Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 18, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-18T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Winners and Losers of the Belt and Road (February 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70224 70224-17549994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

An on-the-ground look at some of the local communities that are being impacted by China's Belt and Road initiative and the broader New Silk Road with an in-depth look at impact areas in Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Georgia, and Poland. What communities are benefiting from the development boom? What communities are being wiped off the map?

Wade Shepard is an author/journalist/filmmaker who has been on the road since 1999, working in over 90 countries. He is the author of "Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities Without People in the World's Most Populated Country," which recounts the two and a half years he spent in China's sparsely populated new cities. His latest book is called "On the New Silk Road: Journeys through China's Artery of Power," which covers the three years he spent traveling up and down the Belt and Road trying to decipher out what is actually going on. Wade has been a guest on top news programs, including BBC World News, NPR 'Morning Edition,' CNBC 'Squawk Box,' ABC News 'The World,' and CCTV China 24.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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, 05 Feb 2020 14:59:33 -0500 2020-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Wade Shepard, Author/Journalist/Filmmaker
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 19, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-19T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 20, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-20T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
LRCCS and Asia Library Deep Dive Lecture | Localist Turns: A Data-Driven Approach to Chinese Local History (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73004 73004-18123110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The “Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies” series is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (LRCCS) and the Asia Library, and is co-directed by Mary Gallagher (Professor of Political Science and Director of LRCCS) and Liangyu Fu (Chinese Studies Librarian, Asia Library). Question about the series? Please email Liangyu Fu at liangyuf@umich.edu.

Free and Open to the Public. Light refreshments will be provided.

Every major Chinese dynasty experienced a localist turn in which the centralizing power of the founding gave way to increasing localism, but all localist turns were not the same. This talk will note the general phenomena and explore an influential localist turn that took place in Wuzhou (Jinhua) in Zhejiang province during the Mongols' Yuan dynasty, the consequences of which have continued into the present. This will also show how prosopographical, spatial, and network analysis can reveal key elements of elite social and cultural change.

Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His research is centered on the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7th to the 17th century. He is the author of "This Culture of Ours": Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China, Neo-Confucianism in History, coauthor of Sung Dynasty Uses of the I-ching, co-editor of Ways with Words, and various journal articles in Chinese, Japanese, and English. He led Harvard’s university-wide effort to establish support for geospatial analysis in teaching and research; in 2005 he was named the first director of the Center for Geographic Analysis. As Vice Provost (2013/09-2018/10) he was responsible for HarvardX, the Harvard Initiative in Learning and Teaching, and research that connects online and residential learning. He also directs the China Historical Geographic Information Systems project, a collaboration between Harvard and Fudan University in Shanghai to create a GIS for 2000 years of Chinese history. In a collaboration between Harvard, Academia Sinica, and Peking University he directs the China Biographical Database project, an online relational database currently of 420,000 historical figures that is being expanded to include all biographical data in China's historical record over the last 2000 years. Together with William Kirby he teaches ChinaX course, one of the HarvardX courses.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 08:08:38 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 21, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-21T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
Language Fair (February 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72306 72306-17972528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:00am
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 guests 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.

The Asian Languages Fair will be held in the Pond Room of the Michigan Union from 10:00am-2:00pm on Friday, February 21. We hope to see you there!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:36:48 -0500 2020-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Asian Languages and Cultures Fair / Festival Language Fair Digital Signage
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 22, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-22T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 23, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-23T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 24, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-24T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 25, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-25T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Language of Emotion: Chinese Translations of the Buddhist Terminology of Sense Perception and Desire in the Han and Three Kingdoms Period (ca. 150-280 CE) (February 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70227 70227-17550032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk is a preliminary investigation into a large set of sources pertaining to the some of the first encounters between Indian Buddhist and native Chinese thought: the Chinese translations of Indian Buddhist literature dating from the Han and Three-Kingdoms period. Often written using a technical vocabulary that was later largely abandoned (and is hence sometimes quite difficult to understand), these texts have rarely been studied systematically by modern scholars interested in Chinese religious or intellectual history. Professor Greene presents some preliminary findings from this corpus concerning the way that the earliest Chinese Buddhist translators tried to render the sophisticated Indian Buddhist vocabulary of sense perception and its relationship to desire. Both the ways that they succeeded and the ways they failed may allow us to see the presuppositions concerning these topics on both sides in this dialog in a new light.

Eric Greene is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Yale, where he has taught since 2016. He received his BA (Mathematics), MA (Asian Studies), and PhD (in Buddhist Studies) from UC Berkeley, and specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism. His research focuses on topics including Buddhist meditation in China, Chinese Buddhist rituals of confession and atonement, the history of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, Buddhist image worship in China, and the history of translation within Chinese Buddhism.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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 Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:01:25 -0500 2020-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Eric Greene, The Language of Emotion: Chinese Translations of the Buddhist Terminology of Sense Perception and Desire in the Han and Three Kingdoms Period (ca. 150-280 CE)
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 26, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-26T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests (February 27, 2020 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72963 72963-18107879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 7:00am
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group

Creative media became a form of passive protest and connected people who shared the same emotions during social unrest in Hong Kong. In this exhibition, we will explore the incredible artworks created in this democratic movement.

Since June, protests have been ongoing in Hong King, sparked by The Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019. In one of the demonstrations, over two million Hongkongers, which is more than a quarter of the population, went on the streets to express their objection to the bill, and later led to a large scale democratic movement. It is important to note, however, that physical protests and demonstrations were not the only methods Hong Kong people used to voice their opinions. Creation of promotional art pieces, music, videos, and memes were sparked by the protests and played a significant role in the democratic movement.

After 2/12, this exhibit will be available for viewing from 2/18 through 2/27 in the Pierpont Commons Piano Lounge.

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Exhibition Sat, 15 Feb 2020 20:37:16 -0500 2020-02-27T07:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T23:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Hong Kong Human Rights Concern Group Exhibition The Role of Creative Media in Hong Kong Protests
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Land of Ghosts: Rediscovering King Hu’s "Legend of the Mountain" (March 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70228 70228-17550033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled.

Best known for his classic martial arts films like "A Touch of Zen" and "Come Drink with Me," King Hu (1932-1997) was one of the true pioneers of the xuxia genre. This presentation will offer a case study of Hu's 1979 film "Legend of the Mountain," which combined element of the wuxia film with other genres, including the ghost stories, comedy, and the travelogue. Drawing on research and first-hand interviews with the film's lead actor Shih Chun, this talk will be divided into two parts: The first section will discuss the curious production details of the film as a pioneering example of a pan-Asian co-production and the film's curious reception, which went from a long-overlooked minor work to be rediscovered as a "masterpiece" decades after its initial release. During the second half of the talk, focus will turn to the film itself and how it was revolutionary both in terms of film form but also its political intervention.

Michael Berry is Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA at UCLA. He is the author of "Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers" (2006), "A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film" (2008), "Jia Zhangke’s Hometown Trilogy" (2009), and "Boiling the Sea: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Memories of Shadows and Light" (2014) and co-editor of "Divided Lenses" (2016) and "Modernism Revisited" (2016). Forthcoming books included “An Accented Cinema: Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke;” and an edited collection on the 1930 Musha Incident in Taiwan. He is currently completing a monograph that explores the United States as it has been imagined through Chinese film, literature, and popular culture, 1949-present.

He has contributed to numerous books and periodicals, including "The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas," "A Companion to Chinese Cinema," "Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema," "Columbia Companion of Modern Chinese Literature," "Harvard New Literary History of Modern China," and "The Chinese Cinema Book." Berry has also served as a film consultant and a juror for numerous film festivals, including the Golden Horse (Taiwan) and the Fresh Wave (Hong Kong). He is also the translator of several novels, including "Wild Kids" (2000), "Nanjing 1937: A Love Story" (2002), "To Live" (2004), "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" (2008) and most recently "Remains of Life" (2017).

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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 Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:45:50 -0500 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture Studies; Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
CANCELLED: Grace Lin Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing (March 12, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69576 69576-17366256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Before Grace Lin was an award-winning and NY Times bestselling author/illustrator of picturebooks, early readers and middle grade novels, she was the only Asian girl (except for her sisters) going to her elementary school in Upstate NY. That experience, good and bad, has influenced her books—including her Newbery Honor WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON, her Geisel Honor LING & TING, her National Book Finalist WHEN THE SEA TURNED TO SILVER and her Caldecott Honor A BIG MOONCAKE FOR LITTLE STAR.

That experience also causes Lin to persevere for diversity: She is an occasional New England Public Radio commentator, she gave a TEDx talk titled “The Windows and Mirrors of Your Child’s Bookshelf,” and she authored a PBSNewHour video essay called "What to do when you realize classic books from your childhood are racist?" She continues this mission with her two podcasts kidlitwomen* and Book Friends Forever. In 2016, Lin’s art was displayed at the White House and Lin was recognized by President Obama’s office as a Champion of Change for Asian American and Pacific Islander Art and Storytelling.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:59:34 -0400 2020-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Grace Lin
CANCELED: Why Asian Studies? (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73200 73200-18157927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Current undergraduate students are invited to an information session on the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures major, minors, and language programs. Students will have the opportunity to speak with an advisor and ask questions specific to them. We will also be speaking about changes to the Asian Studies Major and the Asian Languages and Cultures Minor that are effective Fall 2020.

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) is a center for the exploration of the humanities of Asia, where students are invited to cross the boundaries of nations and of disciplines in order to develop two vital qualities: a deep knowledge and a broad global perspective.

The department offers instruction in the cultures of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, and in many of the languages of Asia (including Bengali, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Thai, Tamil, Urdu, and Vietnamese).

Lunch will be provided.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:55:03 -0400 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other Why Asian Studies?
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Liberalism, Nationalism, and Paths Out of Reforms: A Comparison of Late-Qing China and Germany in the 19th Century (March 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71196 71196-17785610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

What are the conditions under which liberalism as “rational centrist reformism” fails to obtain its goals without succumbing to the forces of radicalization — that is, by descending into revolutionary or reactionary extremes? Professor Ding compares two *extreme *paths out of liberalizing reforms that took place in late-Qing China and 19th-century Germany (Prussia). Despite their under-appreciated similarities, the failure of reforms in Qing and Prussia unfolded in dramatically different ways: popular revolution and regime overthrow in China in 1911, and reactionary victory in Germany in the late 19th century. Why?

Iza Ding is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include environmental politics, Chinese politics, and political regimes. Her book "The Performative State: Public Opinion, Political Pageantry, and Environmental Governance in China" is under contract at Cornell University Press. During the 2019-2020 academic year, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Associate at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, where she is working on a second book manuscript on political memory.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:00:32 -0400 2020-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Iza Ding, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Pittsburgh; WCED Visiting Associate, 2019-2020; U-M Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science, 2019-2020
CANCELLED: Jenny Zhang Reading & Book Signing (March 19, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69578 69578-17366258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Jenny Zhang’s story collection, Sour Heart (Lenny, 2017), centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty line in 1990s New York City. It examines the many ways that family and history can weigh us down and also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother’s role in the Cultural Revolution to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, to the girl discovering the power of her body to inspire and destroy, these seven stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves.

Zhang is also the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find. Her second collection of poetry, My Baby First Birthday, is forthcoming from Tin House. She is the recipient of the Pen/Bingham Award for Debut Fiction and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

This event is free and open to the public. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. UMMA is pleased to be the site for most of these events. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:56:18 -0400 2020-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Jenny Zhang
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Oral history and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet (March 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70286 70286-17564359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

In this talk, Professor Makley thinks through the implications of her collaborative work with Tibetans in northern Amdo (Qinghai province) to tell, hear, see and record stories of the late tenth Panchen Lama (1938-1989), the controversial yet beloved Buddhist figure who returned to Amdo in the early 1980s after fourteen years of Maoist detention in a series of triumphant, recuperative tours of rural Tibetan regions. To this day, the absent presence of the tenth Panchen Lama looms large in those regions, where Tibetans lament the loss of his advocacy and voice amidst intensifying state-led development pressures. She takes up Uradyn Bulag's critique to reject the positivist, textualist, and statist premises of "oral history" in favor of a linguistic anthropological approach to narrative as a multimodal and dialogic process of (dis)embodying selves and others in spaces and times. Professor Makley asks, in the context of intensifying surveillance and central state-led censorship, can our Tibetan interlocutors' awkward silences and earnest affirmations, the un- or under-said of their stories about the tenth Panchen Lama, be taken as a politics of refusal that, in the telling, itself works to re-constitute his fugitive presence, and by proxy that of a Tibetan sociality and future currently being erased?

Charlene Makley is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work has explored the history and cultural politics of state-building, state-led development and Buddhist revival among Tibetans in China's restive frontier zone (SE Qinghai and SW Gansu provinces) since 1992. Her analyses draw especially on methodologies from linguistic and economic anthropology, gender and media studies, and studies of religion and ritual that unpack the semiotic and pragmatic specificities of intersubjective communication, exchange, personhood and value. Her first book, "The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China," was published by University of California Press in 2007. Her second book, "The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood and Power among Tibetans in China," published in 2018 by Cornell University Press and the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University, is an ethnography of state-local relations in the historically Tibetan region of Rebgong (SE Qinghai province) in the wake of China's Great Open the West campaign and during the 2008 military crackdown on Tibetan unrest. The book brings anthropological theories of states, development and personhood into dialogue with recent interdisciplinary debates about the very nature of human subjectivity, agency, and relations with nonhuman others (including deities).

For more information about her research projects, publications, courses, and media archives, visit her website: http://academic.reed.edu/anthro/makley/index.html, or her Academia.edu page: https://reed.academia.edu/CharleneMakley.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:01:02 -0400 2020-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Oral history and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet
CANCELLED - LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Pleasure and Politics (March 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73429 73429-18217179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

This talk will outline the main pleasure theories developed in early and middle-period China, before turning to discuss the institutions that the pleasure theorists decided must be put in place to foster productive and sustaining sociopolitical relations. It will also show that many of those institutions were put in place during the two Han dynasties, and that the theorists adapted the Five Classics and early masterwork to justify a surprising series of innovations (including voting).

Michael Nylan (Ph.D. '83) began her teaching career at Bryn Mawr College, in the History Department, with an affiliation with the Growth and Structure of Cities program and Political Science. There she began to learn political philosophy from Steven Salkever, an Aristotle expert. After more than a decade at Bryn Mawr, where she founded and led the major in East Asian Studies, in 2001 she moved on to the UC-Berkeley History Department, to work with graduate students in the company of one of the oldest and most distinguished of faculties of Chinese history. Now she writes in three main academic disciplines: the history of early China (roughly 300 BC-AD 300), early Chinese philosophy, and the art and archaeology of China. She has an abiding interest in the use and abuse of history in the modern period, as well as in the politics of the common good, the "logics of legitimacy" inscribed in the implied social contracts forged at different times and places between the rulers and ruled at different times and places. She began research on pleasure theory in early China some eighteen years ago, and because no one was writing on the topic at the time, she took her time with the project, to better understand the precise valences of the vocabulary and tropes the Chinese used to communicate their thoughts in a culture alive to pleasure. Her current projects include a reconstruction of a Han-era Documents classic, writing a general-interest study on the "Four Fathers of History," and compiling a study of the politics of the common good in early China.

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Presentation Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:09:48 -0400 2020-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Presentation LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Pleasure and Politics
POSTPONED - Zero Grasses (March 26, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72834 72834-18079391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Center for World Performance Studies hosts groundbreaking vocalist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and dancer Jen Shyu for an artist residency, including a performance of her new multilingual multimedia show Zero Grasses. In this mythical monodrama, Shyu effortlessly weaves together music, monologue and video projection, tracing the threads of her life to explore the painful terrain of expectation, ambition, longing and love. A performance of the piece will take place in the Video Studio at the James and Anne Duderstadt Center on Thursday, March 26 at 7:30pm, and is free and open to the public.

Zero Grasses was commissioned by John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning series and premiered in October 2019 at National Sawdust. It is sung in English, Taiwanese, Tetum of East Timor, Korean, Javanese, and Indonesian. The work features Shyu’s original music as well as some traditional music from these countries, with movement and installation art that carry the essence of these specific vocal and dance traditions. Shyu will accompany her voice with Taiwanese moon lute, gayageum, piano, violin, dance, and electronics.

A central theme of this residency will be Shyu’s work in as a teaching artist, including two community engagement workshop performances during the residency -- an intergenerational potluck, hosted in East Quad, and a workshop for high school students in Ypsilanti, MI. The potluck aims to engage faculty and staff and their families, alongside students from RC Music Programs. Shyu’s community engagement performances are designed around intercultural song exchange, and she is currently doing this work as part of a 50 state tour funded by the Doris Duke Performing Artist Fund and MAP Fund.

Jen Shyu ("Shyu" pronounced "Shoe" in English, Chinese name: 徐秋雁, Pinyin: Xúqiūyàn) is a groundbreaking, multilingual vocalist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, 2019 United States Artists Fellow, 2016 Doris Duke Artist, and was voted 2017 Downbeat Critics Poll Rising Star Female Vocalist. Born in Peoria, Illinois, to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, Shyu is widely regarded for her virtuosic singing and riveting stage presence, carving out her own beyond-category space in the art world. She has performed with or sung the music of such musical innovators as Nicole Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Bobby Previte, Chris Potter, Michael Formanek and David Binney. Shyu has performed her own music on prestigious world stages such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rubin Museum of Art, Ojai Festival, Ringling International Arts Festival, Asia Society, Roulette, Blue Note, Bimhuis, Salihara Theater, National Gugak Center, National Theater of Korea and at festivals worldwide.

A Stanford University graduate in opera with classical violin and ballet training, Shyu had already won many piano competitions and performed the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto (3rd mvmt.) with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra by the age of 13. She speaks 10 languages and has studied traditional music and dance in Cuba, Taiwan, Brazil, China, South Korea, East Timor and Indonesia, conducting extensive research which culminated in her 2014 stage production Solo Rites: Seven Breaths, directed by renowned Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho. Shyu has won commissions and support from NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, MAP Fund, US-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship from Japan-US Friendship Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works, Exploring the Metropolis, New Music USA, Jazz Gallery, and Roulette, as well as fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Asian Cultural Council, Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Korean Ministry of Sports, Culture, and Tourism.

Shyu has produced seven albums as a leader, including the first female-led and vocalist-led album Pi Recordings has released, Synastry (Pi 2011), with co-bandleader and bassist Mark Dresser. Her critically acclaimed Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi 2015) landed on many best-of-2015 lists, including those of The New York Times, The Nation, and NPR. Her latest album Song of Silver Geese (Pi 2017) is receiving rave reviews and was also included on The New York Times’ Best Albums of 2017.

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:46:08 -0400 2020-03-26T19:30:00-04:00 2020-03-26T21:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Center for World Performance Studies Performance Jen Shyu
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Constructing a China: Nationalism and Culture in Modern History (March 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70229 70229-17550034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

During the past three decades, China has witnessed an enormous growth of intellectual interest in defining a Chinese cultural identity. At the center of this trend lies a claim that China’s future ought to be rooted in China’s own cumulative civilization, especially in the Confucian learning traditions. This exceptionalist turn in intellectual culture has provided a new legitimizing ideology that the Chinese Communist Party has quickly adopted to reinvent itself as the inheritor of China’s cultural traditions. Making sense of this contemporary turn requires us to understand the deeper roots of modern Chinese national thought. Different from the dominant view that modern Chinese nationalism is a product of Western-style modernization, this talk explores how the search for a Chinese cultural identity became central to the debates over political system and moral values in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. If “cultural identity” was an answer, what was the question? Were there alternatives?

Wen Yu is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2018. Her research focuses on China’s social and political thought, ideological movements, and intellectual culture from the seventeenth century to the present. Her dissertation, "The Search for a Chinese Way in the Modern World: From the Rise of Evidential Learning to the Birth of Chinese Cultural Identity,” explores the roots and development of modern Chinese exceptionalism by tracing how the search for a Chinese cultural identity has become central to the intellectual debates over shared values in modern China. Her dissertation was awarded the 2017 Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:01:32 -0400 2020-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Wen Yu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Schwarzman Scholars Virtual Visit! (April 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73869 73869-18375542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7790695597344503820

Designed to prepare young leaders to deepen understanding between China and the rest of the world, Schwarzman Scholars is the first scholarship created to respond to the geopolitical landscape of the 21st Century. Whether in politics, business or science, the success of future leaders around the world will depend upon an understanding of China’s role in global trends.

With the inaugural class enrolled in 2016, the program gives the world’s best and brightest students the opportunity to develop their leadership skills and professional networks through a one-year Master’s Degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing – one of China’s most prestigious universities. Students pursue a Masters in Global Affairs, working with an academic advisor to design an academic plan that best suits his or her academic and professional goals.

Students spend a year immersed in an international community of thinkers, innovators and senior leaders in business, politics and society. In an environment of intellectual engagement, professional development and cultural exchange, they learn from one another and pursue their academic disciplines while building their leadership capacities.

This experience will expand students’ understanding of the world and create a growing network of global leaders that will build strong ties between China and the rest of the world.

For those ready to make their mark on the world, Schwarzman Scholars represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Learn more by attending our online information session!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:55:03 -0400 2020-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual Schwarzman Scholars
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Dui yang 對揚, or ‘Responsive Exaltation:’ Performative Dimensions of Court Speech and Civil Examinations in the Early Tang (April 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71464 71464-17827816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

The phrase dui yang 對揚 (roughly, “responsively exalt”) is a ubiquitous formula in Zhou bronze inscriptions, evoking a symbiotic interaction between virtuous minister and sage ruler whereby ritually or verbally efficacious response from the former enhances the might and reputation of the latter. The medieval empires of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and Tang, a millennium and a half or so later, were naturally utterly different in nature, structure, and complexity from the old Bronze-age kingdoms recorded and mythologized in the classics, but they nonetheless operated under a sort of contractual obligation to represent their own functioning as a continuation or restoration of those mythic sagely kingdoms. This talk, centering on medieval traditions of court speech and related aspects of examination and educational culture, explores the processes of historical “translation” through which medieval rulers and their ministers strove to carry on this responsive and exaltative function as they understood it.

Robert Ashmore is Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. His main research interests lie in the literary and scholarly traditions of early medieval to Tang and Song China, with particular focus on questions of music and performance, hermeneutical thought, and commentarial practice.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:02:05 -0400 2020-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Robert Ashmore, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures University of California, Berkeley
CANCELLED - LRCCS and Asia Library Deep Dive Lecture | Historical Networks in Chinese Buddhism: The Role of the Daoan, Huiyuan and Kumārajīva Triangle (April 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73565 73565-18261075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Free and Open to the Public. Light refreshments will be provided.

Using a large SNA dataset for Chinese Buddhist history (c.17,000 actors) we will focus on the fountainhead of Chinese Buddhism - a constellation formed by three seminal figures: the monk Daoan, his student Huiyuan, and the Indian translator Kumārajīva. In the time between c.360 and 420 CE, each was at the center of an active community of collaborators and patrons. According to the available records, historical network analysis illustrates how the stable growth of Buddhism after the 4th century is a direct result of the activities of Daoan, Huiyuan and Kumārajīva and their students. Without the varied and influential activities of these three, Buddhism might have remained a religion of foreigners (like later Manichaeism and Nestorianism), or stayed a fad among aristocrats (like the xuanxue movement). I will also argue that the impact of the constellation should be considered a main reason for why Chinese Buddhism has always defined itself as Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Marcus Bingenheimer is Associate Professor in Religion at Temple University. His main research interests are the history of Buddhism in East Asia and early Buddhist sutra literature. Beyond Buddhist Studies, Marcus is interested in computational approaches to scholarship and how to do research in an age of digital information.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 08:56:00 -0400 2020-04-09T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Marcus Bingenheimer, Associate Professor in Religion, Temple University
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Paying for China’s Urbanization: Land Finance and Its Impact (April 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70230 70230-17550035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

At the center of China’s rapid urbanization is land: land leasing provides both current revenue and collateral for future revenue streams. The so-called land finance has paid for massive infrastructure development in particular. This presentation will discuss a confluence of factors underlying land finance and its impact on the production of China’s contemporary cityscape.

Weiping Wu is a Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Director of the MS Urban Planning program at Columbia University in New York City. She also is on the faculty of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Columbia Population Research Center. Her research and teaching have focused on understanding urban dynamics in developing countries in general and China in particular. She is an internationally acclaimed urban and planning scholar working on global urbanization with a specific expertise in issues of migration, housing, and infrastructure of Chinese cities. Among her many publications are books "The Sage Handbook on Contemporary China" (2018), "The Chinese City" (2012)," Local Dynamics in a Globalizing World" (2000), "Pioneering Economic Reform in China’s Special Economic Zones" (1999), and "The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities" (1997).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:02:32 -0400 2020-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion LRCCS Noon Lecture Series * Event Title (e.g., Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?): Paying for China’s Urbanization: Land Finance and Its Impact
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Publics, Scientists, and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy (April 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70269 70269-17556193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

This talk examines the unfolding controversy surrounding human genome editing in and across China’s national public sphere and national sphere of experts, the transnational public sphere, and the transnational sphere of experts between 2015 and 2019.

Ya-Wen Lei is an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard University. She is the author of "The Contentious Public Sphere" (Princeton University Press, 2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:03:23 -0400 2020-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
China’s Global Ambitions and Its Domestic Challenges (April 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74389 74389-18682275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture is free and available to the public. OLLI membership is not required.

This presentation will examine China’s global ambitions as related to trade and investment, Belt and Road, and national security in the context of broad domestic challenges, such as environmental degradation, slowing growth, and rising expectations from the burgeoning middle class.

The speaker, Professor Mary E. Gallagher, relates China’s global aspirations to the regime’s desire to manage these domestic problems.

Professor Mary E. Gallagher is the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights Professor at the University of Michigan where she is also the director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese
Studies.

Professor Gallagher received her Ph.D. in politics in 2001 from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College in 1991. Her most recent book is Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers and the State (Cambridge University Press 2017). She is also the author or editor of several other books.

Please click the link below to join Prof. Gallagher’s webinar:
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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Apr 2020 11:14:14 -0400 2020-04-30T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-30T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
LRCCS Webinar China's Proposed National Security Law and Hong Kong - What's Happening Now? (June 9, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74860 74860-19024126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Where: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95731288262

The Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies brings together a panel discussion on the ongoing legal crisis in Hong Kong, stemming from the recent Decision by China's Central People's Government to draft and impose a national security law. Experts will discuss the recent Decision and provide context about the Basic Law of Hong Kong, and analyze the implications of the Decision on political movements in Hong Kong, and the effects on the lives of the people of Hong Kong. Featuring Sharon Hom, Nicholas Howson, Louisa Lim and Martin Flaherty, with opening remarks from incoming LRCCS Director Twila Tardif.

The webinar will feature each of the panelists individually, followed by a combined conversation between the panelists, and ending with Q&A from the audience. Audience members can submit written questions using the Q&A feature during the webinar.

This webinar is free and open to the public, use the links provided here to join the webinar next Tuesday, June 9, 5pm Eastern time (US and Canada).

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Jun 2020 08:46:12 -0400 2020-06-09T17:00:00-04:00 2020-06-09T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Image: Reuters/Tyrone Siu
The MIRS Advantage: Masters in International and Regional Studies (June 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74975 74975-19118432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required at http://myumi.ch/v2jDR.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:49:44 -0400 2020-06-29T13:00:00-04:00 2020-06-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS Info Session
The MIRS Advantage: Masters in International and Regional Studies (July 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74975 74975-19118433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required at http://myumi.ch/v2jDR.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:49:44 -0400 2020-07-28T13:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS Info Session
Special Arts Webinar | Studio Visit and Conversation with Artist Xu Weixin (July 29, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75245 75245-19353891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note that the webinar will be held through Zoom Video Conferencing*

Register HERE: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bChPWY4vQMqsKNwlf9tZEw

Panelists: Lihong Liu (Assistant Professor, History of Art, University of Michigan) Angie Baecker (Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Hong Kong)

Moderator: Natsu Oyobe (Curator of Asian Art, Museum of Art, University of Michigan)

Translator: Yihui Sheng (Ph.D. Candidate, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan)

Based in Beijing and New York, artist Xu Weixin is known for his stunning, large-size portraits of Chinese people who lived during the Cultural Revolution. In 2016, the series and portraits of contemporary miners were presented with great acclaim at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. In this webinar, he will invite us into his studio in New York, and talk about his paintings in progress, some of which are directly concerned with the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand a larger context, we will invite two panelists to talk about Xu Weixin’s work in relation to Chinese contemporary society and artistic practice, followed by conversations with the artist. This webinar will illuminate art and artists’ roles during the global health crisis and the rise of anti-Chinese and anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S.

Attendants will be able to submit questions during the Q&A period following the discussion.

* Zoom webinar. Jul 29, 2020 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bChPWY4vQMqsKNwlf9tZEw

Or an H.323/SIP room system:
H.323:
162.255.37.11 (US West)
162.255.36.11 (US East)
115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai)
115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad)
213.19.144.110 (EMEA)
103.122.166.55 (Australia)
209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR)
64.211.144.160 (Brazil)
69.174.57.160 (Canada)
207.226.132.110 (Japan)
Meeting ID: 934 2606 4014
SIP: 93426064014@zoomcrc.com

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Co-sponsored by the University of MIchigan Museum of Art and the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 21 Jul 2020 12:19:38 -0400 2020-07-29T18:00:00-04:00 2020-07-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Installation views, Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Identifying Emergency Funds and How to Advocate for Making Room in Your Financial Aid Package (September 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75507 75507-19513173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Advance registration is required; look for the Zoom link at the bottom of your confirmation email after registering.

This session will provide information about how you can seek emergency funds should you experience an emergency situation or one-time, unusual, unforeseen expense while in school. Information about the types of situations that qualify for emergency funds and where to seek funding will be covered during this presentation.

RSVP HERE: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/identifying-emergency-funds-and-how-to-advocate-for-making-room-in-your-financial-aid-package

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:02:34 -0400 2020-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual A jar of spilled change
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "From Virtuosity to Vernacularism: Reversals of Glass Paintings" (September 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76121 76121-19663557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar.

This study examines the transformation of reverse glass painting from an art of virtuosity to a vernacular form of art from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century during Sino-European encounter. The vernacularization of reverse glass painting, Dr. Liu shall argue, reflected a consumption-driven reinvention of certain literary scenes or popular drama that highlighted the common value of plate glass as a diaphanous spectatorial plane. By examining the interrelationship among technique, medium, and genre, this talk reassesses the material agency and medial effect of clear plate glass which was used to support and spark the theatrical views.

Lihong Liu is Sally Michelson Davidson Assistant Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. Dr. Liu specializes in Chinese art history of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Her research focuses on time, matter, space, and motion in art, especially with regard to art’s environmental engagement. Liu earned her PhD in the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, she taught at the University of Rochester.

Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mDik8MGCR1SxkXz3F_8hBw

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:52:14 -0400 2020-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Lihong Liu, Sally Michelson Davidson Assistant Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Cold War Counterpublics and the Ghosts of Pan-Asianism: The Japanese Matsuyama Ballet’s 1958 White-Haired Girl Tour in China" (September 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76122 76122-19663558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar.

In 1958, the Matsuyama Ballet of Japan toured the first ever ballet adaptation of the classic Chinese land reform opera "The White-Haired Girl" in China. Examining Chinese-language sources such as newspaper and magazine reviews and rare original programs held in the University of Michigan Asia Library's Chinese Dance Collection, Professor Wilcox reconstructs the circulation and reception of this work in China, arguing that the production represented an attempt to create a leftist Sino-Japanese counter-public at a time of Cold War tensions between the two countries. She suggests that the Japanese ballet dancers' cross-ethnic performances of Chinese characters critically reconfigured pre-1945 Japanese imperialist discourses of pan-Asianism, leading them to be interpreted as acts of inter-ethnic solidarity in the context of 1950s Asian internationalism.

Emily Wilcox is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She is the author of "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy" (University of California Press, 2019, winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize from the Dance Studies Association) and co-editor of "Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia" (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Her articles, in English and Chinese, have appeared in "China Perspectives," "Inter-Asia Cultural Studies," "The Journal of Asian Studies," positions: asia critique, "TDR: The Drama Review," "Asian Theatre Journal," "The Journal of the Beijing Dance Academy," "Dance Review," and other venues.

Registration required. Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hXiihGy0Qj2Qh8dYZeJ10g

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:12:00 -0400 2020-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Cold War Counterpublics and the Ghosts of Pan-Asianism: The Japanese Matsuyama Ballet’s 1958 White-Haired Girl Tour in China"
CHOP Film: "Long Time No See, Wuhan" (September 30, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77708 77708-19907676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note that the webinar will be held through Zoom Video Conferencing*

61 minutes; narration in Japanese with conversations in Mandarin; Chinese and English subtitles. Directed by Takeuchi Ryo, a Japanese filmmaker living in China. The film follows the stories of ten families in Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first detected, as residents process their experiences of the outbreak during and after the COVID-19 lockdown.

The event will be followed with Q&A and moderated by LRCCS Director and Professor of Psychology, Twila Tardif.

See the LRCSS website for more pandemic-related webinars: U.S.-China Covid 19 Crisis Briefs and The Covid Impact on Chinese Studies Students.

Register Here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MquGLy7XTCWAV0kA8cNQvw

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) is a movie/discussion series which provides selected documentary films that view greater China through the lens of everyday life as well as overseas Chinese, immigrants and travellers' experiences--those slices of reality touching on transitional/ transcultural events and memories.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:24:31 -0400 2020-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual CHOP Film: "Long Time No See, Wuhan"
International Institute Webinar. The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International and Regional Studies (October 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77308 77308-19838055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

*This event will be held on the first Monday of October, November, and December*
10/5, 11/2, 12/7 from 11 AM EST to 12 PM

RSVP required to attend: http://myumi.ch/v2jDR

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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*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. Contact mirs-info@umich.edu*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-10-05T11:00:00-04:00 2020-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS_webinar-banner
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: The Great Separation: "How the Cultural Revolution Has Shaped Contemporary China and Its Relationship to Global Capitalism" (October 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76154 76154-19669624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Cultural Revolution is the dividing line in modern Chinese history and separates its century of revolutions, when China was known for mass mobilization to generate social change, and the Reform Era, which is deeply depoliticized and economically driven. This talk delves into the interplay of socialist politics and socialist economy in the heydays of the Cultural Revolution to offer a new interpretation of the political origins of contemporary China and its paradoxical role in global capitalism.

Xiaohong Xu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at U-M and a faculty associate of LRCCS and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracy. He received his PhD from Yale and has taught in Singapore and Hong Kong before joining U-M. He is currently writing a book to unpack the Cultural Revolution both as a paradigmatic case of modern Jacobin politics and as a pivotal event that has shaped China today and its position in global capitalism. He has researched and published on patterns of contention in revolutionary China as well as state formation in early modern Europe. He is also beginning a new project on tech innovation and class formation in contemporary China.

Registration required. Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oiotRz6ERiC1zkzpNNKZtw

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:12:47 -0400 2020-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Xiaohong Xu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Yenching Academy (October 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75325 75325-19440268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

The Yenching Academy provides full tuition plus a generous stipend to cover travel and living expenses for a 2-year Masters program in China Studies at Peking University in Beijing. The first year curriculum offers an intensive program of interdisciplinary classroom and field study of Chinese history and culture, as well as real-time issues in China’s development. The second year provides a living stipend to complete a thesis, an internship and other immersive experiences.

Register: https://myumi.ch/bvnN2

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/global/yenching-academy.html

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:55:13 -0400 2020-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual YCA Logo
Special Arts Webinar | Studio Visit and Conversation with Artist Wang Qingsong (October 7, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76726 76726-19741012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Introductions: Carol Stepanchuk--Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan; Natsu Oyobe--Curator of Asian Art, Museum of Art, University of Michigan

Translator: Banyi Huang, Columbia University

Wang Qingsong is a contemporary Chinese artist whose large-format photographs address the rapidly changing society of China.
Although he was trained as a painter, Wang began taking photographs in the 1990s as a way to better document the tension of cultural shifts and global change.
In 2018, community participants from Metro Detroit and Ann Arbor were brought together in Wang's collaborative art installation on land reform presented as an exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. In this webinar, we are invited to take a tour of Wang's latest exhibition, "On the Field of Hope," at Tang Contemporary, Beijing, followed by an insider's visit to his Beijing studio. Noted art journalist Barbara Pollack together with China correspondent & China Institute's vice president of programming, Dorinda Elliott, will provide a multi-faceted view of China today and the contemporary visual arts scene.

Registration is required. Please register for the Zoom seminar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XMq9X-i0RRCdr5IUM7GQSQ

Attendees will be able to submit written questions through Zoom during the session which will be answered at the Q&A period following the presentation.

Co-sponsored by China Institute, New York; U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; and University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:32:41 -0400 2020-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Image: Installation views, Wang Qingsong: On the Field of Hope
Special Arts Webinar: Studio Visit and Conversation with Artist Wang Qingsong (October 7, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78180 78180-19989042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Please register for the Zoom seminar here.: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XMq9X-i0RRCdr5IUM7GQSQ.

Moderator: Dorinda Elliott--Senior Vice President for Programming, China Institute

Guest Panelist: Barbara Pollack--Journalist and Art Critic, co-founder and co-director of Art at a Time Like This Inc.  

Introductions: Carol Stepanchuk--Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan; Natsu Oyobe--Curator of Asian Art, Museum of Art, University of Michigan

Translator: Banyi Huang, Columbia University

Wang Qingsong is a contemporary Chinese artist whose large-format photographs address the rapidly changing society of China. Although he was trained as a painter, Wang began taking photographs in the 1990s as a way to better document the tension of cultural shifts and global change.

In 2018, community participants from Metro Detroit and Ann Arbor were brought together in Wang's collaborative art installation on land reform, presented in the exhibition Wang Qinsong / Detroit / Beijing at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. In this webinar, we are invited to take a tour of Wang's latest exhibition, "On the Field of Hope," at Tang Contemporary, Beijing, followed by an insider's visit to his Beijing studio. The featured guest panelist, Barbara Pollack, has written extensively on contemporary Chinese art for such publications as Artnews, Art & Auction, the Village Voice, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times.  Her latest book is Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.  She will be joined by China correspondent & China Institute's vice president of programming, Dorinda Elliott, to provide a multi-faceted view of China today and the contemporary visual arts scene.

Co-sponsored by China Institute, New York; U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; and University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

Attendees will be able to submit written questions through Zoom during the session which will be answered at the Q&A period following the presentation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:16:01 -0400 2020-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
ALC Preview Event (Virtual) (October 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74919 74919-19079190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

*Due to COVID-19, all events will be held virtually.

The University of Michigan Asian Studies Ph.D. program invites juniors, seniors, recently graduated, or Master's students to participate in a series of virtual events to learn about our graduate program. We are eager to recruit students who will contribute to our department's mission of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in Asian Studies.
This event is a department funded opportunity to explore graduate education at the University of Michigan. Invited participants will take part in an admissions workshop, get acquainted with area studies resources such as the U-M Asia Library and International Institute, meet with world-renowned U-M faculty and current graduate students, and learn about fellowships and other resources offered by the Rackham Graduate School. During preview weekend, students will learn about:

the admissions process
fully-funded graduate programs
developing a research project
advanced language training
selecting a faculty advisor
what graduate school is like and how it all works

*Eligibility*

Please apply if you are a US citizen, permanent resident, or a DACA recipient. To qualify for this program, you must also meet one or more of the following criteria: 1) come from an educational, cultural, or geographic background that is underrepresented in graduate study in Asian studies; 2) have demonstrated a sustained commitment to diversity in the academic, professional, or civic realm, specifically efforts in the U.S to reduce social, educational, or economic disparities based on race, ethnicity, or gender, or to improve race relations in the U.S.; 3) have experienced financial hardship as a result of family economic circumstances; 4) are a first generation U.S. citizen or are the first generation in your family to graduate from a four-year college or university.
If you are interested in exploring the graduate program in Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, but do not meet the eligibility criteria to participate in Fall Preview Weekend, please reach out to us at alc-gradservices@umich.edu! We would be happy to answer your questions regarding the application process and academic life in the department.



Questions? Contact alc-gradservices@umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:23:08 -0400 2020-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Preview Weekend - October 8-9 2020
CGIS Virtual Study Abroad Fair (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77893 77893-19943564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Study abroad is not just for juniors. It's not just for language and international studies majors. It's not just for students from certain communities or socioeconomic backgrounds. No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’re studying, a study abroad experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.

Whether you want to develop the skills you’ll need to compete in a global economy, cultivate your language competencies, or build meaningful connections with people from around the world, this is the best time in your life for a global experience.

Studying abroad often proves to be a pivotal experience, but deciding which program is the best fit can be daunting as you consider questions such as: How will this enhance my course of study? When should I go? For how long? Where? Can I afford it? How do I prepare? Will my credits transfer? The CGIS Study Abroad Virtual Fair is the best time to get all of your questions answered!

During the day of the virtual fair, you'll have instant access to academic advisors, education abroad advisors, Office of Financial Aid & LSA Scholarship Office representatives, and program representatives as well as scheduled events throughout the fair!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:20:17 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Image300
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Civic Solidarity: Sustaining Contention and Building Democratic Institutions in Contemporary Village China" (October 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76155 76155-19669625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar.

Civic solidarity is an underexplored concept in sociology and political science. This talk unpacks its theoretical dimensions—what civic solidarity is, how it is formed, and what the social and political implications are. Through this lens, Dr. Liu examines a puzzling phenomenon in contemporary rural China: Why are some villagers able to sustain contention and engage in building democratic institutions for self-rule?

Jundai Liu is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in sociology from Harvard University in 2018. With comparative-historical and qualitative methods, her research lies broadly in political sociology, sociology of development, and historical sociology, with a focus on China and East Asia. Her current book project examines different patterns of villagers’ political behavior where there were major stakes and conflicts brought about by active land development in China.

Registration required. Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nb2ggIo4SsWPUQ8xPcDbNg

Cosponsored by the U-M Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:15:23 -0400 2020-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jundai Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan
LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Oral History and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet (October 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78422 78422-20042427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note: This live webinar presentation will be recorded and re-aired in the Oct. 20th LRCCS Noon Lecture Series.

In this talk, Professor Makley thinks through the implications of her collaborative work with Tibetans in northern Amdo (Qinghai province) to tell, hear, see and record stories of the late tenth Panchen Lama (1938-1989), the controversial yet beloved Buddhist figure who returned to Amdo in the early 1980s after fourteen years of Maoist detention in a series of triumphant, recuperative tours of rural Tibetan regions. To this day, the absent presence of the tenth Panchen Lama looms large in those regions, where Tibetans lament the loss of his advocacy and voice amidst intensifying state-led development pressures. She takes up Uradyn Bulag's critique to reject the positivist, textualist, and statist premises of "oral history" in favor of a linguistic anthropological approach to narrative as a multimodal and dialogic process of (dis)embodying selves and others in spaces and times. Professor Makley asks, in the context of intensifying surveillance and central state-led censorship, can our Tibetan interlocutors' awkward silences and earnest affirmations, the un- or under-said of their stories about the tenth Panchen Lama, be taken as a politics of refusal that, in the telling, itself works to re-constitute his fugitive presence, and by proxy that of a Tibetan sociality and future currently being erased?

Charlene Makley is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work has explored the history and cultural politics of state-building, state-led development and Buddhist revival among Tibetans in China's restive frontier zone (SE Qinghai and SW Gansu provinces) since 1992. Her analyses draw especially on methodologies from linguistic and economic anthropology, gender and media studies, and studies of religion and ritual that unpack the semiotic and pragmatic specificities of intersubjective communication, exchange, personhood and value. Her first book, "The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China," was published by University of Californian Press in 2007. Her second book, "The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood and Power among Tibetans in China," published in 2018 by Cornell University Press and the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University, is an ethnography of state-local relations in the historically Tibetan region of Rebgong (SE Qinghai province) in the wake of China's Great Open the West campaign and during the 2008 military crackdown on Tibetan unrest. The book brings anthropological theories of states, development and personhood into dialogue with recent interdisciplinary debates about the very nature of human subjectivity, agency, and relations with nonhuman others (including deities).

Zoom webinar registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wxxn3CL2QUCltYYupoSFKw

For more information about her research projects, publications, courses, and media archives, visit her website: http://academic.reed.edu/anthro/makley/index.html or her Academia.edu page: https://reed.academia.edu/CharleneMakley.

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, 12 Oct 2020 07:40:23 -0400 2020-10-16T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Oral History and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Oral History and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet" (October 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76159 76159-19669629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk is a pre-recorded presentation from Oct. 16, 2020.

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. See the webinar registration link below.

In this talk, Professor Makley thinks through the implications of her collaborative work with Tibetans in northern Amdo (Qinghai province) to tell, hear, see and record stories of the late tenth Panchen Lama (1938-1989), the controversial yet beloved Buddhist figure who returned to Amdo in the early 1980s after fourteen years of Maoist detention in a series of triumphant, recuperative tours of rural Tibetan regions. To this day, the absent presence of the tenth Panchen Lama looms large in those regions, where Tibetans lament the loss of his advocacy and voice amidst intensifying state-led development pressures. She takes up Uradyn Bulag's critique to reject the positivist, textualist, and statist premises of "oral history" in favor of a linguistic anthropological approach to narrative as a multimodal and dialogic process of (dis)embodying selves and others in spaces and times. Professor Makley asks, in the context of intensifying surveillance and central state-led censorship, can our Tibetan interlocutors' awkward silences and earnest affirmations, the un- or under-said of their stories about the tenth Panchen Lama, be taken as a politics of refusal that, in the telling, itself works to re-constitute his fugitive presence, and by proxy that of a Tibetan sociality and future currently being erased?

Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a6dgE3GhRcqeCnlegYA7kA

Charlene Makley is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work has explored the history and cultural politics of state-building, state-led development and Buddhist revival among Tibetans in China's restive frontier zone (SE Qinghai and SW Gansu provinces) since 1992. Her analyses draw especially on methodologies from linguistic and economic anthropology, gender and media studies, and studies of religion and ritual that unpack the semiotic and pragmatic specificities of intersubjective communication, exchange, personhood and value. Her first book, "The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China," was published by University of Californian Press in 2007. Her second book, "The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood and Power among Tibetans in China," published in 2018 by Cornell University Press and the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University, is an ethnography of state-local relations in the historically Tibetan region of Rebgong (SE Qinghai province) in the wake of China's Great Open the West campaign and during the 2008 military crackdown on Tibetan unrest. The book brings anthropological theories of states, development and personhood into dialogue with recent interdisciplinary debates about the very nature of human subjectivity, agency, and relations with nonhuman others (including deities).

For more information about her research projects, publications, courses, and media archives, visit her website: http://academic.reed.edu/anthro/makley/index.html, or her Academia.edu page: https://reed.academia.edu/CharleneMakley.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:53:44 -0400 2020-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Oral History and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet"
WCED Panel. Flashpoint: Hong Kong (October 20, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78387 78387-20020765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Panelists: Nicholas Howson, Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law, U-M; Mary Gallagher, Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights, Director of the International Institute, U-M; Xiaohong Xu, assistant professor of sociology, U-M; Samson Yuen, assistant professor of government and international studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. Moderator: Jundai Liu, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow.

When handed over from British to Chinese rule in 1997, Hong Kong’s special autonomous status was guaranteed by the principle of “one country, two systems” for fifty years. Since then, this status has been eroded. From the Umbrella Movement in 2014 to large-scale protests against the “Extradition Bill” and the “National Security Law ” in 2019 and 2020, Hong Kong has become an epicenter of contentions. In light of these events, the experts of this panel will share their observations and insights on the judicial, political, and social developments in Hong Kong.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/mnbv3.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@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 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:22:58 -0400 2020-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Flashpoint: Hong Kong
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Monumental Friendship: Chinese Ceramics in the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art" (October 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76156 76156-19669626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar.

The James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art is consisted of Chinese ceramics, bronze wares, Buddhist sculptures, and other East Asian art works donated by his family and friends in memory of the prominent U-M professor of East Asian art, James Marshall Plumer (1899 – 1960). The collection shows an incredible network of scholars, collectors, and artists Plumer developed between 1930 and 1960, through his research of Jian (Tenmoku) and Yue wares, experience as a “Monument Man” in the occupied Japan of the post-World War II, and teaching at U-M. In this talk, Dr. Oyobe will highlight the Chinese ceramics in the Plumer Collection, and illuminate his remarkable scholarship and humanism that connected the people of diverse backgrounds from China, Japan, and the US.

Natsu Oyobe is Curator of Asian Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Specializing in modern and contemporary Japanese art, she has curated numerous Japanese art exhibitions, including "Wrapped in Silk and Gold: A Family Legacy of 20th-Century Japanese Kimono" (2010), "Turning Point: Japanese Studio Ceramics in the Mid-20th Century" (2010), and "Mari Katayama" (2019). Dr. Oyobe is also involved in cross-cultural projects from a variety of historical periods, including "Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930" (2013), "Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits" (2016) and "Copies and Invention in East Asia" (2019). She served as the consulting curator for the Detroit Institute of Arts’ new Japan Gallery (2016 – 2017). Dr. Oyobe earned a PhD in art history from the University of Michigan in 2005.

Zoom webinar registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_11CuKg4aQHCcuPZ7P3FXwA

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:22:39 -0400 2020-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Monumental Friendship: Chinese Ceramics in the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (October 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78958 78958-20162586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

lick here to register. .

Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art for the University of Michigan Museum of Art, will bring to life the incredible James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection of Chinese ceramics in this talk for the Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Noon Lecture Series. The collection, consisting of bronze wares, Buddhist sculptures, and other East Asian art works, was donated by Plumer's family and friends in memory of the prominent U-M professor of East Asian art. Plumer (1899 – 1960), who served as a “Monument Man” in the occupied Japan of the post-World War II, developed a phenomenal network of scholars, collectors, and artists, and is known for his research of Jian (Tenmoku) and Yue wares and for his teaching at U-M.  In this talk, Dr. Oyobe will highlight the Chinese ceramics in the Plumer Collection, and illuminate his remarkable scholarship and humanism that connected the people of diverse backgrounds from China, Japan, and the US. 

Natsu Oyobe is Curator of Asian Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Specializing in modern and contemporary Japanese art, she has curated numerous Japanese art exhibitions, including Wrapped in Silk and Gold: A Family Legacy of 20th-Century Japanese Kimono (2010), Turning Point: Japanese Studio Ceramics in the Mid-20th Century (2010), and Mari Katayama (2019). Dr. Oyobe is also involved in cross-cultural projects from a variety of historical periods, including Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930 (2013), Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits (2016) and Copies and Invention in East Asia (2019). She served as the consulting curator for the Detroit Institute of Arts’ new Japan Gallery (2016 – 2017). Dr. Oyobe earned a PhD in art history from the University of Michigan in 2005.

This event is cosponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.
 

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:15:50 -0400 2020-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
International Institute Webinar. The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International and Regional Studies (November 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77308 77308-19838056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

*This event will be held on the first Monday of October, November, and December*
10/5, 11/2, 12/7 from 11 AM EST to 12 PM

RSVP required to attend: http://myumi.ch/v2jDR

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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*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. Contact mirs-info@umich.edu*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-11-02T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS_webinar-banner
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "The City in the Present Tense: Writing the Urban Landscape in Eleventh-Century China" (November 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76229 76229-19677560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

During the eleventh century, literati tried for the first time to capture the living urban landscape in writing. As a new literary subject, the urban streetscape afforded scope for original effects, but literati also wrote the city for ideological reasons. On the written page, they could set themselves apart—as individuals in the anonymous crowd, as connoisseurs among spendthrift nobles—as they could not in the streets and markets of the dense metropolis, and they could conform the confusing movement of people, goods, and money to a moral economy of perfect circulation and equitable distribution, as they could not in practical administration.

Christian de Pee is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries" (2007) and co-editor of "Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and the Southern Song, 1127-1279" (2017). He is currently writing a history of eleventh-century China for a general audience, "The Chinese Renaissance: How the Song Dynasty Changed China and the World in the Eleventh Century."

Zoom webinar registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qxUG36ZlQwiehkKBTK0Rtw

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:50:35 -0500 2020-11-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Christian de Pee, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
MEMS Faculty Showcase: East Asia Series 2 (November 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77843 77843-19933641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

How Milk Became "Ethnic" in China: Koumiss Rituals of the Qing and Its Contemporary Legacies

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:51:42 -0400 2020-11-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Koumiss-fermented mare's milk
Yenching Academy Scholars Program (November 5, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78797 78797-20123206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

We are excited to host Brent Haas, Director of Admissions, for this in-depth look at the Yenching Academy Scholars Program!

REGISTER: https://myumi.ch/bvnN2

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The Yenching Academy provides full-tuition plus a generous stipend to cover travel and living expenses for a 2-year Masters program in China Studies at Peking University in Beijing. The first-year curriculum offers an intensive program of interdisciplinary classroom and field study of Chinese history and culture, as well as real-time issues in China’s development. The second-year provides a living stipend to complete a thesis, an internship, and other immersive experiences.

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/global/yenching-academy.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:10:47 -0400 2020-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual Yenching Academy Scholars Program
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "The Gendered Pursuit of Individualism: Fertility Intention and the Meaning of Children in Contemporary Urban China" (November 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76165 76165-19671598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

Reproduction links the personal and the political. Through policies that promote or limit births, the state attempts to regulate individuals’ reproductive behavior. At the same time, individuals make reproductive decisions guided by their own fertility intentions and the meaning they attach to children and parenthood. A puzzle remains: Why does active pro-natalist state policy fail to achieve fertility recovery? This talk centers on urban Chinese individuals’ fertility decision-making under the 2016 universal two-child policy. By examining the meaning of children, Dr. Zhou highlights how a gendered pursuit of individualism underlies women’s and men’s fertility aspiration and behavior. In turn, she sheds light on the question of why state policies promoting births may not resonate on the individual level.

Yun Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research examines social inequality and state-market-family relations through the lens of gender, marriage, and reproduction. Her work combines statistical analysis of survey data, in-depth interviews, and agent-based computational models. With a focus on gender equity and authoritarian reproductive governance, Dr. Zhou’s current project investigates the intended and unintended consequences of China’s recent shift toward a universal two-child policy.

Zoom webinar registration (required) is here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iRfY-cuAQ1-a7rzonTaPDQ

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:52:04 -0500 2020-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yun Zhou, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
CHINA Town Hall | Local Connections, National Reflections: A Nationwide Discussion on China (November 10, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79234 79234-20233429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Join us as we partner with the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York for an enlightening evening of presentations and discussions on contemporary China. The first webinar presentation will be a keynote address by renown investor and New York Times best selling author Ray Dalio at 7:00pm EST. His presentation will be followed by an 8:00pm webinar discussion hosted by the U-M China Center, featuring a panel of U-M faculty including Alan Deardorff, Public Policy; Lan Deng, Urban Planning; and Ann Lin, Public Policy. Twila Tardif, Director of the U-M China Center will serve as moderator.

Links to register for both events can be found below. Free and open to the public.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Keynote Address: Ray Dalio
7:00pm-8:00pm EST
The National Committee on US-China Relations presents Raymond Dalio, founder, co-chief investment officer, and co-chairman, Bridgewater Associates, LP.
Moderator: Stephen Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Information and Registration for Ray Dalio: https://www.ncuscr.org/event/CTH-2020-ray-dalio
To register for their other presentations: https://www.ncuscr.org/events

LRCCS Panel Discussion:
Changing Times in US-China Relations: Panel Discussion and Community Conversation
8:00pm-9:00pm EST
The U-M China Center presents U-M faculty Alan Deardorff, Public Policy; Lan Deng, Urban Planning; and Ann Lin, Public Policy for discussion and questions from the audience. Twila Tardif, LRCCS Director, will moderate. Please submit any questions for them through the Zoom Q&A function.

Register for the Panel: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MHd2I63oQZ69o38H-ODKCA

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:33:04 -0500 2020-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual CHINA Town Hall | Local Connections, National Reflections: A Nationwide Discussion on China
CHINA Town Hall | Local Connections, National Reflections: A Nationwide Discussion on China (November 10, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79234 79234-20233430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Join us as we partner with the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York for an enlightening evening of presentations and discussions on contemporary China. The first webinar presentation will be a keynote address by renown investor and New York Times best selling author Ray Dalio at 7:00pm EST. His presentation will be followed by an 8:00pm webinar discussion hosted by the U-M China Center, featuring a panel of U-M faculty including Alan Deardorff, Public Policy; Lan Deng, Urban Planning; and Ann Lin, Public Policy. Twila Tardif, Director of the U-M China Center will serve as moderator.

Links to register for both events can be found below. Free and open to the public.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Keynote Address: Ray Dalio
7:00pm-8:00pm EST
The National Committee on US-China Relations presents Raymond Dalio, founder, co-chief investment officer, and co-chairman, Bridgewater Associates, LP.
Moderator: Stephen Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Information and Registration for Ray Dalio: https://www.ncuscr.org/event/CTH-2020-ray-dalio
To register for their other presentations: https://www.ncuscr.org/events

LRCCS Panel Discussion:
Changing Times in US-China Relations: Panel Discussion and Community Conversation
8:00pm-9:00pm EST
The U-M China Center presents U-M faculty Alan Deardorff, Public Policy; Lan Deng, Urban Planning; and Ann Lin, Public Policy for discussion and questions from the audience. Twila Tardif, LRCCS Director, will moderate. Please submit any questions for them through the Zoom Q&A function.

Register for the Panel: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MHd2I63oQZ69o38H-ODKCA

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:33:04 -0500 2020-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual CHINA Town Hall | Local Connections, National Reflections: A Nationwide Discussion on China
Course Backpacking for Winter 2021 (November 11, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79238 79238-20233432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Interested in K-Pop, Postwar Japan, or the Lotus Sutra? Come to SASS’s course backpacking session to learn more about the opportunities that the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) offers!
If you have any questions about the process of backpacking or registration, or simply interested in learning about the fun courses offered by the ALC department, this is the event for you! Asian Studies students will be there to share their past experiences with various culture and languages classes as well as offer advice about course selection. It will be a good opportunity to connect with others in your major/minor and make new friends :)
This event will take place during our general meeting time, from 7-8PM on Wednesday,
November 11th. We look forward to meeting you then!

Zoom Meeting ID: 977 6496 8069
Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97764968069

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:45:48 -0500 2020-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Orange Background with Black text - information on time and meeting description
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Constructing a China: Nationalism and Culture in Modern History" (November 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76166 76166-19671599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

“What is the ‘Chinese way’? How should China’s traditions speak to its future?” During the past three decades, China’s intellectuals have been increasingly preoccupied with defining the country’s cultural identity in its pursuit of political modernity. While their positions vary, intellectuals share the assumption that there are unique elements to China’s historical and cultural institutions, and that China’s future ought to be based on this legacy. This exceptionalist turn is unfolding at a time when the party-state is in search of a new ideology based on nationalism. Understanding this recent turn and its continued political force requires us to revisit the deeper roots of modern Chinese national thought. Diverging from the dominant view that modern Chinese nationalism is a product of Western-style modernization, this talk explores how the quest for a Chinese cultural identity became central to debates over political and moral values. This century-long pattern can help to shed light on where China’s intellectual and political life is heading.

Wen Yu is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2018. Her research focuses on China’s social and political thought, ideological movements, and intellectual culture from the seventeenth century to the present. Her dissertation, "The Search for a Chinese Way in the Modern World: From the Rise of Evidential Learning to the Birth of Chinese Cultural Identity,” explores the roots and development of modern Chinese exceptionalism by tracing how the search for a Chinese cultural identity has become central to the intellectual debates over shared values in modern China. Her dissertation was awarded the 2017 Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize.

Zoom webinar registration (required) is here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I_97dhoFQ8e8YP-Om9ZctA

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:21:55 -0500 2020-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Wen Yu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
MEMS Faculty Showcase: East Asia Series 3 (November 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77841 77841-19933639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Chinese Renaissance: Problems of Form and Style in Writing a Trade Book about Eleventh-Century China

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:15:45 -0400 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion 11th c painting of 4th c scholars collating texts
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Designing Online Platforms for Offline Services in China: A Market-Frictions Based Perspective" (December 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76169 76169-19671600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar.

Using market-frictions based logic, Dr. Wu and his co-author/researcher on this project, develop an analytical model that examines how online platforms can govern opportunistic behavior of offline service providers in China, thus allowing market forces to promote the general welfare. Their work sheds new light on how platform design can help reduce market frictions in economic exchanges and potentially shape the evolution of industries.

Xun (Brian) Wu is an Associate Professor of Strategy (with tenure), Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow, and faculty director of China Initiatives at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He received his BS from Tsinghua University in China, MSc from National University of Singapore, and PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

His research examines the dynamics of corporate scope and the evolution of industries. His research has been published or is forthcoming in top scholarly journals including "Management Science," "Organization Science," and "Strategic Management Journal." He serves as an Associate Editor for "Strategic Management Journal."

Register for the zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_My-R332ZQeiP40EjWmIQig

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:37:03 -0500 2020-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Brian Wu, Associate Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
China Ongoing Perspectives ~ CHOP | Please Remember Me (December 2, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79365 79365-20286535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

1 hr 18 minutes; Chinese with English subtitles.
Followed by discussion with U-M Professor Lydia Li (School of Social Work).
Director Qing Zhao follows her great uncle and great aunt over three years as they face the challenges of aging and the onset of Alzheimer’s. A touching documentary, this film shows acouple’s resilience in managing daily life and living alone without the traditional support of an extended family. The film will be moderated by Lydia Li, U-M Professor of Social Work. Special thanks to the U-M Askwith Media Library to make the streaming of this film possible.
Please note that the film screening will be held through Zoom Video Conferencing for U-M affiliates only (those with a valid U-M uniqname and password). The first 50 to register will be able to enjoy a synchronous viewing of the film in the viewing “studio.” For the remaining guests, we will provide the link for independent viewing. After the film (1 hr 18 min), rejoin us via Zoom for the live discussion and Q/A with Professor Lydia Li.

REGISTER HERE: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96464919624

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) is a movie/discussion series which provides selected documentary films that view greater China through the lens of everyday life as well as overseas Chinese, immigrants and travellers' experiences--those slices of reality touching on transitional/ transcultural events and memories.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:33:34 -0500 2020-12-02T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual China Ongoing Perspectives ~ CHOP | Please Remember Me
A Beautiful Country (December 2, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79529 79529-20353344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

WATCH ONLINE at http://myumi.ch/PlOEY

Department of Theatre & Drama

By Chay Yew
with additional monologues written by
Alexandra Lee and Amanda Kuo

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a transgender drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it
means to be an American.

This production was filmed over two weeks in the Arthur Miller Theatre and various remote locations according to the School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s approved safety plan. All safety protocols for the performing arts to prevent the spread of Covid 19 were observed. The production will receive its premiere on Facebook and be available for one week on YouTube beginning on Wednesday, December 2nd.

more information at: http://myumi.ch/AxRBd

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 18:15:03 -0500 2020-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
International Institute Webinar. The MIRS Advantage - Masters in International and Regional Studies (December 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77308 77308-19838057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

*This event will be held on the first Monday of October, November, and December*
10/5, 11/2, 12/7 from 11 AM EST to 12 PM

RSVP required to attend: http://myumi.ch/v2jDR

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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*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. Contact mirs-info@umich.edu*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS_webinar-banner
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "The People’s Courts Forty Years On - Appraisal and Argument" (December 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76177 76177-19671608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

The PRC’s post-1978 court bureaucracy is assumed to be the cat’s paw of an all-encompassing and authoritarian system of social control—lacking everything from political independence to the technical competence required to play a robust role in contemporary China’s increasingly complex economic system and contentious civil society. This easy appraisal of the function and performance of the People’s Courts at all levels in contemporary China is not accurate now, if it ever was, and ignores concurrent developments in the surrounding political legal system, including the application of a new generation of substantive and procedural laws and regulations, the rise of a private bar intent on pushing the boundaries of professional autonomy, the increased (legal) sophistication and autonomy of PRC judicial officials, and the expansion of the public law and administrative law spheres. Professor Howson will review what the PRC People’s Courts have become in the civil, criminal and administrative law spheres over the past 40 years along three distinct lines of inquiry – (technical) competence, (bureaucratic) autonomy, and (political) independence, and make an argument as to how this key institution may shape the future of China’s “Socialist Legality” and the national governance system.

Nicholas Howson is the Pao Li Tsiang Chair Professor of Law at the Michigan Law School. A specialist in Chinese law and legal institutions and developing Chinese jurisprudence, he is a former partner of the New York based international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he was a managing partner of that firm’s Asia Practice based in Beijing. Starting in the late 1970s, he has spent more than a decade as a student, scholar, and practicing lawyer resident in Beijing and Shanghai, has been active in the Chinese courts and US and international judicial fora as both an advocate and expert witness on Chinese law, and since the late 1990s has advised the National People’s Congress and PRC ministries on the drafting and amendment of key Reform era statutes and administrative regulations, including the 1999 PRC Securities Law, the 2006 PRC Company Law and the 2020 PRC Securities Law.

Register for this webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0AdD6iNDS6-iXL0BS_AaXw

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:17:21 -0500 2020-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Nicholas Howson, Pao Li Tsiang Chair Professor of Law, Michigan Law School
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Maverick or Modern: Gong Zizhen (1792 -1841) and the Origins of Buddhist Studies (January 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80214 80214-20601990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

While Gong Zizhen (1792-1841) has been acclaimed as a patriotic poet and a prophet of revolutions and modernity in China, his Buddhist thoughts and practices have often been either overlooked or misunderstood. Why did Gong profess his devotion to Tiantai Buddhism in particular, and yet why did he choose to criticize the Lotus Sutra, the most sacred scripture for Tiantai? This research investigates Gong's unique Buddhism in relation to modern religiosity and modern Buddhist Studies.

Dr. Lang Chen is a research fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. Before joining the University of Michigan, she was an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her PhD in religious studies at Yale University and worked as a postdoctoral fellow for the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. She is working on her book project on Tiantai Buddhism in late imperial China.

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.

Zoom webinar, attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P3rfxwFTSnCwLuda2G6lyg

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:17:08 -0500 2021-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Lang Chen, Research Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
COVID-19 vaccine administration in the US and China: Policy, practice and perceptions (January 22, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80479 80479-20728299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UMMS Global REACH

The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. has differed considerably from the approaches taken in China. Now that vaccines are becoming available. The approaches each country is taking to vaccination policies also seem to differ. Please join us for a conversation among trusted partners at UM and in China on the approaches that are being planned in the respective countries.

UMMS Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives Joseph C. Kolars will moderate the discussion, featuring Hai Fang, from Peking University Health Science Center, and Michigan Medicine' Sandro Cinti.

A Professor at the China Center for Health Development Studies, Dr. Fang, PhD, is a renowned health economist. His research areas include health economic evaluation, vaccine economics, and health policy.

A leading expert on HIV clinical research as well as emerging infectious diseases, Dr. Cinti, MD, is a co-chair of the a multidisciplinary task force responsible for devising and overseeing Michigan Medicine’s vaccination strategy.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:50:33 -0500 2021-01-22T07:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UMMS Global REACH Livestream / Virtual COVID-19 vaccine administration in the US and China
Chinese 1 (January 25, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79986 79986-20525410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course places emphasis on basic and fundamental Chinese. By using analytical and systematic ways to introduce Chinese characters, sentences, structures, patterns and templates, etc.

At the end students should be able to replace subject, verb and object to make sentences they would like to say or carry on conversation.

This study group led by Angela Yang will meet Mondays beginning on January 25 through May 10.

Preregistration 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, 29 Dec 2020 10:12:27 -0500 2021-01-25T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Indigenous Voices, Global Echoes: Chinese Ethnic Minority Literature and the ‘Transnational Tribal Solidarity’ (January 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80183 80183-20594124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Home to fifty-five officially recognized ethnic minority groups, China has witnessed a vibrant blossoming of multiethnic literature produced by its non-Han groups in the reform era. In Western scholarship, such multiethnic literary voices have remained largely silent and understudied. Drawing from her first book manuscript, in this talk, Dr. Zhang will offer a critical and timely introduction to Chinese ethnic minority literature from a global perspective. Particularly, she will demonstrate how literature produced by ethnic groups of southwest China seeks to forge a "transnational tribal solidarity:" minority poets articulate their connections to Native American cultures and Latin American literary influences. Rooted in both indigenous traditions and transnational cultural imagination, contemporary Chinese minority literature is vital for scholars of China and global multiculturalism to understand the movements, interactions, and negotiations taking place between indigenous/ethnic communities, the nation, and transnational forces in our increasingly interconnected world.

Yanshuo Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Her current book manuscript, tentatively titled "Beyond Minority: The Qiang and Ethno-national Imagination in Modern China," is an innovative interdisciplinary project that combines anthropological field research in the ethnic regions of southwest China with close reading of previously under-studied minority cultural articulations in contemporary China. Dr. Zhang's articles have appeared or will appear in positions: "asia critique," " Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature," "Heritage and Society," among other journals. She received her PhD in Chinese Literature and Culture from Stanford University and grew up in China's multiethnic Sichuan Province.

Zoom webinar, attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7HcSZv1IQF-hC0mcsJw-xg

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:41:22 -0500 2021-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yanshuo Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (February 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80370 80370-20711698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? This talk, based on Professor Lindtner’s most recent publication "Prototype Nation" (Princeton University Press, 2020), offers a rich transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China’s governance and global image. With historical precision and ethnographic detail, Professor Lindtner reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007–08, shaped the rise of the global maker movement and the vision of China as a “new frontier” of innovation.

Silvia Lindtner is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information. She researches, writes and teaches about DIY (do-it-yourself) maker culture, with a particular focus on its intersections with manufacturing and industry development in China. Drawing on her background in interaction design and media studies, she merges ethnographic methods with approaches in design and making. This allows her to provide deep insights into emerging cultures of technology production and use, from a sociological and technological perspective.

Together with Anna Greenspan (NYU SH) and David Li (XinCheJian), Silvia Lindtner is also the co-founder of the Research Initiative Hacked Matter. Hacked Matter. It has, since its inception in 2011, organized a series of workshops, lectures, public panel discussions as well as hands-on engagements with questions of DIY making, manufacturing, and innovation ecosystems.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wJ0Z2eYHQ6GWAu1oqDbkeA

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:24:40 -0500 2021-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation