Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Exhibit: Sino-American Relations and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," 1971-1972 (Sept.15-Dec. 22, 2017) (September 15, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43895 43895-9852295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the early 1970s, the two large countries at either end of the Pacific shaped the restless world in their own ways. China was moving full steam ahead on the Cultural Revolution. The U.S. was grappling with a series of domestic and international problems including the Vietnam War. Mired in ideological opposition, U.S.-China relations had been hostile since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Getting these Cold War foes to reconnect with each other looked like a mission impossible. Curiously, Ping-Pong emerged to play an important role in bringing U.S.-China relations to rapprochement in the early 1970s and finally to normalization in 1979.

The historically significant Ping-Pong exchanges between China and the U.S. held in 1971 and 1972, which came to be called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” (乒乓外交 pingpang waijiao) in English, were nicknamed xiaoqiu zhuandong daqiu 小球转动大球 (small ball spins the big globe) in Chinese. Unbeknownst to many, Michigan played a key role in the 1972 exchanges.

Featuring an authentic Ping-Pong-table-sized panel that details highlights of these exchanges, this exhibition commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M. Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Liangyu Fu, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Asia Library.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:49 -0500 2017-09-15T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Sino-American Relations and “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” 1971-1972
Patient Centered Care Approach of Traditional Chinese Medicine (September 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43928 43928-9855167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: U-M College of Pharmacy

Brought to you by the College of Pharmacy's International Chinese Student Cohort.

What does patient centered care look like in other cultures? In Chinese culture this approach is focused on preventing illness using herbal medicines and various mind and body practices. Please join us as we learn from the PharmD international students from China, who will share about their culture’s approaches to caring for patients, and explore what it means for working with diverse populations in the United States.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:30:27 -0400 2017-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 1100 North University Building U-M College of Pharmacy Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Ping-Pong Diplomacy Celebration: Musical Performance & Exhibition Table Tennis Games (September 18, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42042 42042-9527925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Office of University Development

After more than two decades of political disassociation between the U.S. and China, the 1972 Chinese Ping Pong delegation visited Ann Arbor at the invitation of the University of Michigan. This activity helped begin formal communication and relations between our nations and later became known as Ping Pong Diplomacy.

Today, the U.S. and China have a strong bilateral relationship, and this relationship is, with certainty, the most important geopolitical relationship on the planet. One of many emblems of our strong relationship is the thousands of Chinese students, visiting scholars, faculty, and staff that Michigan proudly welcomes to campus each year. They contribute immensely to our campus learning community. Michigan also sends numerous students, faculty, and staff to China each year to participate in dozens of programs, including Joint Institutes we have with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Peking University Health Science Center.

In celebration of the 45th anniversary of Ping Pong Diplomacy, the University of Michigan is excited to host an evening highlighting the history, impact, and a continued dedication to a solid relationship between Michigan and China. We hope you’ll join us for a community event including remarks from distinguished guests, a musical performance, and several exciting table tennis games.

Musical Performance by Silk Cedar Band

Table Tennis Players:
LIANG Geliang 梁戈亮, male, member of '72 team
ZHENG Huaiying 郑怀颖, female, member of '72 team
WANG Hao 王皓, male, retired in 2014, multiple time world champion
YAN Sen 阎森, male, retired in 2006, Olympic gold medalist (2000)
DING Ning 丁宁, female, current Chinese team captain
QIAO Hong 乔红,female, retired in 1996, Olympic gold medalist (1992, 1996)
Connie Sweeris, female, member of '72 US team
Dell Sweeris, male, member of '72 US team

This event is co-sponsored by the the U-M Association of Chinese Professors, the U-M Confucius Institute, the Office of Research, the Lieberthal - Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Office of University Development, the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, and the Chinese Table Tennis Association.

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Performance Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:56:52 -0400 2017-09-18T19:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T21:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Office of University Development Performance Ping-Pong Diplomacy Celebration: Musical Performance & Exhibition Table Tennis Games
Medieval Lunch. Cultures of the Medieval City in Asia (September 19, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43659 43659-9829804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Two of this semester’s lunches pair graduate students & faculty across departments whose projects share broad themes, ideas, or sources. First up:

Christian de Pee: “Text and the City: Literary Topography and Urban History in Middle-Period China, 800-1100”

Rob Morissey: “Performing the Capital: Aristocratic Culture as Utopia in Fourteenth-Century Kyoto”

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Sep 2017 09:16:54 -0400 2017-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Ideas of the urban
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Grand Picture of China's Capitalist Revolution (September 26, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41669 41669-9424053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

Attempts to explain China's development all suffer from a “blind men and elephant" problem: depending on when and where one looks within China, every theory is development is correct, yet none is complete. What then is the grand picture of China's great economic and institutional transformation? The answer lies in the sequence of strategies, rather than in any particular factor. In China, the first step of development was paradoxically to kick-start markets using "weak/wrong/backward" institutions.

Yuen Yuen Ang is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, and a Faculty Associate at the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. She is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell University Press, Series in Political Economy, 2016), which won the 2017 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for “outstanding book in international relations, comparative politics, or political economy.”

An op-ed on her talk is available at this link: https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-harnessing-weak-institutions-to-build-markets-90920

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:46:41 -0400 2017-09-26T11:30:00-04:00 2017-09-26T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
Vestiges of Snake Cults: The Banana Python and His Sons (September 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44784 44784-9980556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Snake cults, which were probably once prevalent among the indigenes of southern China, have all but disappeared through the subjugation of snake deities (a.k.a. demons) by Buddhist monks, Daoist priests and Shamanistic local deities. While most snake deities exist as defeated demons/demonesses in religious lore, their power continues to be harnessed in some religious rituals and recognized in remote regions of Fujian. The Banana Python God and his three sons are a prominent example of their survival in transformed incarnations. In her presentation, Dr. Fan Pen Chen of SUNY-Albany, will share photos of temple murals as well as video recordings of string-puppet performances that depict the sacred tale of these snake gods.

Dr. Fan Pen Chen is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at SUNY-Albany. She is the author of Chinese Shadow Theater: History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors; Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays from Shaanxi and Shanxi; Marionette Plays from Northern China; Journey of a Goddess: Chen Jinggu Subdues White Snake (forthcoming); and dozens of articles on Chinese drama, fiction, puppetry, and folk religion.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:15:21 -0400 2017-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Snake Girl
Department of Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Nova Heart & Shao (September 29, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44554 44554-9925934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

An indie band from Beijing led by lead singer Helen Feng (aka Beijing’s Queen of Rock), Nova Heart was founded in 2011 and has been embraced by music critics, the art & fashion crowds + electronic and indie music fans in China and in Europe. They have been featured in some of the most important media around the world from NME,Vogue, Rolling Stone, VICE, and The Guardian. The band had a full page in Die Zeit, and was featured in Der Spiegel, Les Inrockuptibles, and Le Monde.

Shao (aka DEAD J) is the very first (and the best) Chinese techno artist, one of China’s leading electronic artists. A highly sought-after composer and sound designer, he created his own live audio visual set with visual artist Wang Meng in 2010. In September 2015, he released his EP Dopplershift on Tresor Records, making him the first Chinese artist on the techno music label in Berlin, Germany.

Co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:15:27 -0400 2017-09-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Department of Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Nova Heart & Shao
Electric China: An Insider’s Story (September 29, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45179 45179-10107402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

The lead singer of Nova Heart, a co-founder of NEU future Festival (www.neutechina.com) and FakeMusicMedia (www.fakemusicmedia.com), Helen Feng is one of the most important musicians in contemporary China. Helen will share her thoughts about the Chinese electronic music scene and the music business in China.

About the speaker:

An ex MTV VJ and radio personality, Helen Feng is a founding member of Nova Heart that was formed in 2011. Dubbed as the “Queen of Beijing Rock” or “Blondie of China,” Helen was born in Beijing and raised in Louisiana, U.S. and Canada. She has been a staple in the Chinese music scene since she moved back from Los Angeles to Beijing in 2002 when she was hired as VJ for MTV China.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:10:38 -0400 2017-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Nova heart
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Firms’ Strategic Use of Political Connections (October 3, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41670 41670-9424054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

We analyze Chinese listed firms to examine how a firm’s political connections in a location influence the firm’s probability of choosing the focal location to establish new subsidiaries. We find that firms are less likely to choose a politically connected location that also faces higher unemployment rates. We also find that political connections matter less for the choice of locations with more developed markets. Therefore, firms’ use of political connections is strategic and highly context dependent.

Dr. Nan Jia is an assistant professor of strategic management at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. She holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (Canada), and B.A. in Economics from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University (China). Her research interests include corporate political strategy, business-governance relationships, and corporate governance in international business. Her research has been published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organizational Science, and Journal of Politics. Her work is mainly empirical, but also incorporates economic modeling. She serves on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of International Business Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:15:16 -0400 2017-10-03T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-03T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion nan Jia
Chinese 2 (October 9, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42239 42239-9591198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Students in this study group for those 50 and above will be able to express themselves and carry on some simple Chinese conversations.

Instructor Angela Yang will lead two hour sessions on Mondays from October 9 through November 6.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:53:01 -0400 2017-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Limits of Chinese Buddhism: Protecting the State in the Dali Kingdom (937-1253) (October 10, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41709 41709-9440418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

The Dali Kingdom governed a large swath of territory in what is now southwest China and Southeast Asia. Its rulers embraced Buddhism, especially the state-protection Buddhism of the Renwang jing (Scripture for Humane Kings), which was written in fifth-century China. This talk uses texts and images related to the Renwang jing from the Dali kingdom to examine how border regions like Dali challenge the academic category of “Chinese Buddhism.”

Megan Bryson is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research focuses on Buddhism and local religion in the Dali region of southwest China as well as the themes of gender and ethnicity in Chinese religions. Professor Bryson has published several articles on these topics in journals such as "Asian Ethnology", "Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies", and "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society". Her monograph, “Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China” was published by Stanford University Press last year. She spent the 2016-17 academic year on an ACLS fellowship to work on a new project on Buddhist networks in the Dali kingdom.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:42:30 -0400 2017-10-10T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-10T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Megan Bryson
Chinese Culture and History (October 16, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42243 42243-9591206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This class will provide a general survey of Chinese history, geography, philosophy and culture. It will cover education, government, communication, health beliefs, sports, migration, wars and their impacts, American influence, and the Taiwan issue.
This class for those 50 and above will meet for two hours on Mondays from October 16 through November 20.

Instructor Amy Seetoo was a co-founder of the Chinese American Society of Ann Arbor and the Healthy Asian Americans Project at U of M.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:03:52 -0400 2017-10-16T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Ross China Initiatives and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies present "Climbing Life's Mountains" (October 18, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45779 45779-10276752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Wang Shi 王石
Founder, Vanke 万科
Lieberthal-Rogel Distinguished Visitor

No matter where life takes you, you will encounter mountains that challenge you to tackle issues from new perspectives. The art of overcoming obstacles is a prominent trademark of today’s most successful international business figures. To address this topic with details of his own personal “mountain climbing” life experiences, Ross China Initiatives and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies is proud to welcome Mr. Wang Shi 王石 to the Ross School of Business. Of the three tallest mountains Wang has come up against, namely ascending Mt. Everest at age 52 in 2003, initiating an environmental protection program following his climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and studying at Harvard with limited exposure to English, he cites his time in Cambridge as the most demanding peak to scale. Wang’s talk will center around his strategies for approaching and overcoming life’s mountains.

In 1984, Wang Shi founded China Vanke Co., Ltd., a real estate development company. Under his leadership, Vanke has grown into one of the most successful real estate development companies in the world as well as a pioneer in China’s green home construction. In addition to his role with Vanke, Wang serves as a chairman for numerous enterprises. In 2015, he was entitled “The Most Influential Entrepreneur in China” by Hurun Rich List because of his great sense of social responsibility and international initiatives. He splits his spare time between philanthropy and involvement in the rowing community, serving as the chairman of the Asian Rowing Federation.

Mr. Wang Shi is one of the most respected business leaders in China, and it is truly an honor to welcome him to Michigan Ross. This Wednesday, October 18th, doors will open at 1:30pm. Wang’s presentation will be held from 2-3pm followed by a discussion panel and Q&A session ending at 4pm. We hope you are able to join us in listening to this distinguished speaker as he shares his inspiring experiences in the business world and beyond.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:22:00 -0400 2017-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Wang Shi, Founder of China Vanke
Interarts Modernism (October 20, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45528 45528-10217631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Jessica Burstein joins us for a conversation about visual culture and interdisciplinary methodologies with Xiaobing Tang (Asian Languages and Cultures), Andrea Zemgulys (English), Megan Berkobien (Comparative Literature), Grant Mandarino (Art History), and Amanda Greene (English)


Jessica Burstein is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington who works on modernism, fashion, the avant-garde, and prosthetics. Her area of expertise is British literature from the late 19th century through the 1960s, and its West European contexts. She has taught graduate courses on fashion and modernism, the middlebrow, and introductions to modernism. Undergraduate courses range from large lecture introductions to the English major; to smaller seminars on boredom, wandering women, contemporary fiction, blood, privacy, and "Excellent Women"--the latter part of an ongoing interest in domestic fictions and under-read female British writers of the 1910s-1960s. Professor Burstein also teaches modern novel courses, some focusing on adultery, some on embodiment; and major texts courses based on Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf. She has published on Dorothy Parker, Wyndham Lewis, crowds, and once in a while in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her book Cold Modernism engages Wyndham Lewis, Mina Loy, Balthus, Hans Bellmer, Henry James, and Coco Chanel, and covers the period 1896-1948. She is also member of the editorial committee of the scholarly journal Modernism/modernity.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 14 Oct 2017 14:09:35 -0400 2017-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Lunch and Learn: Intern Abroad with CRCC Asia (October 20, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45702 45702-10262639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 2:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Lunch and Learn: Global Internships with CRCC Asia
China, Japan, Vietnam, England

Join CRCC Asia for lunch and a presentation regarding international internship opportunities in 14+ sectors.

Session attendees receive 10% off program fees.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:39:33 -0400 2017-10-20T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Presentation CRCC Asia
Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. Keith Howard, Uni. of London (October 20, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45440 45440-10178329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The martial processional, Taech’wit’a, is preserved in South Korea through the maintenance of a limited and formulaic repertoire as Intangible Cultural Property 46. The revival of recent decades masks a break in performance at the beginning of the 20th century and a troubled initial redevelopment under Japanese colonial control. To do so, the identity enshrined in the Property designation, and the musical soundworld, has been reliant on iconography. But, the earliest iconographic representation Koreans have identified is in a 1600-year-old tomb on territory then home to a Chinese commandery, while some of the most elaborate depictions of martial music come down to us from Japanese sources. How are these sources interpreted to create something iconically Korean? This paper explores, for the first time, the procession of instruments in a previously unknown Japanese 12m-long hand scroll that has been attributed to Kanō Tōun Masunobu (1625-1694), the Chōsen shisetsu gyōretsu zukan, and the disguised musical activity in one of Hokusai’s (1760-1849) ‘100 Views of Mount Fuji’ woodblock prints. Neither depiction has to date been referenced by Korean musicologists. Both celebrate the extraordinary rather than the everyday: they date from a period when Korea’s relations with Japan were tightly controlled—over a 200-year period, Korea dispatched just 10 envoys to Japan, each following a regular, seasonal path. The hand scroll juxtaposes Japanese samurai and Korean musicians, while the second, where, a decidedly secular party replaces any martial overtones, dispenses with formality. To the Japanese artists, difference was tempered by their knowledge of Japanese musical practice, while Korean scholars examining the existing iconography (including tomb paintings), bring difference into alignment with a Korea-centered history. Using these significant new resources, the author explores how a specific martial music has travelled and transmigrated, and how it has been presented, re-presented, preserved and re-preserved.

Lecture co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the Nam Center for Korean Studies.

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Performance Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:15:31 -0400 2017-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. Keith Howard, Uni. of London
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Literary Inscription of Things in Early Modern China (October 24, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41710 41710-9440419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

In addition to writing with the brush and ink, late imperial Chinese poets engraved their words onto cups and chairs, walking sticks, slabs of stone, and musical instruments. This talk examines how such practices challenge our own notions of writing and reading literature.

Tom Kelly received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2017 and is a first-year fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. His current research explores the relationship between Chinese literature and the decorative arts in the early modern world.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:32:25 -0400 2017-10-24T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-24T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Thomas Kelly
Successful Barbour Alumnae: An International Career Panel and Lunch (October 24, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45641 45641-10242992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Please join us for a multi-disciplinary panel discussion about "Life after Barbour" with Rackham alumae and former Barbour Scholars. Our panelists include:

Amy Ai
Ph.D., Social Work and Social Science
Professor of Social Work, Florida State University

Xueyan (Sharon) Wang
Ph.D., Physiology
Director of Preclinical Development and Project Management, AntriaBio, Inc.

Hsiu-chuan Lee
Ph.D., Comparative Literature
Professor of English, National Taiwan Normal University

Yuqing (Melanie) Wu
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering
Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Pomona College

Learn about the impact of the Barbour Scholarship on their work, and the trajectories that have led them to their current roles. Lunch will be served.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=502.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:51:36 -0400 2017-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Presentation Rackham Logo
LRCCS Special Event | CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections (October 24, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43658 43658-9829805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies will partner with the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York for their annual CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections.

The event will begin with a 5:00pm reception, followed by a 6:00pm presentation by Damien Ma, Paulson Institute, who will speak on "Searching for New Ballast in the US-China Relationship." Then at 7:00pm we will show a live web stream of a conversation with The Honorable Susan E. Rice, Former National Security Advisor and the US Ambassador to the United Nations.

The webcast will be moderated by Mr. Stephen A. Orlins, President, National Committee on US-China Relations.

With cosponsorship from the National Committee on US-China Relations, New York.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Oct 2017 08:40:02 -0400 2017-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion CHINA Town Hall ~ Local Connections, National Reflections
The Amazing Molihua: Culture and Meaning of China’s Most Well-known Folksong (October 25, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45890 45890-10321770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Internationally known as “Jasmine,” the song molihua was an East-China folksong of humble beginning. Like many regional folksongs in China whose origins were mostly unknown, molihua exists throughout the region in numerous versions. The molihua that most people know today was collected and documented by British diplomats George MaCartney and John Barrow presented in his book Travel in China in late 18th century. Puccini’s incorporation of it in his opera Turandot in 1924, further consolidated the tune’s global reputation. Since then, molihua has emerged as the most well-known Chinese musical and cultural icon at home and abroad. This presentation traces the brief history of molihua and describes the different ways that it was being utilized. Dr. Lau argues hat the shifting meaning of molihua is predicated on what molihua represents against the ever-changing economic and political context of China since the new millennium.

Frederick Lau is an ethnomusicologist, flutist, and conductor whose scholarly interests include a broad range of topics in Chinese, Western, and Asian music and cultures. He is author of Music in China (Oxford 2008) and co-editor of Making Waves: Traveling Musics in Asia and the Pacific (Uiversity of Hawaii Press, forthcoming), Vocal Music and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Music: Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West (Routledge 2013), Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (Wesleyan 2004). Lau is editor of the book series entitled Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific, University of Hawaii Press. Currently, he is the chair and professor of Ethnomusicology and director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:49:12 -0400 2017-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Fred Lau
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Commodifying Art, Chinese Style: The Making of China’s Visual Art Market (October 31, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41711 41711-9440420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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The rapid ascendance of China as a superpower in the global art market and associated transformation of China’s art space have attracted global attention. This talk seeks to interpret the spatial and institutional evolution of China’s visual art market, and the rise of Chinese art clusters such as Songzhuang and the 798 District in Beijing.

Jun Zhang is an assistant professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto. Previously, he was on the faculty of Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His main research interests include: geography of innovation, industrial globalization, and geographic theorizing of markets, states, and institutions. After extensive empirical research on China’s Internet sector and venture capital development, he recently he has been exploring China’s electronics and art sectors, as well as the broad features of the emerging ‘Chinese Capitalism’ and its multi-scalar dynamics. He received his degrees from Peking University and University of Minnesota.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:42:30 -0400 2017-10-31T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-31T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Commodifying Art, Chinese Style: The Making of China’s Visual Art Market
Asian Languages and Cultures Info Session (November 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45099 45099-10084364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 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.

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 (including China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea) and of disciplines (including literature, film, language, religion, and history) in order develop two vital qualities: a deep local 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, Tibetan, Urdu, and Vietnamese).

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at https://lsa.umich.edu/asian/undergraduates/informationsessions.html. We hope to see you there!

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Other Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:34:02 -0400 2017-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other Flyer
Exhibit: Sino-American Relations and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," 1971-1972 (Sept.15-Dec. 22, 2017) (November 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43895 43895-9855152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the early 1970s, the two large countries at either end of the Pacific shaped the restless world in their own ways. China was moving full steam ahead on the Cultural Revolution. The U.S. was grappling with a series of domestic and international problems including the Vietnam War. Mired in ideological opposition, U.S.-China relations had been hostile since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Getting these Cold War foes to reconnect with each other looked like a mission impossible. Curiously, Ping-Pong emerged to play an important role in bringing U.S.-China relations to rapprochement in the early 1970s and finally to normalization in 1979.

The historically significant Ping-Pong exchanges between China and the U.S. held in 1971 and 1972, which came to be called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” (乒乓外交 pingpang waijiao) in English, were nicknamed xiaoqiu zhuandong daqiu 小球转动大球 (small ball spins the big globe) in Chinese. Unbeknownst to many, Michigan played a key role in the 1972 exchanges.

Featuring an authentic Ping-Pong-table-sized panel that details highlights of these exchanges, this exhibition commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M. Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Liangyu Fu, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Asia Library.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:49 -0500 2017-11-06T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Sino-American Relations and “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” 1971-1972
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Consuming Belief: Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the PRC (November 7, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41715 41715-9440433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

In the context of a perceived spiritual and moral crisis in Chinese society, growing numbers of Han Chinese are turning to Tibetan Buddhism for ethical guidance. This talk, based on an ethnographic study of a group of affluent, urban Han Chinese followers of Tibetan Buddhism, examines the sources of the appeal of Tibetan Buddhism for wealthy Chinese and the range of ways in which they integrate Buddhist principles and ritual practice into their lives as well as some of the tensions that have emerged in communities of followers. For some, donations to Tibetan lamas serve as a form of “spiritual protection money” that will safeguard their businesses and enhance their careers, while for others, Buddhist principles become the basis for dramatic moral and social transformation.

John Osburg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Rochester. He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2008. Prior to his current position, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies at Stanford University. His research interests include morality, corruption, luxury consumption, gender and sexuality, and spirituality in contemporary China. Osburg’s first book, Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China’s New Rich (Stanford, 2013), examines the intersection of China’s market reforms with the local moral worlds and social networks of entrepreneurs and government officials in southwest China. Currently, he is engaged in two research projects. The first examines the effects of the current anti-corruption campaign on the cohort of businesspeople who were featured in Anxious Wealth. The other project, based on fieldwork Osburg conducted in 2014 and 2015, looks at wealthy Han Chinese who have become followers and patrons of Tibetan Buddhism. Professor Osburg is also currently a Fellow of the Public Intellectual Program at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:27:59 -0400 2017-11-07T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-07T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Capital Punishment and “Confucian Clemency”: The Quandaries of Qing Criminal Justice (November 14, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41712 41712-9440422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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Violent crime in the Chinese provinces of the empire was a growing concern for the Qing court over the course of the long eighteenth century (1683-1820). Part of a wider, unprecedented “legislative turn” in imperial rule that quadrupled the number of substatutes in the Qing code, successive emperors enacted a flood of new legislation that expanded the concept of criminal behavior and increased the number of death penalty offenses that were subject to annual review. The crackdown on crime swamped the judicial bureaucracy and created ideological, political, and institutional quandaries for the eighteenth-century criminal justice.

Tom Buoye is an Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Tulsa, Research Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, and Team Member, “Legalizing Space in China,” Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS Lyon, France, an international collaborative project to translate the sub-statutes of the Qing dynasty law code. His research interests span social, legal, and economic history of late imperial China. His current research focuses on the crisis in eighteenth century criminal justice and the “legislative turn” in Qing rule.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:39:06 -0400 2017-11-14T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-14T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Thomas Buoye, Associate Professor of History, University of Tulsa
Bioarchaeology of Adaptation to Climate Change in Ancient Northwest China (November 16, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46756 46756-10622859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Ruthven Museums Building
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Large-scale climate change in the second millennium BCE caused drought and social upheaval
around the world. In Northern Eurasia, it corresponded with the start of the Bronze Age and the
rise of pastoral nomadic societies. Elizabeth Berger has examined hundreds of skeletons from
Northwest China for evidence of dietary change, epidemiological transition, physiological stress,
migration, and other evidence of change in the human-environment system. In this talk, she will
outline her ecological approach and the results of the bioarchaeological investigation. Her
ongoing research has revealed broad continuity in way of life and even improvements in health
during the Chinese Bronze Age, evidence of resilience in ancient times.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:23:42 -0500 2017-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Ruthven Museums Building Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Ruthven Museums Building
Exhibit: Sino-American Relations and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," 1971-1972 (Sept.15-Dec. 22, 2017) (November 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43895 43895-10498325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the early 1970s, the two large countries at either end of the Pacific shaped the restless world in their own ways. China was moving full steam ahead on the Cultural Revolution. The U.S. was grappling with a series of domestic and international problems including the Vietnam War. Mired in ideological opposition, U.S.-China relations had been hostile since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Getting these Cold War foes to reconnect with each other looked like a mission impossible. Curiously, Ping-Pong emerged to play an important role in bringing U.S.-China relations to rapprochement in the early 1970s and finally to normalization in 1979.

The historically significant Ping-Pong exchanges between China and the U.S. held in 1971 and 1972, which came to be called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” (乒乓外交 pingpang waijiao) in English, were nicknamed xiaoqiu zhuandong daqiu 小球转动大球 (small ball spins the big globe) in Chinese. Unbeknownst to many, Michigan played a key role in the 1972 exchanges.

Featuring an authentic Ping-Pong-table-sized panel that details highlights of these exchanges, this exhibition commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M. Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Liangyu Fu, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Asia Library.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:49 -0500 2017-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-20T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Sino-American Relations and “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” 1971-1972
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Moralizing the Revolution: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Early Maoist Period (November 21, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43137 43137-9728909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

How do political actors mobilize support for and participation in violent movements and causes? Traditional collective action approaches have largely downplayed or ignored the significant moral-emotional barriers to participation, particularly in the context of high-risk, violent movements. Dr. Javed argues that political actors can eliminate these barriers to participation in violence by leveraging popular morality to: 1) delineate new social boundaries within communities that separate the "virtuous" public from a "morally degenerate" minority; and 2) provoke popular outrage against members of this targeted group through the theatrical display of their alleged moral transgressions--violations of shared norms of right and wrong behavior. He will demonstrate this process of moral mobilization using the case of the Chinese Communist Party's mass mobilization of violence against so-called "landlords" and "counterrevolutionaries" during the first several years of the Maoist period (1949-1953).

Jeffrey Javed is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the intersection of social mobilization and political violence, with a secondary focus on moral governance and memory politics. His current book project explores the process by which the nascent Chinese state mobilized popular participation in state repression during the mass campaigns of the early 1950s. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 from the Department of Government at Harvard University, and his B.A. in Sociology and East Asian Studies from Cornell University in 2009.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:49:48 -0500 2017-11-21T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-21T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Jeffrey Javed
EVENT CANCELLED | LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Transmitting the Mind-Ground: The Formation of Esoteric Buddhist Initiation Lineages in Late-Medieval China (November 28, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41714 41714-9440430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Chinese Buddhism of the eighth through tenth centuries was marked by internal debates over the orthodox interpretation of buddha nature theory—and the concomitant development of advanced ritual methods for attaining the buddha-mind, or mind-ground as it was also known. By the mid eighth century, the methods used to access and transmit the mind-ground, like the mind-ground itself, were being framed in increasingly esoteric terms. This talk traces the formation of a number of late-medieval Chinese Buddhist initiation lineages to these esoteric developments. Drawing primarily on excavated manuscript sources dating to the ninth and tenth centuries, it shows how the bodhisattva precepts conferral ceremony, the rite of dharma transmission, and tantric consecration were being combined to create competing Chinese Buddhist lineages of esoteric initiation in a variety of regional and institutional settings.

Amanda Goodman is Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. She specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism, particularly the transmission and transformation of tantric Buddhism in China during the formative Tang-Song transition period. She is currently preparing a book-length study titled "The Vajra Peak Scripture: A Chinese Buddhist Book of Esoteric Initiation and Empowerment Rites from Late Medieval Dunhuang" that reflects on regional and trans-regional esoteric Buddhist ritual developments during China’s middle period.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:04:40 -0500 2017-11-28T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-28T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Amanda Goodman
Exhibit: Sino-American Relations and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," 1971-1972 (Sept.15-Dec. 22, 2017) (December 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43895 43895-10498339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the early 1970s, the two large countries at either end of the Pacific shaped the restless world in their own ways. China was moving full steam ahead on the Cultural Revolution. The U.S. was grappling with a series of domestic and international problems including the Vietnam War. Mired in ideological opposition, U.S.-China relations had been hostile since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Getting these Cold War foes to reconnect with each other looked like a mission impossible. Curiously, Ping-Pong emerged to play an important role in bringing U.S.-China relations to rapprochement in the early 1970s and finally to normalization in 1979.

The historically significant Ping-Pong exchanges between China and the U.S. held in 1971 and 1972, which came to be called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” (乒乓外交 pingpang waijiao) in English, were nicknamed xiaoqiu zhuandong daqiu 小球转动大球 (small ball spins the big globe) in Chinese. Unbeknownst to many, Michigan played a key role in the 1972 exchanges.

Featuring an authentic Ping-Pong-table-sized panel that details highlights of these exchanges, this exhibition commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M. Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Liangyu Fu, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Asia Library.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:49 -0500 2017-12-04T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-04T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Sino-American Relations and “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” 1971-1972
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | ‘Spoken Drama (Huaju) with a Strong Chinese Flavor:’ The Resurrection and Demise of Popular Spoken Drama (Tongsu Huaju) in Shanghai in the 1950s and Early 1960s (December 5, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41716 41716-9440434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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Contrary to popular belief, China’s first, hybrid form of spoken drama wenmingxi (civilized drama) did not vanish after its brief glory in Shanghai in the 1910s; it lingered on as part of the popular entertainment in the following decades, including a brief revival in 1957. Known as tongsu huaju (popular spoken drama) by then, it attracted the attention of modern theatre huaju (spoken drama) experts who praised its dramaturgy and performance as much closer to indigenous Chinese theatre than huaju, thus triggering a debate over its efficacy and limitations in the nationalization of Western-oriented spoken theatre. Using contemporary sources, Professor Liu examines the brief rise and fall of tongsu huaju in Shanghai in the late 1950s and early 1960s with focus on its performance, the debate over its utility, the policies that ultimately led to its demise, and the implications of the tongsu huaju phenomenon on the periodization of modern Asian theatre.

Siyuan Liu is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of British Columbia. He is a former President of the Association for Asian Performance and editor of Asian Theatre Journal. His published books include Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre (2016), Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000 (co-author, Methuen 2014), and The Methuen Drama Anthology of Modern Asian Plays (co-editor, 2014). He has also published over two dozen articles and book chapters on Chinese theatre in the modern era.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:07:48 -0500 2017-12-05T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-05T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Siyuan Liu, Associate Professor of Theatre, University of British Columbia
LRCCS Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series | China’s Economic Reform in the Wake of the 19th Party Congress (December 5, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43141 43141-9728911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China’s economic reform has been stalled for some years and in the meantime financial risks are building up. With leadership issues settled by the 19th Congress, what are the prospects for vigorous economic reform? What are the key problems that Beijing needs to tackle? And how does this affect US-China economic relations?

David Dollar is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. He is a leading expert on China's economy and U.S.-China economic relations. From 2009 to 2013 he was the U.S. Treasury's economic and financial emissary to China. Before his time at Treasury, Dollar worked at the World Bank for 20 years, and from 2004 to 2009 was country director for China and Mongolia. His other World Bank assignments primarily focused on Asian economies, including South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Bangladesh and India. From 1995 to 2004, Dollar worked in the World Bank’s research department. Prior to his World Bank career, Dollar was an assistant professor of economics at UCLA, spending a semester in Beijing teaching at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Co-sponsored by the International Policy Center of the U-M Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:04:41 -0400 2017-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-05T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion David Dollar, Brookings Institution, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, John L. Thornton China Center
When Science is in Defense of Value-Linked Facts (December 6, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46693 46693-10581049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

A fundamental and early difference between Western philosophy and Chinese Confucianism is the importance in the West of certain dichotomies and their absence in China. I refer to reason/emotions and mind/matter, which, as dichotomies, are absent in classical Chinese thought. The Chinese position is that we cannot talk about knowing apart from the emotions; they are mutually involved. The same is true of the subjective and objective. My comments argue that in modern Anglo American philosophy there has also been a division between natural facts and moral values. Violating this division (such as claiming that we can derive an “ought” from an “is”) is called the “naturalistic fallacy.” This division owes part of its origin to the old dichotomies between knowing and emotions, and between mind and matter. Drawing on Chinese ethics, and also considering Western positions, I argue that there is a necessary connection between moral values and a theory of human nature. There are also connections between certain values, emotions, and facts: (1) Health and well-being; contentment and suffering; clinical and subjective facts (2) Social bonding; love and sympathy; symbiotic care. (3) Harmonious [和谐的] adaptation to hierarchy; respect and shame; conformity and potential cooperation. My position ends by being in some ways consistent with those of the contemporary Western thinkers Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Hillary Putnam.

The lecture will be followed by a response from Professor Sonya Özbey. If time permits, there will be a Q&A at the end.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:41:06 -0500 2017-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T18:15:00-05:00 Michigan League Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Event poster
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Geography of Political Self-Censorship in an Authoritarian State by Charles Chang and Melanie Manion (December 12, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41717 41717-9440435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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Authoritarian states generate a culture of self-censorship in political talk. Yet, preference falsification is surely not indifferent to geography. Audience aside, we expect political talk to flow less freely in public spaces than at home, for example. We expect citizens to self-censor their political talk in politicized public places, where features like political monuments, government buildings, and armed forces are conspicuous reminders of the powerful authoritarian state. We introduce a place-based theory that updates, for the internet age, the classic argument about how self-censorship undermines authoritarian states. We construct an innovative and rigorous test of the theory’s implications for citizens in China, by estimating very precisely how and when location in politicized public places impacts choices to engage in political talk in smartphone dispatches. We retrieve and analyze the population of 6.7 million geotagged smartphone dispatches that Beijing netizens posted on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, over a 350-day period in 2014 and 2015. Our research design exploits announcements, in our period of study, of communist party investigations into corruption by the some of China’s highest-ranking officials. Given the explosive political sensitivity of the news releases, the authorities carefully managed their timing. This allows us to identify very precisely the impact, at a time of political stress, of physical space on self-censorship in cyberspace through a difference-in-differences design that compares smartphone political talk at and away from politicized public places 72 hours before and after news of the investigation. We find evidence of significant place-based self-censorship that suggests a remarkable and sophisticated influence of place on political talk in cyberspace.

Melanie Manion is Vor Broker Family Professor of Political Science at Duke University. She studied philosophy and political economy at Peking University in the late 1970s, was trained in Far Eastern studies at McGill University and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and earned her doctorate in political science at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on contemporary authoritarianism, with empirical work on bureaucracy, corruption, information, and representation in China. She is the recipient of numerous research awards, including awards from the National Science Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and American Council of Learned Societies. Her newest research, in collaboration with Charles Chang, analyzes state management of the social media in China. Her newest book, Information for Autocrats (Cambridge University Press, 2015), examines representation in Chinese local congresses. Previous publications include Retirement of Revolutionaries in China (Princeton University Press, 1993), Corruption by Design (Harvard University Press, 2004), and Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies (edited with Allen Carlson, Mary Gallagher, and Kenneth Lieberthal, Cambridge University Press, 2010). Her articles have appeared in journals including American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, and China Quarterly. She is an award-winning teacher.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Dec 2017 12:09:37 -0500 2017-12-12T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-12T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Melanie Manion
Exhibit: Sino-American Relations and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," 1971-1972 (Sept.15-Dec. 22, 2017) (December 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43895 43895-10498355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the early 1970s, the two large countries at either end of the Pacific shaped the restless world in their own ways. China was moving full steam ahead on the Cultural Revolution. The U.S. was grappling with a series of domestic and international problems including the Vietnam War. Mired in ideological opposition, U.S.-China relations had been hostile since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Getting these Cold War foes to reconnect with each other looked like a mission impossible. Curiously, Ping-Pong emerged to play an important role in bringing U.S.-China relations to rapprochement in the early 1970s and finally to normalization in 1979.

The historically significant Ping-Pong exchanges between China and the U.S. held in 1971 and 1972, which came to be called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” (乒乓外交 pingpang waijiao) in English, were nicknamed xiaoqiu zhuandong daqiu 小球转动大球 (small ball spins the big globe) in Chinese. Unbeknownst to many, Michigan played a key role in the 1972 exchanges.

Featuring an authentic Ping-Pong-table-sized panel that details highlights of these exchanges, this exhibition commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M. Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Liangyu Fu, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Asia Library.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:49 -0500 2017-12-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-18T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Sino-American Relations and “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” 1971-1972
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-16T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Exploring Parallel Engagements in Contemporary Chinese Art World (January 17, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48726 48726-11297751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Contemporary Chinese Art has been evolving rapidly over the last few decades, and two prominent lines of engagements have emerged. The first line shows artists who challenge and confront intense socio-political situations of China; they confront global forces with individualistic artistry. The second line shows artists who attempt to construct their own artistic niches and global expressions of peace and other humanist concerns. This talk introduces these parallel lines of engagements, illustrating the ways Chinese artists discuss their art works since 1980s.

ZHANG Fang, writer and art critic/historian, is Hughes Scholar (2016-2017) at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Zhang has published quite extensively in foreign and Chinese journals introducing the China syndrome which are compounded by multi-faced social, political, economic and cultural diaspora.

*Image: Follow Me, 120x300cm, laser print, 2003, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:25:25 -0500 2018-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Follow Me
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 17, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 18, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-18T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-19T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 20, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 20, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-20T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 21, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Chinese 3 (January 22, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47665 47665-10973741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In Chinese 3, students will learn more about the Chinese characters including their history, geography, and cultural references. They will increase their Chinese
vocabulary enabling them to carry on simple conversations in Chinese.

Instructor Angela Yang retired from medical research at UM. She also taught at an Ann
Arbor Chinese school.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Mondays beginning on January 22 and running through June 25, except during the month of April.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 15 Dec 2017 12:32:28 -0500 2018-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 22, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-22T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
ISP Lecture. Interpreting Islam in China (January 22, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47385 47385-10888270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

A distinctive Chinese Islamic intellectual tradition emerged during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Chinese Muslims established an educational system, scripture hall education (jingtang jiaoyu 經堂教育), which utilized an Islamic curriculum made up of Arabic, Persian, and Chinese works. The Han Kitab, a corpus of Chinese language Islamic texts developed within this system, reinterpreted Islam through the religio-philosophical lens of Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian terminology. Several Han Kitab texts were produced by a group of self-identified “Confucian Muslim” scholars (Huiru 回儒). This presentation traces the contours of the Sino-Islamic intellectual tradition and serves as an introduction to Kristian Petersen’s book, "Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab" (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Kristian Petersen is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies and co-director of the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He specializes on two main areas of research 1) the development of Islam in China, and 2) Muslims in Cinema. He is currently working on a monograph entitled "The Cinematic Lives of Muslims." He also serves as host of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:21:50 -0500 2018-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Kristian Petersen
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Can’t Buy Me Love: Beijing’s Bid to Expand Its Soft Power (January 23, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47852 47852-11033229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Since the late 1990s, China has sought to bolster its soft power – a country’s use of culture, language and other “soft” tools aimed at making outsides feel better about its politics and motives – with mixed results. China is often feared and respected but not necessarily trusted or loved beyond its borders. Mark Magnier, a foreign correspondent based for the past two decades in Asia, will look at Beijing’s strategies and tactics moving forward as it attempts to improve its image and ease its rise as a global power.

Mark Magnier has spent the past 20 years as a foreign correspondent based in Japan, China and India for the "Los Angeles Times" and "Wall Street Journal." He’s also done various conflict assignments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, covered earthquakes and tsunamis, camped under Saddam Hussein’s highways and slept in an abandoned nunnery during the violent birth of East Timor. He is here on a U-M Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:21:07 -0500 2018-01-23T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-23T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Mark Magnier, Foreign Correspondent, U-M Knight-Wallace Fellow
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 23, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-23T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 24, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
The Glorious Life: A Journey of Spectacles (January 24, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48738 48738-11297796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Join us for the reception and an informal talk by WANG Qingsong!

WANG Qingsong, one of China’s most highly regarded contemporary artists, will present an overview of his artistic works inspired by dramatic transformations that took place inside China in the last two decades. Addressing issues like real-estate development, massive consumption, education system failure, migration as well as globalization, Wang’s works present conflicts, contradictions, and contortions in an artistic and satirical ways.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:44:21 -0500 2018-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 25, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-25T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-26T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 27, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 27, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-27T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-27T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 28, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 28, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-28T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 29, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-29T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-29T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | “Treating One’s Neighbor Like a Gully” 以鄰為壑: Yellow River Management and the Environmental Ethics of the Chinese State (January 30, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47853 47853-11033230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The ancient philosopher Mencius criticized the hydraulic specialist Bai Gui: “When dealing with floods . . . you, my sir, treat the neighboring state like a gully [by discharging water into it].” In this talk, Professor Zhang argues that the ethical choice Mencius disdained as something “detested by benevolent men” has dominated environmental management – especially management of the Yellow River – by Chinese Confucian states during the past two millennia.

Ling Zhang is Associate Professor in the History Department at Boston College. Professor Zhang received a BA in Humanities and History from Peking University and an MPhil and a PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Cambridge. She was a Ziff Environmental Fellow at Harvard University Center for the Environment and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. Her first book, The River, The Plain, and The State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 (Cambridge University Press, 2016), received the 2017 George Perkins Marsh Prize for the Best Book in Environmental History from the American Society for Environmental History. She is currently working on two book projects about political economy in middle-period China and political ecology of the Yellow River valley.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:32:40 -0500 2018-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-30T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ling Zhang, Associate Professor of History, Boston College
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 30, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-30T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Building a Career in China (January 30, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49386 49386-11453730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 4:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Come learn from CRCC Asia about what it's like to work in China and how to stand out in internship applications! Participants will receive a discount on CRCC Asia programs for attending.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:03:24 -0500 2018-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Careers / Jobs image
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 31, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-31T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-31T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 1, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-01T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Asian Languages Fair (February 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48075 48075-11177994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Are you interested in learning more about the Asian languages taught at the University of Michigan? The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures invites you to the Asian Languages Fair, featuring 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 live cultural performances and opportunities to win raffle prizes.

Students interested in studying abroad in Asia will be able to speak with a representative from the Center for Global and Intercultural Studies (CGIS). A representative from the Language Resource Center will be at the fair, as well, to share information about language-learning resources on campus.

The Asian Languages Fair will be held in the Pond Room on the first floor of the Michigan Union from 11am-3pm on Friday, February 2. We hope to see you there!

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Fair / Festival Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:00:35 -0500 2018-02-02T11:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Asian Languages and Cultures Fair / Festival flyer
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-02T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 3, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-03T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-03T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 4, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-04T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-04T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-05T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-05T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Who is the 'Common' in the 'Common Good'? Public Health, Global Health, and the Bifurcation of Service and Governance in Urban China (February 6, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48425 48425-11233235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In this talk, Dr. Mason will examine the reinvention of the Chinese public health system that took place following the SARS epidemic of 2003, and the implications of this transformation both for the health of China's population and for global health and public health systems more broadly.

Katherine A. Mason is a medical anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in China and the U.S. Her research addresses issues in medical anthropology, population health, global health, bioethics, China studies, reproductive health, and mental health. Her first book, "Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic," based on fieldwork she conducted in southeastern China on the professionalization and ethics of public health in China following the 2003 SARS epidemic, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. She is currently working on a multi-sited ethnographic field project that examines family experiences of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in the U.S. and China. She is also a core consultant on the AmeRicans’ Conceptions of Health Equity Study (ARCHES), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Mason is affiliated with Brown's Population Studies and Training Center, and the Program in Science and Technology Studies, and she has served as an adviser in the Engaged Scholars Program. Her research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, U.S. Fulbright program, and Association for Asian Studies. She has previously held positions as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar (2013-2015) and a Lecturer in the Health and Societies program at the University of Pennsylvania (2011-2013). She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 2011.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:05:44 -0500 2018-02-06T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-06T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Katherine Mason, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 6, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-06T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-06T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
On 'Bad' Chinese Food: Reflections on Sweet-and-Sour Pork (February 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49777 49777-11532466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Sweet-and-sour pork: the signature dish of contemporary American Chinese food. Sold in cheap diners, strip mall buffets, and P.F. Chang's, this dish is a staple of contemporary American life. But critics charge that this dish is bad, epitomizing everything that is wrong with American Chinese food. Greasy, sweet, and MSG-laden, sweet-and-sour pork is a distortion of "real" Chinese cooking, arguably more American than Chinese. In this talk, I will challenge current views of sweet-and-sour pork by situating this dish within a history of cross-cultural contact and exchange. Through a mouth-watering tour of early modern Chinese meat stews and fried things, I will also reconsider popular assumptions about culinary authenticity and argue that you should once again relish your sweet-and-sour pork - without shame.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:11:42 -0500 2018-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion M Brown logo
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 7, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-07T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 8, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | History as Context for the Present: A Family Story of China’s Coming of Age (February 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48862 48862-11317268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you end up on the wrong side of history, nobody writes yours. Correspondent Scott Tong of Marketplace public radio – and a 2013-14 University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow – talks about China’s long and interrupted opening to the world, told through the lives of five people across five generations in his own family. The stories are told in his new book, A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World.

He begins by pursuing the lives of relatives and ancestors whose names are hardly ever spoken at the family table. The untold stories and history help fill in an oft-ignored chapter in the China story: the contribution of mainlanders who adopted the ideas, music and literature of the outside world. Although A Village with My Name is a personal, historical work of narrative nonfiction, it provides history as context to the present. Tong, who is reporting on the current globalization backlash, will also address issues of national identity, globalization and drawbridges that many in the world are asking right now.

Scott Tong has reported from more than a dozen countries as correspondent for Marketplace, from refugee camps in east Africa to shoe factories in eastern China. He toured the oil sands of Canada and snuck into Burma. Currently he serves as correspondent for Marketplace’s Sustainability Desk, where his coverage focuses on energy, the environment, natural resources and the global economy.

In 2006, Scott opened Marketplace’s first permanent bureau in China, as Shanghai bureau chief. His first book, A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World (University of Chicago Press, 2017), is a personal, journalistic discovery of China’s long and interrupted economic opening. More than a faraway story from a long time ago, it addresses the divisive questions about globalization and drawbridges that many countries are debating today.

His reporting includes special coverage of the 2016-2017 globalization backlash; Water: The High Price of Cheap; Venezuela’s economic collapse; the triumph of the shareholder value model in the U.S. and the Price of Profits; the challenge of long-term job creation in the United States; the 2011 Japan tsunami and recovery; the 2011 famine in the Horn of Africa; and the economics of one child in China. In 2013-14, Scott was awarded the Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Scott joined Marketplace in 2004, after working as a producer and off-air reporter for the PBS NewsHour, where he produced a series of mini-documentaries from Iraq following the U.S. invasion in 2003. He’s appeared on the PBS NewsHour, the Aspen Ideas Festival and TedxFoggybottom.

A graduate of Georgetown University, Scott is a native of Poughkeepsie, New York. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife Cathy and three children. He is an acknowledged soccer dad and cycles to work at a measured pace.

Cosponsored by the U-M Knight-Wallace Program.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:50:11 -0500 2018-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Scott Tong
History of Chinese Food in America (February 9, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49778 49778-11532468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Sponsored by the Confucius Institute and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, the conference will examine the historical and contemporary connections between Chinese food in America. The participants will discuss various issues surrounding food practices and traditions in China and in America including cookeries, culinary traditions, and more.

Discussants:
Yong Chen, Professor of History, UC Irvine
Yan Liang, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Great Valley State University
Carolyn Phillips, Blogger, writer, and chef @MadameHuang
Edward Q. Wang, Professor of History, Rowan University

10 AM -12 PM Panel Discussion 1
12 PM - 1 PM Lunch (RSVP Closed)
1-2:30 PM Panel Discussion 2
2:30 - 4 PM Panel Discussion 3 (closed door session)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:35:14 -0500 2018-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium Food Conference logo
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-09T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 10, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-10T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 11, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-11T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-11T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 12, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-12T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Between Blood and Sex: The Contradictory Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on State Repression in China, 1989-2013 (February 13, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48657 48657-11265183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Do external interventions matter? Existing research has focused on the extent to which transnational efforts compel recalcitrant governments to reduce levels of domestic repression, but few have considered how such interventions might also provoke new forms of repression. Using a longitudinal study of repression against AIDS activism in China between 1989 and 2013, Professor Long will propose that transnational institutions’ provision of material resources and reshaping of organizational rules can transform a domestic repressive apparatus in specific policy areas. The intervention of transnational AIDS institutions in China not only constrained traditional violent coercion, but also generated new forms of “diplomatic repression” that inadvertently contributed to expanded mobilization for urban gay men but demobilization for others. She will conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for understanding authoritarian innovation and sustainability.

Yan Long is an Assistant Professor of International Studies and Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a cultural and organizational sociologist interested in the evolution of technocratic governance as a transnational institutional model and its impact on existing forms of domination and resistance. Yan’s current book project, "Side Effects: The Transnational Doing and Undoing of AIDS Politics in China" (under contract, Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics), concerns the transformation of China’s infectious disease control driven by the conflict between transnational AIDS institutions, the state, and local activist groups. This book stems from her dissertation that won the 2014 ASA Dissertation Award. Yan was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society after obtaining her PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:06:10 -0500 2018-02-13T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-13T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yan Long, Assistant Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 13, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-13T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-13T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 14, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-14T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-14T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Imperial Japan and the Nature of Borders in Occupied Inner Mongolia (February 15, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47716 47716-11002098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The multiethnic landscape of Inner Mongolia posed fundamental problems around governance and legibility for Japanese authorities after they invaded Northeast China in 1931. This talk examines how Japanese occupiers separated out nomadic and sedentary livelihoods along a new internal border through population transfers and rural development. Here, Japanese imperialism transformed an earlier policy of assimilation into a blueprint for establishing zones of ethnic autonomy. Inner Mongolia later became the first of these zones in 1947. Instead of only seeing the origins of Communist rule as forged in the fires of war against imperialism, this talk points to the significance of the Japanese occupation in shaping the ethnic and ecological bounds of modern China.

Sakura Christmas is an Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. A scholar of modern Japan, she focuses on the history of imperialism, the environment, and the borderlands. She is currently revising her first book, "Nomadic Borderlands: Imperial Japan and the Origins of Ethnic Autonomy in China".

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:35:10 -0500 2018-02-15T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Imperial Japan and the Nature of Borders in Occupied Inner Mongolia
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-15T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-16T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Guest Recital: Carolyn Chen, guqin w/ electronics *RE-SCHEDULED from 2/15* (February 16, 2018 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46929 46929-10702999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 8:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Carolyn Chen will perform a concert on the Chinese guqin combining traditional music, improvisation with digital field recordings, and video. Her works reconfigure the everyday to retune habits of our ears through sound, text, light, image, and movement. For over a decade, her study of the guqin, the 7-string zither traditionally played for private meditation in nature, has informed her thinking on listening in social spaces. Her work has been presented in 23 countries and described by The New York Times as “the evening’s most consistently alluring … a quiet but lush meditation.”

Co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan.

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Performance Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:15:31 -0500 2018-02-16T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Guest Recital: Carolyn Chen, guqin w/ electronics *RE-SCHEDULED from 2/15*
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 17, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-17T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 18, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-18T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-19T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Moonwalking in Beijing: Michael Jackson, Piliwu, and the Origins of Chinese Hip-Hop (February 20, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48551 48551-11251646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the latter half of the 1980s, a popular dance craze known as "piliwu" 霹雳舞 swept urban communities across China. Incorporating two new styles of US urban popular dance--New York-based b-boying/b-girling or "breaking" and California-based popping and locking-- piliwu was China's first localized movement of hip-hop culture, which reflected new circuits of intercultural exchange between China and the United States during the first decade of China's Reform Era. Analyzing the dance choreography recorded in a 1988 Chinese film, Rock Youth 摇滚青年 (dir. Tian Zhangzhuang), together with media reports and testimonials from members of China's piliwu generation, this talk reconstructs the history of the piliwu movement, arguing for the central influence of U.S. pop culture icon Michael Jackson, the growth of China's underground commercial dance (zou xue 走穴) economy, and the agency of dancers' bodies in transnational movements of media culture.

Emily Wilcox is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She is a specialist in Chinese performance culture, especially dance, and has published articles in both English and Chinese in "Asian Theatre Journal," "TDR: The Drama Review," "The Journal of Asian Studies," "Wudao Pinglun (The Dance Review)," and other venues. Dr. Wilcox co-curated the 2017 exhibition "Chinese Dance: National Movements in a Revolutionary Age, 1945-1965" that was on display in the UM Hatcher Library last spring, and she is the author of a forthcoming book on the history of concert dance in the People's Republic of China.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:29:38 -0500 2018-02-20T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-20T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Emily Wilcox, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (February 20, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-02-20T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-20T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
The Encyclopedic “I”: Zhang Han (1510 – 1593) Views the World from Retirement (February 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50248 50248-11690346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Zhang Han (张瀚) had an official career that had spanned forty years and taken him all over the empire, from the Nanjing shipyards to Fujian, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and the capital. He was a man who knew many things. After retiring to Hangzhou, he tells us, “I spent long days at the Pine Window, writing things out as the brush goes, partly to examine into myself, and partly to pass down to those who come after me.” The result was his Dream Talk by the Pine Window (松窗梦语). There was a history of such works going back at least to the Song; they are generally categorized as biji or “brush records,” a genre so broad in name as to be almost useless, and they are usually miscellanies with no sense of organization. Zhang Han’s Pine Window, however, begins with a geographic overview of the empire based on his travels as an official, and runs neatly through the universe down to his dreams and examination of self. It thus is both a personal memoir and a comprehensive encyclopedia of knowledge. What does that suggest is worth passing down from a life? Is an official what he knows? If a memoir becomes an encyclopedia, does its writer disappear? And where does this lie in the Ming dynasty landscape of organized knowledge?

About the speaker:

Philip Kafalas is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the College, and a member of the faculty advisory committee for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues. Kafalas published In Limpid Dream: Nostalgia and Zhang Dai’s Reminiscences of the Ming (2007). His teaching and research interests center on classical and pre-modern Chinese literature, as well as advanced modern Chinese language.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:40:18 -0500 2018-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Philip Kafalas Image
A Tale of Two Cities (February 21, 2018 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49888 49888-11566247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 4:15pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Inspired by a drawing (see attached) created by Chinese realist painter Wang Shikuo (1911-1973), LRCCS distinguished artist Wang Qingsong will recreate the image as a photo shoot with a host of community and university volunteers at Highland Park on February 17th. The following week on February 21, Prof. Tang Xiaobing, Helmut F. Stern Professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Comparative Literature, with LRCCS Postodoctoral Fellow Jeffrey Javed will engage in a conversation with the artist on the staging, meaning and historical background of the work. Prof. Tang's latest book "Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts", Cambridge University Press, 2015., discusses "The Bloodstained Shirt" in detail. Dr. Javed will highlight the political and social dynamics of mass violence in the early Maoist period.

Wang Qingsong's exhibit, "Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006" has been extended through February 23 and will be the site of the artist/faculty conversation on Feb. 21

In the neighborhoods of Detroit, extensive vacancy and abandonment have led to new ways that people remake disinvested space—ruins voyeurism gives way to residents, artists, and entrepreneurs curating spaces in their own vision and as template for the future of the city. By comparing Beijing and Detroit, Qingsong seeks to mix these two cities’ stories together, creating a new overtone for the ongoing challenges of global societies. This project contributes to the hope for another narrative to city building, one that uncovers traces of the past, its erasures and demolitions, while engaging with the community through artistic practice to construct a new, vibrant vision for urban regeneration.

WANG Qingsong is an artist, educator and curator based in Beijing whose large format photographic works have been exhibited across the globe at major museums, art centers, and galleries www.wangqingsong.com. He has created a series of works showing the history of once glorious cities-the lost memories found behind broken walls, deserted warehouses and closed doors. Just as Beijing, an ancient city brimming with history and tradition, has experienced the disruption and destruction of rapid modernism, so Qingsong finds Detroit grappling with a similar history as it reconfigures itself for the future.

With support from U-M International Institute, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Taubman College, Living Arts, LSA Residential College, Screen Arts & Cultures, Museum of Art (UMMA), Center for Educational Outreach, U-M Detroit Center, Focus Hope-Detroit, College for Creative Studies-Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:49:28 -0500 2018-02-21T16:15:00-05:00 2018-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Wang Shikuo, The Bloodstained Shirt, 1959
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Evoking Enlightenment: The Rise of Poetic Language in Early Tantric Ritual (March 6, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47859 47859-11033305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

With the advent of the tantras came an unprecedented interest in the imagination, aesthetic experience, and poetic expression. At key moments in tantric ritual practice, poetic language began to be used to evoke a taste of awakening. The shift is seen most clearly in early tantric ritual manuals, the documents of lived Buddhist practice, examples of which will be drawn from the Dunhuang archive and analyzed for the kinds of literary moves they make.

Jacob Dalton, Khyentse Foundation Distinguished Professor in Tibetan Buddhism, University of California, Berkeley, holds joint appointments in the departments of East Asian Languages and Culture and South and Southeast Asian Studies, for which he currently serves as chair. After working for three years (2002-05) as a researcher with the International Dunhuang Project at the British Library, he taught at Yale University (2005-2008) before moving to Berkeley. He works on tantric ritual, Nyingma Religious history, paleography, and the Dunhuang manuscripts. He is the author of "The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Tantra" (Columbia University Press, 2016), and co-author of "Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library" (Brill, 2006). He is currently working on a study of tantric ritual in the Dunhuang Manuscripts.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:08:21 -0500 2018-03-06T11:30:00-05:00 2018-03-06T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Jacob P. Dalton, Khyentse Foundation Distinguished University Professor in Tibetan Buddhism, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Chair, South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Performing Bandung: China’s Dance Diplomacy with India, Indonesia, and Burma, 1953-1962 (March 7, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50405 50405-11733280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

While dance was a common element of international diplomacy activities around the world during the 1950s and early 1960s, scholars have only recently begun to focus attention on this topic, especially as it concerns relationships forged beyond those of the Cold War superpowers. Using previously unexamined historical materials such as rare photographs and performance programs, dancer biographies, autobiographies and personal interviews, unpublished institutional histories, and contemporary periodicals, this article demonstrates not only that dance was an integral part of China’s inter-Asian cultural exchange between 1953 and 1962, but also that the PRC developed a distinct approach to dance diplomacy. Through a series of exchanges with India, Indonesia, and Burma, China’s foreign ministers and dancers developed and refined a method of dance diplomacy in which the primary goal was to learn from, rather than export to, these neighboring countries. This approach harnessed the affective power of embodied aesthetic culture to literally “perform” Bandung ideals, namely, cooperation and mutual respect among Asian nations and an anti-imperialist cultural stance. Through the establishment in 1962 of the Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble, the PRC institutionalized this model of dance diplomacy, expanding it to include the entire Third World. Bandung-era dance diplomacy initiatives of the 1950s and early 1960s not only supported important new international alliances and political movements, but also asserted China’s self-identity as part of the East in a way that challenged Eurocentric ideals previously entrenched in China’s domestic dance field.

About the speaker:

Emily Wilcox is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She is a specialist in Chinese performance culture, especially dance. Dr. Wilcox co-curated the 2017 exhibition “Chinese Dance: National Movements in a Revolutionary Age, 1945-1965.” She is the author of numerous articles and has written a forthcoming book tracing the history of concert dance in the People’s Republic of China.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:01:14 -0500 2018-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2018-03-07T13:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Performing_Bandang
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Between Arming and Disarming: The Culture and Politics of Private Gun Ownership in Modern China (March 13, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48514 48514-11243804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, private gun ownership became surprisingly common. Civilian ownership of guns not only contributed to persistent social violence, but also transformed power structurers in local society and accelerated local militarization, changing the balance of power between state and society. The decision that each political entity made about how to deal with armed civilians had profound effects in the national political arena.

Lei Duan is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Liebethal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. His main research interest is social violence and state power in China. His current book project focuses on private gun ownership and its sociocultural and political implications in modern China from 1860 to 1949. He received his PhD in 2017 from the Department of History at Syracuse University, obtained an MA in History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2011, and his BA from Nankai University in 2008.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:42:11 -0500 2018-03-13T11:30:00-04:00 2018-03-13T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Lei Duan, Postdoctoral Scholar, U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
CWPS Faculty Lecture Series (March 13, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48778 48778-11306109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

During the latter half of the 1980s, a popular dance craze known as "piliwu" 霹雳舞 swept urban communities across China. Incorporating two new styles of U.S. urban popular dance--New York-based b-boying/b-girling or "breaking" and California-based popping and locking-- piliwu was China's first localized movement of hip-hop culture, which reflected new circuits of intercultural exchange between China and the United States during the first decade of China's Reform Era. Analyzing the dance choreography recorded in a 1988 Chinese film, Rock Youth 摇滚青年 (dir. Tian Zhangzhuang), together with media reports and testimonials from members of China's piliwu generation, this talk reconstructs the history of the piliwu movement, arguing for the central influence of U.S. pop culture icon Michael Jackson, the growth of China's underground commercial dance (zou xue 走穴) economy, and the agency of dancers' bodies in transnational movements of media culture.

The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week 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 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:24:09 -0500 2018-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 2018-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion FLS flyer
CLIFF 2018: Beyond the Scope, 22nd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50054 50054-11630743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote: "Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today"
Cristina Rivera Garza
Friday, March 16, 2018 at 5:30pm
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room

Professor Cristina Rivera Garza is the Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. Situated at the intersection of literature, literary theory, history, and creative writing, many of Rivera Garza’s recent publications (Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación, 2013) directly address the connections between writing, subjectivity, and community-based literary projects in the neoliberal age.

Friday, March 16
Michigan Union, Pond Room

10: 00am - 10: 30am Breakfast

10: 30am - 10: 45am Opening Remarks

10: 45am - 12: 15pm
Panel #1 - Beyond the Performance
Jieyi Yan - “The White Serpent Tale in Western and Eastern Literary Context: Its Adaptation, Transformation and Evolution”
Ann Tran - “Multicultural Comedy on YouTube: Anjelah Johnson’s Viral Nail Salon in Public Fora”
Anita Singh - “Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilization through Community Theatre”

Faculty Respondent: Daniel Herwitz

12:15-1:15: Lunch

1: 15pm - 2: 45pm
Panel #2 - Beyond the Nation
David Ortega - “Álvaro Enrigue: Destabilizing Forces in the Quest for Origins in Vidas perpendiculares (2008) and El cementerio de las sillas (2002)”
Mung Ting Chung - “Re-defining Overseas Chinese Through “Historical” Stories:
A Study of the ​Chinese Student Weekly​ in the Early Cold War Era”
James Nichols - “An Impossible Bildungsroman: Exile and Transnational Subjectivity in Antonio Skármeta's No Pasó Nada”

Faculty Respondent: Antoine Traisnel

2: 45pm - 3: 00pm: Coffee Break

3: 00pm - 4: 30pm
Panel #3 - Beyond the Body
Joe Zappa - “Form and the Body in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83: For a Broader Affect Theory”
Hannah Doermann - “Beyond Diversity in Young Adult Fiction: Neoliberal Depoliticization of Social Movements in Hannah Moskowitz’s Not Otherwise Specified”
Martín Ruiz - “The Stranger and the Crack: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth”

Faculty Respondent: Silke-Maria Weineck

4: 30pm - 5: 30pm: Reception - The Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union

5: 30pm - 7: 00pm: Keynote - Cristina Rivera Garza
“Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today”

Saturday, March 17
Rackham, West Conference Room

9: 00am - 9: 30am: Breakfast

9: 30am - 11: 00am
Panel #4 - Beyond the Neoliberal
Michael R. Fischer, Jr. - “Excluded from the Beginning: Neoliberalism and White Supremacy in Modern Discourse”
Graham Liddell - “Arab Migration Narratives in the Neoliberal Age: Rethinking Trans/Nationalism”
Kwanyin, Lee (Pearl) - “Subversive Complicity: The Hunger Games and Shingeki no Kyojin against and under the Neoliberal Logic of Competition”

Faculty Respondent: Peggy McCracken

11: 00am - 11: 15am: Coffee Break

11: 15am - 12: 45pm
Panel #5 - Beyond the Document
Shalmali Jadhav - “Touching the Untouchable: Deciphering the Untranslatable in Fandry”
Sarah Chanski - “Re-Membered Landscapes: Palestinian Resistance in Laila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi”
Dzovinar Derderian - “Journey to the Archives: The Logics and Affect of Ottoman and Armenian Archives”
(Raphael Seka) - “Postcolonial Narrative and Identity Negotiation in Nuruddin Farah’s A Naked Needle and Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup”

Faculty Respondent: Ruth Tsoffar

12: 45pm - 2: 00pm: Lunch

2: 00pm - 3: 00pm: The Iliac Crest Reading and Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza

3: 15pm - 4: 45pm
Panel #6 – Beyond the Boundary
Raya Naamneh - "Language and the Postcolonial Self in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavelcade"
Grace Mahoney - “Notes from a Flying Nun: Vertigo and the Boundaries of Subjectivity in Shvarts’s Works and Days of Lavinia”
Duygu Ergun - “Coexisting in Space: The Battle of Algiers”

Faculty Respondent: Yopie Prins

4: 45pm - 5: 00pm: Closing Remarks

The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is an annual conference sponsored by the graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature. CLIFF is designed to promote increased awareness of research being conducted in various languages and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:30:37 -0500 2018-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Photo
US-China Relations and China's Expanding International Presence (March 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50571 50571-11805189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: International Policy Center

Join us for a Public Keynote Address by Daniel Russel, organized as a highlight of the China's Impact in the International Development Arena Symposium.

Diplomat in Residence and Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute
Daniel Russel joined the Asia Society Policy Institute as Diplomat in Residence and Senior Fellow in April 2017. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service at the U.S. Department of State, he most recently served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Prior to his appointment as Assistant Secretary on July 12, 2013, Mr. Russel served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Asian Affairs. During his tenure there, he helped formulate President Obama’s strategic rebalance to the Asia Pacific region, including efforts to strengthen alliances, deepen U.S. engagement with multilateral organizations, and expand cooperation with emerging powers in the region.

Prior to joining the NSC in January of 2009, he served as Director of the Office of Japanese Affairs and had assignments as U.S. Consul General in Osaka-Kobe, Japan (2005-2008); Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands (2002-2005); Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus (1999-2002); Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering (1997-99); Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1995-96); Political Section Unit Chief at U.S. Embassy Seoul, Republic of Korea (1992-95); Political Advisor to the Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Ambassador Pickering (1989-92); Vice Consul in Osaka and Branch Office Manager in Nagoya, Japan (1987-89); and Assistant to the Ambassador to Japan, former Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (1985-87).

In 1996, Mr. Russel was awarded the State Department's Una Chapman Cox Fellowship sabbatical and authored America’s Place in the World, a book published by Georgetown University. Before joining the Foreign Service, he was manager for an international firm in New York City.

Mr. Russel was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and University College, University of London, UK.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:41:25 -0500 2018-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) International Policy Center Lecture / Discussion Daniel R. Russel
CLIFF 2018: Beyond the Scope, 22nd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 17, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50054 50054-11630744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 17, 2018 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote: "Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today"
Cristina Rivera Garza
Friday, March 16, 2018 at 5:30pm
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room

Professor Cristina Rivera Garza is the Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. Situated at the intersection of literature, literary theory, history, and creative writing, many of Rivera Garza’s recent publications (Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación, 2013) directly address the connections between writing, subjectivity, and community-based literary projects in the neoliberal age.

Friday, March 16
Michigan Union, Pond Room

10: 00am - 10: 30am Breakfast

10: 30am - 10: 45am Opening Remarks

10: 45am - 12: 15pm
Panel #1 - Beyond the Performance
Jieyi Yan - “The White Serpent Tale in Western and Eastern Literary Context: Its Adaptation, Transformation and Evolution”
Ann Tran - “Multicultural Comedy on YouTube: Anjelah Johnson’s Viral Nail Salon in Public Fora”
Anita Singh - “Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilization through Community Theatre”

Faculty Respondent: Daniel Herwitz

12:15-1:15: Lunch

1: 15pm - 2: 45pm
Panel #2 - Beyond the Nation
David Ortega - “Álvaro Enrigue: Destabilizing Forces in the Quest for Origins in Vidas perpendiculares (2008) and El cementerio de las sillas (2002)”
Mung Ting Chung - “Re-defining Overseas Chinese Through “Historical” Stories:
A Study of the ​Chinese Student Weekly​ in the Early Cold War Era”
James Nichols - “An Impossible Bildungsroman: Exile and Transnational Subjectivity in Antonio Skármeta's No Pasó Nada”

Faculty Respondent: Antoine Traisnel

2: 45pm - 3: 00pm: Coffee Break

3: 00pm - 4: 30pm
Panel #3 - Beyond the Body
Joe Zappa - “Form and the Body in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83: For a Broader Affect Theory”
Hannah Doermann - “Beyond Diversity in Young Adult Fiction: Neoliberal Depoliticization of Social Movements in Hannah Moskowitz’s Not Otherwise Specified”
Martín Ruiz - “The Stranger and the Crack: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth”

Faculty Respondent: Silke-Maria Weineck

4: 30pm - 5: 30pm: Reception - The Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union

5: 30pm - 7: 00pm: Keynote - Cristina Rivera Garza
“Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today”

Saturday, March 17
Rackham, West Conference Room

9: 00am - 9: 30am: Breakfast

9: 30am - 11: 00am
Panel #4 - Beyond the Neoliberal
Michael R. Fischer, Jr. - “Excluded from the Beginning: Neoliberalism and White Supremacy in Modern Discourse”
Graham Liddell - “Arab Migration Narratives in the Neoliberal Age: Rethinking Trans/Nationalism”
Kwanyin, Lee (Pearl) - “Subversive Complicity: The Hunger Games and Shingeki no Kyojin against and under the Neoliberal Logic of Competition”

Faculty Respondent: Peggy McCracken

11: 00am - 11: 15am: Coffee Break

11: 15am - 12: 45pm
Panel #5 - Beyond the Document
Shalmali Jadhav - “Touching the Untouchable: Deciphering the Untranslatable in Fandry”
Sarah Chanski - “Re-Membered Landscapes: Palestinian Resistance in Laila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi”
Dzovinar Derderian - “Journey to the Archives: The Logics and Affect of Ottoman and Armenian Archives”
(Raphael Seka) - “Postcolonial Narrative and Identity Negotiation in Nuruddin Farah’s A Naked Needle and Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup”

Faculty Respondent: Ruth Tsoffar

12: 45pm - 2: 00pm: Lunch

2: 00pm - 3: 00pm: The Iliac Crest Reading and Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza

3: 15pm - 4: 45pm
Panel #6 – Beyond the Boundary
Raya Naamneh - "Language and the Postcolonial Self in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavelcade"
Grace Mahoney - “Notes from a Flying Nun: Vertigo and the Boundaries of Subjectivity in Shvarts’s Works and Days of Lavinia”
Duygu Ergun - “Coexisting in Space: The Battle of Algiers”

Faculty Respondent: Yopie Prins

4: 45pm - 5: 00pm: Closing Remarks

The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is an annual conference sponsored by the graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature. CLIFF is designed to promote increased awareness of research being conducted in various languages and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:30:37 -0500 2018-03-17T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Photo
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Resilience or Vulnerability? The Mixed Fate of Local Urbanizing Communities in China (March 20, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48517 48517-11243806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The urbanization process in China reveals the ultimate struggle between two forms of socialist public property of the land (State and Collective ownership), and at the same time, a competition for the spoils of industrialization and urbanization between the state and the collectives (the villages).

Drawing mainly on cases in the peri-urban area of the Pearl River Delta, this talk will discuss aspects of China’s rapid urbanization. It will explore strategies that village collectives have put in place to defend their economic, social and cultural autonomy in the face of the desire of the state to both claim control of ever greater portions of the country’s collective land, and to urbanize as much as possible of the population.

In this process, creative forms of local organization and institutional innovation in China have developed, and some villages are thriving. The new strengths of the communities, however, also reveal new forms of vulnerability of the local communities.

Luigi Tomba is Director of the University of Sydney China Studies Centre. Before joining the Centre in 2017 he was for 15 years at the Australian National University, most recently as the Associate Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World. His work has always been concerned with cities and with the consequences of urbanization. His most recent book The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China, was awarded the Association of Asian Studies 2016 Joseph Levenson Prize as best book on Post-1900 China.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:25:27 -0500 2018-03-20T11:30:00-04:00 2018-03-20T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Luigi Tomba, Director, University of Sydney China Studies Centre
China's Soft Power: Understanding Beijing's Growing Worldwide Influence (March 20, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50417 50417-11736250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

China’s move to change the constitution allowing President Xi Jinping to remain in power could have a major impact on China’s global influence. A panel of Knight-Wallace international journalists examines China’s growing clout and how this power is being deployed around the world, with implications for media, academia and the entertainment industry. Is Beijing already influencing what we read and watch or are fears of its influence overblown?

The Eisendrath Symposium honors Charles R. Eisendrath, former director of Wallace House, and his lifelong commitment to international journalism.

Free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:48:46 -0500 2018-03-20T15:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T16:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Knight-Wallace Journalists: Louisa Lim '14, Mark Magnier '18 and Dayo Aiyetan '18
Asian Languages and Cultures Info Session (March 23, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50459 50459-11771164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 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.

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 develop two vital qualities: a deep local 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, Tibetan, Urdu, and Vietnamese).

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at https://lsa.umich.edu/asian/undergraduates/informationsessions.html. We hope to see you there!

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Other Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:26:04 -0500 2018-03-23T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other flyer
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Qing Water Systems: A Multi-Environmental Perspective (March 27, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47860 47860-11033306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Qing dynasty recognized that its empire’s multi-ecological conditions of water instability – in territories as diverse as the watery lower Yangzi delta and the arid Zunghar basin – precluded a single administrative solution applicable throughout its domains and would only be successful in the unification of Inner Asia and China proper to the extent Qing administration could implement this recognition in the form of regionally-sensitive policies. In this respect, a sustainable Qing empire was an exercise in adaptation to both human and ecological (i.e., “environmental”) conditions and not simply a struggle between competing human interests, often characterized in multi-ethnic terms.

David A. Bello received his PhD from the University of Southern California and is currently Elizabeth Lewis Otey Professor of East Asian Studies in the Department of History at Washington and Lee University. His main research interest is the environmental and borderland history of China’s last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1912). His latest book, "Across Forest, Steppe and Mountain: Environment, Identity and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands," was published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press in its “Studies in Environment and History” series.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Mar 2018 09:01:51 -0400 2018-03-27T11:30:00-04:00 2018-03-27T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion David Bello, Elizabeth Lewis Otey Professor of East Asian Studies, Department of History, Washington and Lee University
Writing Roman History in China in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (March 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50920 50920-11927728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

In the first half of the twentieth-century, the writing of Roman History in a semi-independent China was dominated by the Chinese agenda of national revival and modernization rather than a scholarly desire to investigate Roman history for its own sake. This, however, did not detract from the complexity with which the Chinese reformists, thinkers, and writers engaged with Rome. It is precisely this complexity that this paper will try to unfold. In particular, Ancient Rome, as a negative exemplum, loomed large in the Chinese discourses on a range of key issues including the role of religion in nation building, the (re)formation of "national character", and the relationship between unification/centralization and local autonomy. To a great extent, Ancient Rome functioned as a site where evaluation of China’s past, concern over China’s fate, search for historical lessons, and a close attention to contemporary European affairs and their historical precedents were intricately coalesced.

Jinyu Liu is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University, and also Distinguished Guest Professor at Shanghai Normal University (2014-2020). Her research interests include social relations in Roman cities, the non-elite in the Roman Empire, Latin epigraphy, the reception of Graeco-Roman classics in China, as well as translating classical texts in a global context. As the Principal Investigator of “Translating the Complete Corpus of Ovid’s Poetry into Chinese with Commentaries", a multi-year project sponsored by a Chinese National Social Science Foundation Major Grant (2015-2020), she is collaborating with more than a dozen scholars from four countries to translate the complete works of Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE), arguably the most popular poet of ancient Rome, into Chinese for the first time.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:35:20 -0400 2018-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Roman History
Migrant Stories (March 31, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51402 51402-12098137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 31, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Tricontinental Solidarity Network

The event will feature performances in the form of poetry, storytelling and spoken word by women of color students from UM. We aim to create a space where race, migration and sexuality form the overarching themes of the performances.
Our keynote speaker is Professor Ather Zia, anthropologist and poet, who works on Kashmir and teaches at the University of Northern Colorado.

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Performance Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:41:33 -0400 2018-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Tricontinental Solidarity Network Performance Migrant Stories Event details!
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Gender, Gambling, and the State in the Militarized Islands between China and Taiwan (April 3, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47861 47861-11035886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

When Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan in 1949, he still kept under occupation two archipelagos near China -- Kinmen and Matsu -- and transformed them into military islands (1949-92). When scholars study these islands, they mostly do so from the perspective of the Mao-Chiang conflict or global geopolitics. These islands are thus considered as the products of the Communist-Nationalist rivalry or confrontations of the Cold War. This talk, instead, aims to analyze this history from the perspective of the island society and culture, in particular, the islanders' gender relations and gambling habits. Dr. Lin will start with the period before the army arrived, discuss the population's experience of militarization during 1949-92, and indicate how gender and gambling culture can shed new light on our understanding of this history.

Wei-ping Lin received her PhD in Anthropology from Cambridge University. She joined the National Taiwan University in 1999, where she is a professor. She is affiliated with the Harvard-Yenching Institute during 2017-18. Her research concerns Chinese popular religion, including topics related to material culture, spirit mediums, and urban religious transformation. She is the author of "Materializing Magic Power: Chinese Popular Religion in Villages and Cities" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2015). During the year at Harvard, she will be writing a book manuscript about the role of imagination in the military outposts between China and Taiwan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:51:12 -0400 2018-04-03T11:30:00-04:00 2018-04-03T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Wei-ping Lin, Professor of Anthropology, National Taiwan University
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Chasing Spirits Out of the Script: The Politics of Early Socialist Theatrical Adaptation (April 10, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48601 48601-11254306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Theatrical adaptation frequently plays with the traces of earlier incarnations both from the script and from stage performance, but as often as these ghosts are deliberately evoked, their presence reveals the influences of other unspoken politics in the world of re-makes. In the "xiqu" (Chinese opera) play, Chasing the Fish Spirit, a dense series of rapid re-makes at the end of the 1950s put the complex interplay of these politics into full view, pitting not just the play’s downtrodden against the wealthy or mortals against immortals, but fame against obscurity, city against country, high culture against low, and perhaps most riskily, ideological critique against ideological correctness. The nexus of these different tensions forms the off-stage drama of how this once-closeted play from rural Hunan eventually made it through multiple adaptations onto silver screens for export to Hong Kong and abroad.

Anne Rebull is a postdoctoral fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. Her research interests focus on political movements to reform indigenous Chinese theater in the modern era, especially the periods before and after the founding of the People’s Republic. Her book project focuses on the practices of theatrical and filmic adaptation that were part of the reform movement in the early Socialist era, and frames them within greater political debates on theatrical performance and representation. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2017.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:20:33 -0500 2018-04-10T11:30:00-04:00 2018-04-10T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Anne Rebull, Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
LRCCS Alumni Panel | US-China Subnational Relations: Interaction and Investment (April 13, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51538 51538-12135395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

LRCCS is pleased to announce an expert panel on a very timely topic. This panel will discuss China and U.S. relations at the subnational level, focusing on the interactions and investments between Chinese entities and U.S. states and cities. Chinese foreign direct investment in the U.S. has grown steadily over the last two decades, and many U.S. states actively court Chinese investment to supplement local economic growth.

This panel will address these trends in the current political climate, featuring three experts on the subject. Mercy Kuo (Chinese Studies MA, '94) is the President of the Washington State China Relations Council. Brian Connors is the Executive Director of the Michigan-China Innovation Center. Damien Ma (Chinese Studies MA, '06 is a Fellow and Associate Director of the Think Tank at the Paulson Institute. The panel will be moderated by Professor Yuen Yuen Ang, Department of Political Science at U-M.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:13:55 -0400 2018-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T15:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion US-China Subnational Relations: Interaction and Investment
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Mirage of Development: The Sichuan Earthquake, One Decade Later (April 17, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47862 47862-11035887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In today’s talk, Professor Sorace argues that the Communist Party is discursively path dependent on specific narratives of legitimation, which constrain its ability to govern and be responsive to people’s needs. In particular, he will discuss the post-2008 Sichuan earthquake reconstruction of Yingxiu township, which was reconstructed to perform the Party’s benevolence, with scant consideration for its impact on the lives of local residents.

Christian Sorace is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colorado College and a former postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at the Australian National University. He is the author of "Shaken Authority: China’s Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake" published in May 2017 with Cornell University Press. His articles have appeared in "Critical Inquiry," "Comparative Politics," "The China Journal," and "The China Quarterly" among other journals. He is also the editor of the Arts and Culture section of a new open-access quarterly journal called "Made in China." His new research focuses on comparative urbanization and land-rights in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:59:58 -0400 2018-04-17T11:30:00-04:00 2018-04-17T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Christian Sorace, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Colorado College
Touchdown China (April 18, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51574 51574-12167552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Curious about what you need to know about everyday life and work culture when you land in China? Come to learn about the basics of living and working in China!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Apr 2018 10:05:14 -0400 2018-04-18T13:00:00-04:00 2018-04-18T14:30:00-04:00 North Quad LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar North Quad
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | The Great Buddha+ (June 2, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52463 52463-12793951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Taiwan, 104 Minutes, Drama/Black Comedy, Minnan with Chinese & English Subtitles, Not Rated

The most anticipated Taiwanese film of the year is an extension of HUANG HSIN-YAO's 2014 award-winning short, The Great Buddha (the + in the feature's title was satirically added by the director as a reference to corporate naming trends.). Pickle (CRES CHUANG), a night security guard at a bronze statue factory, and Belly Button (BAMBOO CHEN), a recyclables collector, are best friends. While trying to kill time on the long nights spent in the security room, Belly Button suggests that they view the dash-camera footage of Pickle's rich boss, Kevin (LEON DAI). Watching the promiscuous meetings Kevin has with various women, they witness something they never should have known about. These images are like wormholes, taking Pickle, Belly Button, and the viewer from one universe into another, from the colourless existence of the poor and forgotten to the illuminated world of the powerful. -Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/the-great-buddha/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:11:44 -0400 2018-06-02T13:00:00-04:00 2018-06-02T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening The Great Buddha+
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | Angels Wear White (June 2, 2018 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52464 52464-12793955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 2, 2018 6:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China, 107 Minutes, Drama, Chinese with English subtitles, Not Rated

Ann Arbor, Award Winner, Chinese, Drama, Female Director, Films, Foreign Narrative, MT, ST

Working the graveyard shift at the reception desk of a sleepy maritime motel promises little excitement for teenage Mia — until one night she becomes the sole witness to an assault on two schoolgirls by a middle-aged man. Fearing the consequences of speaking up, Mia decides to keep quiet on the matter. Twelve-year-old victim Wen, however, quickly realizes that the violence she endured that night is only the first in a litany of troubles. With seemingly nowhere to run, Mia and Wen find themselves caught in an ever-tightening net that they alone can free themselves from. This second feature from the brilliant Chinese writer-director VIVIAN QU whisks us away to a small seaside village where tranquility is torn asunder by a terrible crime. A modern noir focused on complex female characters, Angels Wear White possesses a distinctive slow burn that may prove to be Qu’s signature. – Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/angels-wear-white/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M.

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:49:01 -0400 2018-06-02T18:15:00-04:00 2018-06-02T20:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening Angels Wear White
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | Angels Wear White (June 3, 2018 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52464 52464-12793956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 3, 2018 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China, 107 Minutes, Drama, Chinese with English subtitles, Not Rated

Ann Arbor, Award Winner, Chinese, Drama, Female Director, Films, Foreign Narrative, MT, ST

Working the graveyard shift at the reception desk of a sleepy maritime motel promises little excitement for teenage Mia — until one night she becomes the sole witness to an assault on two schoolgirls by a middle-aged man. Fearing the consequences of speaking up, Mia decides to keep quiet on the matter. Twelve-year-old victim Wen, however, quickly realizes that the violence she endured that night is only the first in a litany of troubles. With seemingly nowhere to run, Mia and Wen find themselves caught in an ever-tightening net that they alone can free themselves from. This second feature from the brilliant Chinese writer-director VIVIAN QU whisks us away to a small seaside village where tranquility is torn asunder by a terrible crime. A modern noir focused on complex female characters, Angels Wear White possesses a distinctive slow burn that may prove to be Qu’s signature. – Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/angels-wear-white/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M.

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:49:01 -0400 2018-06-03T12:15:00-04:00 2018-06-03T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening Angels Wear White
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | The Great Buddha+ (June 3, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52463 52463-12793952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 3, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Taiwan, 104 Minutes, Drama/Black Comedy, Minnan with Chinese & English Subtitles, Not Rated

The most anticipated Taiwanese film of the year is an extension of HUANG HSIN-YAO's 2014 award-winning short, The Great Buddha (the + in the feature's title was satirically added by the director as a reference to corporate naming trends.). Pickle (CRES CHUANG), a night security guard at a bronze statue factory, and Belly Button (BAMBOO CHEN), a recyclables collector, are best friends. While trying to kill time on the long nights spent in the security room, Belly Button suggests that they view the dash-camera footage of Pickle's rich boss, Kevin (LEON DAI). Watching the promiscuous meetings Kevin has with various women, they witness something they never should have known about. These images are like wormholes, taking Pickle, Belly Button, and the viewer from one universe into another, from the colourless existence of the poor and forgotten to the illuminated world of the powerful. -Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/the-great-buddha/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:11:44 -0400 2018-06-03T16:00:00-04:00 2018-06-03T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening The Great Buddha+
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | Angels Wear White (June 5, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52464 52464-12793957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China, 107 Minutes, Drama, Chinese with English subtitles, Not Rated

Ann Arbor, Award Winner, Chinese, Drama, Female Director, Films, Foreign Narrative, MT, ST

Working the graveyard shift at the reception desk of a sleepy maritime motel promises little excitement for teenage Mia — until one night she becomes the sole witness to an assault on two schoolgirls by a middle-aged man. Fearing the consequences of speaking up, Mia decides to keep quiet on the matter. Twelve-year-old victim Wen, however, quickly realizes that the violence she endured that night is only the first in a litany of troubles. With seemingly nowhere to run, Mia and Wen find themselves caught in an ever-tightening net that they alone can free themselves from. This second feature from the brilliant Chinese writer-director VIVIAN QU whisks us away to a small seaside village where tranquility is torn asunder by a terrible crime. A modern noir focused on complex female characters, Angels Wear White possesses a distinctive slow burn that may prove to be Qu’s signature. – Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/angels-wear-white/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M.

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:49:01 -0400 2018-06-05T16:00:00-04:00 2018-06-05T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening Angels Wear White
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | The Great Buddha+ (June 5, 2018 9:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52463 52463-12793953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 9:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Taiwan, 104 Minutes, Drama/Black Comedy, Minnan with Chinese & English Subtitles, Not Rated

The most anticipated Taiwanese film of the year is an extension of HUANG HSIN-YAO's 2014 award-winning short, The Great Buddha (the + in the feature's title was satirically added by the director as a reference to corporate naming trends.). Pickle (CRES CHUANG), a night security guard at a bronze statue factory, and Belly Button (BAMBOO CHEN), a recyclables collector, are best friends. While trying to kill time on the long nights spent in the security room, Belly Button suggests that they view the dash-camera footage of Pickle's rich boss, Kevin (LEON DAI). Watching the promiscuous meetings Kevin has with various women, they witness something they never should have known about. These images are like wormholes, taking Pickle, Belly Button, and the viewer from one universe into another, from the colourless existence of the poor and forgotten to the illuminated world of the powerful. -Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/the-great-buddha/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:11:44 -0400 2018-06-05T21:30:00-04:00 2018-06-05T23:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening The Great Buddha+
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | Crosscurrent (June 6, 2018 6:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52465 52465-12793959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 6:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China. 116 minutes. Drama. Mandarin with subtitles. Not Rated.

A young cargo ship captain named Gao Chun (Qin Hao) pilots his boat up the Yangtze River and ponders the recent death of his father in this allegorical drama from director Yang Chao. During the trip, he encounters numerous symbols representing China’s past, present and future, including a mysterious woman who is present at every port along the way. The woman, he soon learns, is some sort of magical being who seems to grow younger as the ship inches closer to the source of the Yangtze.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/crosscurrent/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M.

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:58:57 -0400 2018-06-06T18:45:00-04:00 2018-06-06T20:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening Crosscurrent
LRCCS Cinetopia Film Screening | Angels Wear White (June 8, 2018 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52464 52464-12793958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 8, 2018 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China, 107 Minutes, Drama, Chinese with English subtitles, Not Rated

Ann Arbor, Award Winner, Chinese, Drama, Female Director, Films, Foreign Narrative, MT, ST

Working the graveyard shift at the reception desk of a sleepy maritime motel promises little excitement for teenage Mia — until one night she becomes the sole witness to an assault on two schoolgirls by a middle-aged man. Fearing the consequences of speaking up, Mia decides to keep quiet on the matter. Twelve-year-old victim Wen, however, quickly realizes that the violence she endured that night is only the first in a litany of troubles. With seemingly nowhere to run, Mia and Wen find themselves caught in an ever-tightening net that they alone can free themselves from. This second feature from the brilliant Chinese writer-director VIVIAN QU whisks us away to a small seaside village where tranquility is torn asunder by a terrible crime. A modern noir focused on complex female characters, Angels Wear White possesses a distinctive slow burn that may prove to be Qu’s signature. – Toronto International Film Festival, 2017.

Purchase tickets ahead here: http://www.cinetopiafestival.org/show/angels-wear-white/

Sponsored by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at U-M.

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Film Screening Wed, 30 May 2018 08:49:01 -0400 2018-06-08T19:15:00-04:00 2018-06-08T21:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening Angels Wear White
Chinese 4: OLLI Study Group (August 15, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53804 53804-13463695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In Chinese 4, study group participants will learn more about the Chinese characters including their history, geography, and cultural references. Participants will increase their Chinese vocabulary, enabling them to carry on simple conversations in Chinese.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet Mondays, 1-3, from October 15 – December 17. Instructor Angela Yang retired from medical research at UM. She also taught at an Ann Arbor Chinese school.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 15 Aug 2018 18:34:04 -0400 2018-08-15T18:00:00-04:00 2018-08-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group