph W. Ho, Assistant Professor of History, East Asian History, Albion College
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Logic of Social Media Repression in China (November 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84933 84933-21625308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series

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In this talk Dr. Miller discusses the logic of state-repression on social media in China and present research in progress on how Chinese citizens experience and respond to repression online. Drawing on online experiments and government documents, he identifies several distinct repressive strategies in the online public sphere in China.

Blake Miller is an Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science in the Methodology Department at the London School of Economics. He received his PhD in Political Science and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan in 2018 where he was also a graduate research affiliate in the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. Before coming to LSE, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Dartmouth College Program in Quantitative Social Science. For more information, please visit www.blakeapm.com.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 04 Aug 2021 09:39:14 -0400 2021-11-23T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-23T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Blake Miller, Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, Methodology Department, London School of Economics
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Catching up with the West: Chinese Households Join the Global Middle Class (November 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84935 84935-21625309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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If we define ‘middle class’ with reference to incomes and living standards in developed western countries, how large is China’s middle class? Estimates using this definition show the dramatic emergence of China’s middle class, which rose from only 2% of the population in 2007 to 25% in 2018, and which holds implications for China and the world.

Terry Sicular is Professor of Economics at Western University (Canada). She is a leading North American expert on the Chinese economy. In recent years she has been involved with the China Household Income Project, an ongoing household survey research project, and her research has focused on topics related to household incomes, inequality, poverty, the middle class, and education in China.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 04 Aug 2021 09:43:58 -0400 2021-11-30T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | A Vineyard Garden in the Afterlife: The Shi Jun/Wirkak Tomb (580 CE) and Viticulture on the Silk Road (December 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84936 84936-21625310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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This talk discusses visual representations of vineyard gardens in 6th-century China. By focusing on the sarcophagus of Shi Jun or Wirkak (494-579 CE), a Sogdian immigrant from Central Asia, it explores a range of issues related to viticulture and wine making on the Silk Road, including the spread and transformation of Dionysian motifs, the entanglement between Buddhism and wine culture, and above all, the association of vineyard gardens with paradise.

Jin Xu is an assistant professor of Art History and Asian Studies at Vassar College. He received his PhD in art history at the University of Chicago. His research has been focusing on religious and cultural exchanges on the Silk Road as reflected in Chinese art during the sixth and seventh centuries AD. His articles appear in journals such as the Burlington Magazine, the Journal of Asian Studies, and the Sino-Platonic Papers. Currently he is writing a book manuscript titled “Beyond Boundaries: Sogdian Sarcophagi and the Art of an Immigrant Community in Early Medieval China.”

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:00:41 -0400 2021-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jin Xu, Assistant Professor Art History and Asian Studies, Vassar College
Addressing Discrimination in the Asian Diaspora (December 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89343 89343-21662063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This event is intended for K-14 Educators.

Free to participate via Zoom!

Just fill out the Google Form: https://bit.ly/umicheastasia21

What are the Asian and Asian-American discrimination issues that students, teachers, and individuals are struggling to understand in today’s globalized world? How do teachers interweave the politics of immigration into world history and civics curriculum? What makes a place a home for someone, and how do we build on the storyscapes of the under-written histories of anti-Asian racism and Asian-American identity?

Removing the screen from “over there,” experts in Area and Asian-American studies will explore identity, immigration and nationality and provide a discussion forum for applying these ideas into classroom use. Content covered will include snapshots from mid-19th century-20th century histories of China, Japan and Korea; the push-pull factors for immigration; exclusionary immigration policies; and the nuances of Asian American identity. Insights will be made into Asian-ness as well as “Asian-Americanness,” with one of the takeaways being the “hyphen" in hyphenated ethnicities, the middle ground to individuality and self.

FORMAT:

A virtual learning event through morning mini-talks followed by conversation/Q&A and an afternoon collaborative discussion forum bracketed according to grade level.

Suggestions for pre-workshop reading will be available.

Resources and books available through the U-M Books for Peaceful Purposes Grant.

Looking forward to another amazing interactive day of knowledge, expertise and networking... the outreach team at TVI East Asia Centers, University of Michigan

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Dec 2021 15:54:48 -0500 2021-12-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-11T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual 2021 U-M East Asia Workshop | Addressing Discrimination in the Asian Diaspora
LRCCS MLK Event | Black Lives and Asian Medicine (January 17, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90515 90515-21671210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 17, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Zoom Registration Link: https://myumi.ch/DJwwy

After the death of George Floyd, practitioners of traditional Asian medicine began to examine some of the racist biases that affected their own field. It quickly became apparent that the contributions of Black communities to both the practice and popularization of Asian medicine were missing from the histories that most practitioners know. Yi-Li Wu, associate professor of history and women's and gender studies and faculty associate at LRCCS, will discuss the role that the Black Panther Party and the Black Acupuncturist Association have played in bringing alternative Asian medical treatments to the United States. She will also discuss the process of self-reflection and study that led the journal, Asian Medicine, to critique its own racialized dynamics and commit to producing a special issue on this subject.
 
Yi-Li Wu is the author of *Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China* (UC Press). She holds a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in international relations and a PhD in history from Yale University. She was a faculty member at Albion College for thirteen years and subsequently a researcher with the EASTMedicine group at the University of Westminster (UK). Her publications on society, culture, and the body in late imperial China have examined breast cancer, medical iconography, forensics, bone setting, the circulation of Chinese medicine in Korea, and Chinese views of European medicine. She is completing a monograph on the history of medicine for injuries and wounds in China, using this subfield of literate medicine to explore how experiences of the material and structural body shaped the development of Chinese medical thought.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jan 2022 08:44:53 -0500 2022-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 2022-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion LRCCS MLK Event | Black Lives and Asian Medicine
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Blue Maps of China (January 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90685 90685-21672280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In the first decades of the nineteenth century, large-format woodblock-printed terrestrial and celestial maps were produced in bright blue in China. These visually striking maps in addition to their physical scale are unique in the history of not only East Asian but world map making traditions. This presentation introduces these blue maps, historicizing them from the late Ming through Qing dynasties and considers numerous aspects of their production especially in light of recent analysis performed at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Conservation Center and the Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard University.

Please register in advance for this Zoom seminar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zxRRberdR4e6f18TAkEifQ

Richard A. Pegg is currently Director and Curator of Asian Art for the MacLean Collection, an Asian art museum and separate map library located north of Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Pegg has a BA and MA in East Asian Literature from The George Washington University and a PhD in East Asian Art History from Columbia University. He has written and lectured widely on the visual, literary, cartographic and martial arts traditions of East Asia. His most recent research has been focused on the cartography of East Asia, authoring two books: "Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps" (2014) and "The Blue Maps of China" (forthcoming).

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:37:51 -0500 2022-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Richard Pegg, Director and Curator of Asian Art, The MacLean Collection
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Bring Your Own Workers: Chinese OFDI, Chinese Oversea Workers, and Collective Labor Rights in Africa (February 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90687 90687-21672282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series

Chinese multinational corporations (MNCs) in Africa have often invited criticism for hiring Chinese expatriates at the expense of native workers. Do Chinese firms increase the number of Chinese expatriate workers, and if so, do they rely more heavily on expatriate workers than do MNCs from other sources? In this talk, she discusses when and why Chinese MNCs rely on Chinese expatriate workers and how host countries' institutions influence Chinese MNCs' decisions to bring expatriate workers.

Please register in advance for this Zoom seminar: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5jMMEtOCTSqDSxI2R8Be1A

Yujeong Yang is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 2018 where she was also a graduate research affiliate in the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese studies. Her research interests include labor politics and welfare politics in authoritarian regimes, with a regional focus on China.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 07 Jan 2022 16:11:51 -0500 2022-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yujeong Yang, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
CANCELED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Reincarnations of Power Amongst the Mongols: From Möngke Tengri to the Śiditü Lama (February 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90783 90783-21673907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Note: The talk by Sangseraima Ujeed, originally scheduled for February 8, 2022, will be rescheduled for a different date.

To date, the historical Tibeto-Mongolian symbiosis has been analyzed from the perspective of Tibeto-centric or China-centric political histories. In this talk, Dr. Ujeed reexamines the religio-cultural developments of Buddhism and Buddhist identity amongst the Mongols from the Mongol Empire through to the Qing period. As well as revisiting well-known religio-historical works, her main case studies are extracted from newly obtained Mongolian and Tibetan language Buddhist biographies, religious histories, and records of received teachings from the early modern period. Collectively, these case studies will demonstrate how the Mongols engagement with Tibetan Buddhism was fundamental for the dissemination and development of the wider Tibetan Buddhist tradition far beyond the realms on the steppe.

Sangseraima Ujeed, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received her MSt and DPhil degrees in Oriental Studies from the Department of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Her main research focus is the trans-national, trans-regional, and cross-cultural aspects of Buddhism, lineage, translation, monastic and reincarnation networks, and identity in Tibet and Mongolia in the Early Modern period, with a particular emphasis on the contributions made by ethnically Mongolian monk scholars.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:15:03 -0500 2022-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Sangseraima Ujeed, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Two Spectacles, Two Crowds: A Dialogue on Zhang Yimou’s Olympic Ceremonies, 2008 and 2022 (February 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91972 91972-21684709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Note: The talk by Sangseraima Ujeed, originally scheduled for February 8, 2022, will be rescheduled for a different date.

Beijing’s 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremonies still boast the largest live audience in history: a TV crowd of some 2 billion people. This also makes the event one of the most widely misunderstood pieces of political theater in our time. Drawing from his shifting career as international laureate and state artist, director Zhang Yimou put together a double act for a double audience. In this discussion with Ann Lin, LRCCS Director, Dr. Osgood will discuss the legacy of Zhang Yimou’s historic show and the significance of its 2022 sequel.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PmIUlkESQLKdLgqTFwregQ

Miles Osgood is a Lecturer at Stanford University whose research focuses on the intersections between international sports, world literature, and the arts. His work on the Olympics has appeared in The Washington Post, n+1, and Public Books, with an article forthcoming in Modernism/modernity. He is currently writing a book about the Cultural Olympiad of 1968 in Mexico City, provisionally titled The Artist’s Torch. His recent article about the 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony appeared in Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2022/02/2008-beijing-olympics-opening-ceremony-zhang-yimou-meaning.html

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 04 Feb 2022 09:19:16 -0500 2022-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Miles Osgood, Lecturer, Stanford University
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (February 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90784 90784-21673908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series

China was once the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? Yuhua Wang will discuss his new book "The Rise and Fall of Imperial China," which offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required. You may do so here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5obeoPFaToChJMK8v_yeBg

Yuhua Wang is the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of "Tying the Autocrat’s Hands: The Rise of the Rule of Law in China" (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and "The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development" (Princeton University Press, 2022). Dr. Wang received his BA from Peking University and PhD from the University of Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:38:36 -0500 2022-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yuhua Wang, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University
CHOP Film Series | "Beethoven in Beijing" Feature-length Documentary Film (February 21, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91434 91434-21679573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) Film Series, Michigan Theater with Director Jennifer Lin and discussant, Assoc. Prof. Tiffany Ng

Beethoven in Beijing, a feature-length documentary that premiered on PBS’s Great Performances, spotlights the resurgence of classical music in China through the legacy of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the first American orchestra to perform in the People’s Republic in 1973. At the invitation of President Richard Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, the orchestra harnessed the power of music to help dismantle decades of isolation between the two superpowers. Today, China is energizing the world of classical music with legions of young musicians, glittering new concert halls and a lineup of superstar artists and composers. This remarkable story—heralded by the Wall Street Journal as “a treat”—is brought to life through the Philadelphia Orchestra’s nearly half-century experience in China, featuring such charismatic personalities as Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, pianist Lang Lang, and Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun.

Purchase tickets here: https://michtheater.org/beethoven-in-beijing

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:05:41 -0500 2022-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening "Beethoven in Beijing" Feature-length Documentary Film
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Glitches in Art Historical Flow, ca. 1750 (February 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90969 90969-21675112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The history of ink painting in early modern China is often told as a history of uninterrupted lineages and seamless transmission through time. There were, however, passages in that history when transmission was not so certain, and artists developed modes of painting that put under pressure teachings and standards inherited from the past. This was the case of Zheng Xie (1693-1765) whose monochrome ink orchids were conceived as a string of tiny but effective disruptions of the technical and aesthetic principles of monochrome ink painting. Focusing on Zheng Xie’s late production, this talk explores what glitches, errors, and flaws tell us about mid-Qing artists’ attitudes toward the legacy of the past and the value they assigned to defective hands and imperfect tools to engage with a crumbling world.

Zoom webinar registration at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Aqz73aUHScy8WtkDk28yhQ

Michele Matteini is Assistant Professor at New York University. He specializes on painting and antiquarian culture of the Qing period. His book, "A Ghost in the City: Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century Beijing" is forthcoming later this year.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Feb 2022 10:44:23 -0500 2022-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Glitches in Art Historical Flow, ca. 1750
Caravans, Cultures, and Chinggis Khan Along the Silk Route (March 2, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90221 90221-21668755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The Silk Route is a collection of pathways that, together, link China to Vienna, Istanbul, Baghdad, and India across the Inner Asian steppe and desert. During our meetings participants will discuss the Silk Route as a cultural conduit, on the one hand, as the source of empire and technologies, on the other, and look at specific examples of cultural dissemination. The Silk Route has provided some of the most engaging and best written volumes of travel literature.

There will be no required readings, but students may enjoy Owen Lattimore’s “The Desert Road to Turkestan”, from 1928, or the Franciscan William of Rubruck’s account of his journey to Karakorum in 1255, where he found a Parisian goldsmith preparing a soft drink dispenser for the Khan.

Instructor Rudi Lindner will lead this study group.

This class meets on Wednesdays, from Mach 2– March 30. No classes on holidays.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 21 Dec 2021 18:10:25 -0500 2022-03-02T13:00:00-05:00 2022-03-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Musical Connections in Challenging Times: Beethoven, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Critical Nature of Cultural Exchange with China (March 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90970 90970-21675113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk will explore how Beethoven became an iconic figure in the People’s Republic of China and consider the role that his music, and classical music in general, has played in China’s internal politics and diplomatic relationships. The Philadelphia Orchestra’s history, and example, as a bridge builder between the US and China will receive particular focus.

Zoom webinar registration at: https://myumi.ch/P1bky

Jindong Cai: A conductor, author, and educator with a distinguished career, Jindong Cai is the director of the US-China Music Institute, co-director of the Chinese Music Development Initiative, and professor of music and arts at Bard College. Prior to joining Bard, he was a professor of performance at Stanford University. Over the 30 years of his career in the United States, Cai has established himself as an active and dynamic conductor, scholar of Western classical music in China, and leading advocate of music from across Asia. He has conducted most of the top orchestras in China, as well as orchestras across North America, and has written extensively on music and the performing arts in China. Together with his wife Sheila Melvin, Cai has coauthored "Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese" as well as "Beethoven in China: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People’s Republic."

Sheila Melvin is the co-author, with her husband, the conductor Jindong Cai, of "Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese," which was short-listed for the Saroyan Prize in 2005; "Beethoven in China: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People’s Republic" (Penguin, 2016), which was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered;” and "The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra: Music Connecting Worlds" (Sanlian, 2019 limited edition). Ms. Melvin’s writing on the arts in Asia, primarily China, has been published in The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The San Jose Mercury News, The Wilson Quarterly, and other publications.

Ms. Melvin is also a writer for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Earlier in her career, she spent many years working for the US-China Business Council and established the Council’s first office in Shanghai. She is the author of "The Little Red Book of China Business" (Sourcebooks, 2008).

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:01:13 -0500 2022-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jindong Cai, Professor of Music and Arts at Bard College Director, US-China Music Institute Co-Director, Chinese Music Development Initiative; and Sheila Melvin, Writer, Author and Consultant
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society (March 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92455 92455-21691574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/Aw1Ew

In this talk, Dr. Diamant takes a look at what happened when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) encouraged millions of citizens to read, listen to, pose questions about, and suggest revisions to drafts of new constitutions, and the implications of such constitutional talk for how we understand constitutionalism and political legitimacy. In promulgating constitutions and then allowing people to talk about them, the CCP opened up political space for people to criticize the party, the revolution, and the constitution, which they did in a variety of ways. They pressed authorities to clarify the meaning of words, phrases, and ideas in constitutions and proposed numerous suggestions for revision. From the very beginning many called out the Party for engaging in what the philosopher Harry Frankfurt called “bullshit.” Despite these reputational costs, the CCP continues to make constitutions a critical element of its governing strategy. At the same time, citizens continue to refer to constitutions in their contestations with the state despite knowing that its articles are not enforced. This talk examines both the bullshit element of constitutions as well as why they are useful for the CCP and citizens.

Neil J. Diamant is the Walter E. Beach ’56 Chair in Political Science and Professor of Asian Law and Society at Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA). In addition to "Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society" (Cornell University Press, 2021), Diamant is the author of "Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968" (University of California Press, 2000), "Embattled Glory: Veterans, Military Families, and the Politics of Patriotism in China, 1949-2007" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), as well as the co-author of "The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the 20th Century: A Comparative History" (Cornell University Press, 2020). He also co-edited "Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice" (Stanford University Press, 2005). He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:15:16 -0500 2022-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Neil J. Diamant, Walter E. Beach ’56 Chair in Political Science, Professor of Asian Law and Society, Dickinson College
Asian Language Fair (March 18, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91745 91745-21682699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 11:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Are you interested in learning more about the Asian languages taught at the University of Michigan? The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures invites you to the Asian Languages Fair, featuring representatives from the Chinese Language Program, Japanese Language Program, Korean Language Program, South Asian Language Program, and Southeast Asian Language Program.

You are invited to come learn about opportunities at UM to study the following languages: Bengali, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Thai, Tibetan, Urdu, and Vietnamese. There will also be opportunities to win raffle prizes.

All attendees will be required to check-in with staff and present their ResponsiBlue Screening Check results for the day.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:54:25 -0400 2022-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Asian Languages and Cultures Fair / Festival Language Fair Poster
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia (March 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90973 90973-21675115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

What is the relationship between internal development and integration into the global economy in developing countries? How and why do state–market relations differ? And do these differences matter in the post-cold war era of global conflict and cooperation? Drawing on research in China, India, and Russia and examining sectors from textiles to telecommunications, Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism introduces a new theory of sectoral pathways to globalization and development.

Zoom webinar registration at: https://myumi.ch/29jrN

Roselyn Hsueh is an associate professor of political science at Temple University, where she co-directs the Certificate in Political Economy. She is the author of "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia" (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2022), "China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization" (Cornell University Press, 2011), and scholarly articles on states and markets, comparative regulation and governance, and political economy of development. She is a frequent commentator on politics, finance and trade, and economic development in China and beyond. BBC World News, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, National Public Radio, and The Washington Post, among other media outlets, have featured her research. Prestigious fellowships, such as the Fulbright Global Scholar Award, have funded international fieldwork and she has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She holds a BA and PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

*This event is cosponsored by the U-M Center for South Asian Studies, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:16:58 -0400 2022-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Roselyn Hsueh, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Temple University
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | “New People” Found in Translation: A Dialogue between Chinese and Global Science Fiction (April 5, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90974 90974-21675116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Literary imaginations about modern China are often synonymous with imaginations about “new people.” This talk focuses on how such imaginations unfolded and evolved in 20th-century Chinese science fiction. In particular, it calls attention to the dynamic interaction between translation and creation, and to the genre’s close engagement with ongoing ideological and literary debates within the national context.

Zoom webinar registration at: https://myumi.ch/G172z

Jing Jiang is Associate Professor of Chinese and Humanities at Reed College. She teaches courses on Chinese language, literature, and culture. Aside from her book on twentieth century Chinese science fiction, she is also published in "Asian Cinema, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Cultural Critique, and Positions." She received the ACLS Pauline Yu Fellowship in 2020, and is currently working on a new book project tentatively titled "The World Embedded in Modern Chinese Literary Imagination."

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:03:11 -0500 2022-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jing Jiang, Associate Professor of Chinese and Humanities, Reed College
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Making of “Good” Citizens: Examining the Mechanism of and Public Support for China’s Social Credit System (April 12, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90975 90975-21675117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Zoom webinar registration at: https://myumi.ch/DJW8G

This talk examines citizen scoring in and public support for China’s Social Credit System (SCS). In the first study, Dr. Fan analyzed the mechanism of credit scoring embedded in the SCS and show two facets of the SCS: a normative apparatus fostering “good” citizens and a regulative apparatus normalizing “deviant” behaviors. In the second study, he used a survey experiment to test how different types of monitored behaviors (financial versus non-financial behaviors) and media framing (Chinese media versus Western media) explain public support for the SCS. The findings suggest that when exposed to western media framing, Chinese citizens’ support decreases, but only when they are told that the SCS monitors citizens’ social behavior. In conclusion, he argues that the SCS illustrates the significant shift in which state actors increasingly become data processors whereas citizens are reconfigured as data subjects that can be measured and compared.

Fan Liang (PhD, University of Michigan) is an Assistant Professor of Media in the Division of Social Sciences at Duke Kunshan University. His research examines how new communication technologies construct social and political changes. His research has received recognition and support from the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, American Council of Learned Societies, Volkswagen Foundation, International Communication Association, and other organizations.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Mar 2022 08:16:19 -0400 2022-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Fan Liang, Assistant Professor of Media, Duke Kunshan University
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Dreams and Memories in the Making of the Ivens Documentary A Tale of the Wind (April 19, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90976 90976-21675118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk uses the Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens’ (1898-1989) "love letter to China," his 1988 film Une Histoire de vent (A Tale of the Wind) as a case study to explore the profound connection between fiction and documentary, between biography and history, and between private life and collective experience. Ivens’ use of dream sequences, personal memories, and characters from Chinese legend, fiction, and film in his last documentary film shot on location in China, speak volumes about the importance of the twin foci of dream and the everyday in forging social documentaries through fictional representations.

Zoom webinar registration at: https://myumi.ch/RWQ3W

Liang Luo is a professor of Chinese studies at the University of Kentucky and a distinguished visiting professor at Tianjin Normal University. She is the author of "The Global White Snake" (Michigan 2021) and "The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China" (Michigan 2014). She is working on a new book and documentary project, tentatively titled “Profound Propaganda: The International Avant-Garde and Modern China.”

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:04:34 -0500 2022-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Liang Luo, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Kentucky
LRCCS - WebinARTS | "Dream of the Red Chamber" with Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang (April 21, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94624 94624-21752807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 21, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required. Please register here: https://myumi.ch/3knq3

Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢), one of China’s four great classic novels, tells the story of the rise and decline a wealthy imperial Chinese family, and by extension, the rise and decline of the Qing dynasty itself. The novel was adapted as an English-language Opera composed by Bright Sheng with libretto by Sheng and David Henry Hwang, which premiered at the San Francisco Opera in 2016.

On April 21, join composer Bright Sheng and Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang to explore the world of their Dream of the Red Chamber which returns to the San Francisco Opera House this June. Sheng and Hwang, in conversation with Ann Chih Lin, Director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, will share what it takes to adapt this rich and complex world to a different medium, and why this story still resonates with readers and viewers alike more than two centuries after it was first written.

*This event is co-presented by China Institute and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (LRCCS) at the University of Michigan.*

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 14 Apr 2022 11:57:00 -0400 2022-04-21T19:30:00-04:00 2022-04-21T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS ~ WebinARTS | "Dream of the Red Chamber" with Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang
The Heart of Collaborations: Exploring future cardiovascular joint research between Michigan Medicine and PKUHSC (April 29, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94586 94586-21751046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UMMS Global REACH

Join experts from Michigan Medicine and PKUHSC to explore future collaborations in cardiovascular medicine. Cardiovascular research has long been a pillar of the Joint Institute, with 15 funded projects since the JI was first established in 2010. What does the future joint cardiovascular research look like? Experts from both PKUHSC and U-M will discuss their work and explore potential projects and partnerships in this area.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:09:28 -0400 2022-04-29T07:00:00-04:00 2022-04-29T08:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UMMS Global REACH Livestream / Virtual Joint Institute Logo
LRCCS Conference Keynote Address | Getting China Right in Research and in Policy (June 3, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95284 95284-21789120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 3, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Central Campus Classroom Building
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Getting China Right Conference 2022 is a Luce Foundation-funded series of workshops for political scientists studying China. The workshop brings together scholars at US universities who study China to discuss fieldwork strategies, data access and methodologies, collaboration, and troubleshooting problems related to the pandemic and travel constraints. The keynote speech of the Getting China Right Conference 2022 is open to the public. The Keynote Speaker is Professor Emeritus Kenneth Lieberthal.

*This conference is cosponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation, the University of Michigan International Institute, the U-M Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (LRCCS), and the U-M Office of the Provost.*

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at gettingchinaright2022@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 27 May 2022 10:32:04 -0400 2022-06-03T16:00:00-04:00 2022-06-03T17:30:00-04:00 Central Campus Classroom Building Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Conference / Symposium LRCCS Conference | Getting China Right: Studying China in the (Post) COVID Era
DHRC Panel Discussion | Responding to China's Actions in Xinjiang: Are Economic Sanctions a Route to Improving Human Rights? (September 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96822 96822-21793372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

This panel will discuss China's policies toward Uighurs in Xinjiang and the use of economic sanctions in response to these abuses. We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of sanctions as used by the United States government, private companies, and universities -- including the University of Michigan. Do these sanctions bring about meaningful change? How can they be improved and enforced? Or are they are an excuse for economic protectionism? What if they serve to shift imports to other countries with equally poor human rights records?. A distinguished panel of scholars and practitioners will debate these issues.

Panelists:

Louisa Greve, Director of Global Advocacy, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Luis CDeBaca, Ambassador at Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons under Pres. Obama; Professor from Practice, U-M Law School

Shannon Tiezzi , Editor in Chief of The Diplomat

Ravi Anupindi, Chair of the University of Michigan's President's Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights; Professor of Business, U-M Ross School

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:13:48 -0400 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion DHRC Panel Discussion | Responding to China's Actions in Xinjiang: Are Economic Sanctions a Route to Improving Human Rights?
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Trips and Traps: How Rodents in China and America Experienced the Korean War (September 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96547 96547-21792875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In 1952, American prisoners captured in the Korean War accused their own government of using bacterial warfare (BW) against civilians. Searching for ways to counter this supposed demonstration of Communist brainwashing, the American government tested novel, mind-altering chemicals such as LSD on human and animal subjects. At the same time, the Chinese government launched national rodent-killing campaigns to eradicate the vectors of diseases such as plague. This presentation shows how communities of rodents separated by the Pacific Ocean experienced these semi-scientific responses to the conflict in the Korean peninsula.

In addition to the in-person format, this event will also be streamed via Zom. Please register for the Zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yHtPiDbHT-y2tEOG167udQ

Peter Braden is a postdoctoral fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. He is a historian whose research interests include environmental history, science and technology studies, and animal studies. His first book manuscript is titled “Serve the People: Bovine Experiences in China's Civil War and Revolution, 1935-1961.” Peter is using his time at the LRCCS to publish his first book and to develop his second monograph, “Collateral Killing: Humans, Rodents, and Medicine in China: 1940-1980.” Before joining the LRCCS, he received his doctorate in history from the University of California-San Diego, and completed an An Wang postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:31:41 -0400 2022-09-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
The Premodern Colloquium. Arboreal Aesthetics: Trees, Traces, and Trails in the Art of Wen Zhengming (1470–1559) (September 25, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97918 97918-21795317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 25, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This is an essay extended from my larger project considering an ecocritical approach to Chinese painting. I look at Wen Zhengming's *Seven Junipers* as an example. My discussion illustrates how the artist reimagined place (a Daoist temple in Changshu) with a sense of deeper time by reconstituting the constellation of old trees in a holistic composition.

By this means, I argue, Wen revealed the limitations of an anthropocentric worldview: the torn and twisted web of arboreal imprint stands for the vicissitudes of the living world and the cosmos. The challenge of the project is to situate the case study in a global context. Can we relate it to current intellectual debates about the human-world relationship and its politics?

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:07:09 -0400 2022-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Wen Zhenming, Locust Tree Tent, Ming dynasty
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Reincarnations of Power Amongst the Mongols: From Möngke Tengri to the Śiditü Lama (September 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96516 96516-21792613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

To date, the historical Tibeto-Mongolian symbiosis has been analyzed from the perspective of Tibeto-centric or China-centric political histories. In this talk, Dr. Ujeed reexamines the religio-cultural developments of Buddhism and Buddhist identity amongst the Mongols from the Mongol Empire through to the Qing period. As well as revisiting well-known religio-historical works, her main case studies are extracted from newly obtained Mongolian and Tibetan language Buddhist biographies, religious histories, and records of received teachings from the early modern period. Collectively, these case studies will demonstrate how the Mongols engagement with Tibetan Buddhism was fundamental for the dissemination and development of the wider Tibetan Buddhist tradition far beyond the realms on the steppe.

In addition to the in-person format, this event will also be streamed via Zom. Please register for the Zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CP6CCQhrS-iwuFreoJvQYA

Sangseraima Ujeed, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received her MSt and DPhil degrees in Oriental Studies from the Department of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Her main research focus is the trans-national, trans-regional, and cross-cultural aspects of Buddhism, lineage, translation, monastic and reincarnation networks, and identity in Tibet and Mongolia in the Early Modern period, with a particular emphasis on the contributions made by ethnically Mongolian monk scholars.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:32:15 -0400 2022-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Sangseraima Ujeed, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan