Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. LRCCS Conference Keynote Address | Getting China Right in Research and in Policy (June 3, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95284 95284-21789120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 3, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Central Campus Classroom Building
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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

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

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

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

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

Panelists:

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

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

Shannon Tiezzi , Editor in Chief of The Diplomat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:32:15 -0400 2022-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Sangseraima Ujeed, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | How (and Why) Confucians Turned into Kantians (October 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96517 96517-21792614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Anglophone interpretations of Ruism most often take inspiration from Aristotle or Dewey. Yet the 20th century New Ruists in Hong Kong and Taiwan said little about either and focused much more on Kant. This talk examines what they saw in Kantian philosophy, and how it influenced their interpretation of Ruist thought.

David Elstein is Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies at SUNY New Paltz. His research focuses on contemporary Confucian philosophy. He is author of "Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy" (Routledge 2014), editor of "Dao Companion to Contemporary Confucian Philosophy" (Springer 2020), and translator of "The Chinese Liberal Spirit: Selected Writings of Xu Fuguan" (SUNY Press 2022). In addition, he has published articles in "Philosophy East and West," "Dao," "Contemporary Political Theory," and "European Journal of Political Theory."

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:15:28 -0400 2022-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion David Elstein, Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies, SUNY New Paltz
LRCCS Special Event | A Recital of Qin Music (Chinese Seven-Stringed Zither) *Water and Mist over Rivers Xiao and Xiang* (October 6, 2022 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99284 99284-21797810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 6, 2022 8:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

On October 6, 2022, the LRCCS will present a recital by Professor Shuishan Yu of Northeastern University in Boston, a leading scholar of Chinese art history and a master qin performer based in the US. He will perform a number of qin masterpieces, including the "Water and Mist over Rivers Xiao and Xiang" ("Xiaoxiang shuiyun") that is attributed to Guo Chuwang (1190?-1260).

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

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Performance Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:24:16 -0400 2022-10-06T20:00:00-04:00 2022-10-06T21:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Performance LRCCS Special Event | A Recital of Qin Music (Chinese Seven-Stringed Zither) *Water and Mist over Rivers Xiao and Xiang*
The global implications of the war in Ukraine (October 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98210 98210-21795722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

The Weiser Diplomacy Center at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the American Academy of Diplomacy will co-host a discussion with four former ambassadors on the global implications of the war in Ukraine. Ambassador Susan Elliott will consider the war’s implications for NATO and the future of Europe, including whether NATO’s new unity and strength will hold and what the future security architecture of Europe will look like. Ambassador Robert Cekuta will discuss implications for Central Asia and Russia’s “near abroad,” discussing how the war relates to Russia’s imperial history, what it means for the former states of the Soviet Union, and the economic and energy questions it raises. Ambassador Richard Boucher will discuss implications for Asia, including China’s position in this evolving world and how the war in Ukraine will change China’s calculus for Taiwan. Ambassador Ronald Neumann will moderate the panel and provide a perspective on implications for the Middle East.

This event will be live streamed.
From the speakers' bios:

Ambassador (ret.) Susan M. Elliott has held a variety of leadership positions at the U.S. Department of State, including Civilian Deputy and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander of the United States European Command, Deputy Executive Secretary and Director of the Executive Secretariat Staff for former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs.

Ambassador (ret.) Richard A. Boucher has served in numerous leadership positions at the U.S. Department of State, including Ambassador to Cyprus, U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, and Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia. In his later career he became the longest serving spokesman in the history of the State Department, serving six Secretaries of State. After retiring from the State Department Ambassador Boucher served as Deputy Secretary-General for Global Affairs at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.

Ambassador (ret.) Robert Cekuta served in the U.S. Department of State as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy, Sanctions, and Commodities, and U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan. He established the Economic Policy Analysis and Public Diplomacy Office in the State Department’s Bureau for Economic and Business Affairs, and served on the boards of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the International Energy Agency.

Ambassador (ret.) Ronald Neumann is President of the American Academy of Diplomacy, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, and former Ambassador to Algeria, Bahrain and Afghanistan. Ambassador Neumann served in Baghdad with the Coalition Provisional Authority and as liaison with the Multinational Command. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near East Affairs and Director of the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Sep 2022 08:34:51 -0400 2022-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Weiser Diplomacy Center Lecture / Discussion American Academy of Diplomacy
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Moral Theory and Early Confucianism: Toward a Unified Account (October 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96541 96541-21792869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Early Confucian ethical and political thought has provoked a remarkable range of readings over the last two decades, especially regarding the fundamental structure of Confucian ethics. This talk attempts to sort through these debates, especially regarding role ethics and virtue ethics, but with some attention to other interpretations, in the service of sketching the outlines of a general and synthetic account of early Confucian ethical theory, which can at the same time account for the areas of debate within and beyond the Ru social group.

Aaron Stalnaker is professor and chair of Religious Studies at Indiana University, with courtesy appointments in Philosophy and East Asian Languages and Cultures. He has written two book-length studies in comparative ethics: "Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority" (Oxford University Press, 2020) and "Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine" (Georgetown University Press, 2006). He has also published articles in a number of venues, including the "Journal of Religious Ethics," "Soundings," "Philosophy East and West," "Dao," and "International Philosophical Quarterly." He founded the Comparative Religious Ethics group within the American Academy of Religion, and is currently Associate Editor of the "Journal of Religious Ethics" and co-chair of the Confucian Traditions Unit at the AAR.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:10:59 -0400 2022-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Aaron Stalnaker, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, Indiana University
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China’s Local Government Debt: A Ticking Time Bomb? (November 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96542 96542-21792870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Will local government debt derail decades of China’s economic growth? Much of China’s remarkable growth has been fueled by local government issued debt that funded the massive infrastructure overhaul throughout the country. Local governments successfully relied on land finance and issued bonds to borrow and grow. But now, with the dramatic economic slowdown, is the merry-go-round seizing up? Difficult headwinds such as the Global Financial Crisis, the real estate sector collapse, the cooling of foreign investment interest, an unfavorable geopolitical environment and continuing COVID lockdowns, all beg the question: Do local governments have enough cash, and/or assets to cover their ballooning debt payments?

In her talk, Professor Oi will examine and explain the history China’s local government debt problem and outline why local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) now face serious systemic liquidity risk. What are the tools the Chinese government can deploy to manage this situation in a way that maintains stability? And what are the risks inherent in these approaches?

Jean C. Oi is the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She directs the China Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at FSI and is the founding Lee Shau Kee Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Oi has published extensively on political economy and the process of reform in China. Recent books include "Fateful Decisions: Choices that will Shape China's Future," co-edited with Tom Fingar (2020); "Zouping Revisited: Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County," co-edited with Steven Goldstein (2018); and "Challenges in the Process of China's Urbanization," co-edited with Karen Eggleston and Yiming Wang (2017). Recent articles include “Firms as Revenue Safety Net: Political Connections and Returns to the Chinese State,” with Chaohua Han and Xiaojun Li, "China Quarterly," forthcoming. “China’s Local Government Debt: The Grand Bargain,” with Adam Liu and Yi Zhang, "The China Journal," volume 87, number 1, January 2022. “China’s Challenges: Now it Gets Much Harder,” co-authored with Thomas Finger, "The Washington Quarterly," Vol. 43 (Spring 2020.

Her current research continues to explore central-local relations, including local government debt and fiscal politics broadly defined. She is beginning a project on China’s Belt and Road Initiative.


Zoom registration link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EvTxvuTfTHW07E5wnkpR1w

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:04:11 -0400 2022-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Jean Oi, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
China Ongoing Perspectives | CHOP presents a film screening of *Tyrus* (2015) (November 2, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100183 100183-21799317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

U-M FILM SERIES co-sponsored by the Asia Library and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Admission is free and open to the public

Film screening (73 minutes) and Q&A with discussant Yan Zhong

Note: This is an in-person event. Please complete the ResponsiBLUE Screening before your arrival. Light refreshments will be provided.

People worldwide have seen the Disney animated classic Bambi and been deeply moved by the aesthetic renderings of nature and wildlife in the film. The pioneering artist behind this work is Tyrus Wong (1910-2016), one of the most gifted artists from the golden age of Disney animation. The quiet beauty of his Eastern-influenced paintings caught the eye of Walt Disney, who made Wong the inspirational sketch artist for Bambi.

Filmmaker Pamela Tom spotlights this seminal, but heretofore under-credited figure, showing how Tyrus overcame a life of poverty and racism to become a celebrated painter who once exhibited with Picasso and Matisse, became a Hollywood sketch artist, and has been recognized since 2001 as a “Disney Legend.” Previously unseen art and interviews, movie clips, and archival footage illustrate how his unique style – melding Chinese calligraphic and landscape influences with contemporary Western art – impacted many aspects of American art in the twentieth century.

Discussant: Yan Zhong
Yan Zhong is a lecturer at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She has published multiple novels, essays, and books in Chinese and worked for four years as a literary editor at the Changchun Film Studio in China. Her research interests include Chinese pop culture (music and film), and she is currently working on a book project introducing the history and technical achievements of Chinese animation films.

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Film Screening Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:29:47 -0400 2022-11-02T18:30:00-04:00 2022-11-02T20:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening China Ongoing Perspectives ~ CHOP presents a film screening of Tyrus (2015)
Webinar on Chinese animation films, presented by Yan Zhong (November 3, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100202 100202-21799336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Register for the Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/wMxeb

In this follow-up talk to the November 2 film screening, Yan Zhong brings her personal knowledge from the projection room of Chinese film studios to her work as a writer and literary editor on film and animation. She will introduce the story of Chinese style animation, one different from the form’s Western counterpart, by focusing on traditional practices of ink wash painting and papercutting. Yan will explain how the difficult and costly technical aspects of ink-wash painting animation restricted this practice to the fine arts, while computer technology, faster and more economical, has led to a modern revolution in animation style and production. She will also discuss five award-winning Chinese 2D ink-wash animations and offer teaching suggestions for bringing the art of animation to life in the classroom.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:37:31 -0400 2022-11-03T18:30:00-04:00 2022-11-03T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Webinar on Chinese animation films, presented by Yan Zhong
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Anatomy of a Regional Civil War: Guangxi, 1967-1968 (November 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96543 96543-21792871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the violent early years of China’s Cultural Revolution, the province of Guangxi experienced by far the largest death toll of any comparable region. Why? One explanation posits a process of collective killings focused on rural households categorized as class enemies by the regime. This view draws parallels with genocidal intergroup violence in Bosnia, Rwanda, and similar settings. New evidence from classified investigations conducted in China in the 1980s reveals the extent to which the killings were part of a province-wide counter-insurgency campaign carried out by village militia. The unusually high death tolls generated by organized effort that resembled the massacres of communists and other leftists coordinated by Indonesia’s army in 1965.

Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University, where he is also a Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His recent publications include "Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution" (Harvard 2019) and (with Dong Guoqiang) "A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China" (Princeton, 2021). A book related to this talk will be published by Stanford University Press in 2023: "Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution in China’s Southern Periphery."

Zoom registration link:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Qn9gbehbRc6pilEqss1SZw

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:13:23 -0400 2022-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Andrew G. Walder, Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Chinese Lives of “Internet Finance”: From Technological Innovations to Ponzi Schemes (November 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96544 96544-21792872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In this talk, Dr. Rao will trace how China’s “internet finance” industry, represented by thousands of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending platforms, developed from government-supported “financial innovations” to criminalized Ponzi schemes that ruined the life’s savings of millions. He will unravel this economic process through the stories of ordinary investors and borrowers drawn from 20 months of ethnographic study, and offer an anthropological angle to understand the happening of a financial, social, and moral crisis.

Yichen Rao is a postdoctoral researcher at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. As an anthropologist, he studies the rapid development of contemporary China through the challenges digital technologies have imposed on human society. Dr. Rao has written ethnographies about China’s controversial internet addiction treatment camps, internet finance platforms, and the 996 overwork issues in the IT industry. He published in journals like "Economic Anthropology" and "History of Psychology." His paper "Dreaming like a Market" on China's P2P lending industry was awarded the Schneider Prize Honorable Mention by the American Anthropological Association.

Zoom registration link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VdCMd2jtQG6CHbxsI4xC8g

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:14:00 -0400 2022-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yichen Rao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
The National Committee on US-China Relations Presents | CHINA Town Hall - Local Connections, National Reflections (November 16, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101174 101174-21800905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Join communities across the United States in a national conversation on China.

7:00pm: Webcast
8:00pm: Panel Discussion

Please join us for an on-site webcast presentation by Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., former US Ambassador to Russia, China and Singapore, followed by a local panel discussion.

Register to attend here: https://myumi.ch/y9enX

Panelists include Jan Berris, Vice President of the National Committee for US-China Relations, John Ciorciari, U-M Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Weiser Diplomacy Center, and Ann Chih Lin, U-M Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.

This event is co-sponsored by the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York, the Weiser Diplomacy Center in the Gerald R. Ford School for Public Policy, and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies of the U-M International Institute.
Free and Open to the Public.

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Presentation Fri, 11 Nov 2022 09:40:56 -0500 2022-11-16T19:00:00-05:00 2022-11-16T21:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Presentation Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Former US Ambassador
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Gender of the Operatic Voice: From Li Yu 李漁 (1611-1680) to Xu Dachun 徐大椿 (1693-1771) (November 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96545 96545-21792873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk focuses on two important prescriptive manuals for training household singer-actors, one by Li Yu (1671) and one by Xu Dachun (1748) to ask how and why the singing voice was conceptualized as having a gender in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Chinese discourse on Kunqu opera. Dr. Zeitlin’s talk will attempt to chart a historical change in vocal assumptions from the 1670s to the 1740s, which takes into account the major shifts in performing norms and conventions that occurred during this period: the reopening of public urban theaters by 1700 and the Yongzheng era reforms that removed female entertainers from the imperial court.

Judith T. Zeitlin is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. Her many publications related to Chinese opera, visual culture, and music include "Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture," co-edited with Yuhang Li (2014) and "The Voice as Something More: Essays Toward Materiality," co-edited with Martha Feldman (2019). She is currently completing a book on the culture of musical entertainment in early modern China, which focuses on voice, text, and instrument.


Zoom registration link:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fFXGCnJwTc2VxzAHCN6OnA

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:14:41 -0400 2022-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Judith Zeitlin, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago
China and the Global human rights system (November 30, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101661 101661-21802326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

In recent years, China’s human rights practices have been the subject of mounting international attention and concern. Crackdowns on protesters, the situation in Xinjiang, and other developments have raised questions about international actors’ willingness and ability to address human rights issues within China. This virtual panel will examine China’s relationship with the global human rights system. Three noted experts will share insights drawn from academic study, civil society engagement, and diplomatic practice. They will discuss how China advances its objectives relating to human rights within international forums, examining how China promotes its ideas and seeks to shape the institutional design of bodies such as the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Security Council, and the Chinese-led South-South Forum on Human Rights. They will analyze how China has sought to constrain these and other key human rights institutions and mechanisms and the practical effects of its efforts on human rights behavior, and share insights about the challenges and opportunities for diplomacy and for civil society engagement to address China’s human rights practices and those of other authoritarian states.

From the speakers' bios

Panelists
Sarah M. Brooks is Program Director for the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), a leading non-governmental organization committed to promoting and protecting human rights. She provides strategic guidance for ISHR programs, leads its work to support Chinese human rights defenders, and engages the EU and European states on foreign policy and human rights. Previously she worked as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. She is a Ford School alumna with Master’s degrees in Public Policy and Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan.

Rosemary Foot is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations. She is also an associate of Oxford’s China Centre and an Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony’s College, where she served as Professor of International Relations and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow in the International Relations of East Asia. She has published widely on topics including China-U.S. relations, Chinese foreign policy, international politics in Asia, and international human rights and human protection regimes.

Rana Siu Inboden is a senior fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin. She consults for several nongovernmental organizations and conducts research on international human rights, Chinese foreign policy, international human rights and democracy projects, and the United Nations. She previously served in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, managing its Human Rights and Democracy Fund China program and promoting U.S. human rights and democracy policy in China and North Korea. She also served at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, and in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, where she covered U.S.-China relations.

Moderator
John D. Ciorciari is the associate dean for research and policy engagement at the Ford School, where he is a professor and directs the Weiser Diplomacy Center and International Policy Center.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:48:45 -0500 2022-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Diplomacy Center Livestream / Virtual
China and the Global human rights system (December 5, 2022 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101661 101661-21802193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 5, 2022 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

In recent years, China’s human rights practices have been the subject of mounting international attention and concern. Crackdowns on protesters, the situation in Xinjiang, and other developments have raised questions about international actors’ willingness and ability to address human rights issues within China. This virtual panel will examine China’s relationship with the global human rights system. Three noted experts will share insights drawn from academic study, civil society engagement, and diplomatic practice. They will discuss how China advances its objectives relating to human rights within international forums, examining how China promotes its ideas and seeks to shape the institutional design of bodies such as the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Security Council, and the Chinese-led South-South Forum on Human Rights. They will analyze how China has sought to constrain these and other key human rights institutions and mechanisms and the practical effects of its efforts on human rights behavior, and share insights about the challenges and opportunities for diplomacy and for civil society engagement to address China’s human rights practices and those of other authoritarian states.

From the speakers' bios

Panelists
Sarah M. Brooks is Program Director for the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), a leading non-governmental organization committed to promoting and protecting human rights. She provides strategic guidance for ISHR programs, leads its work to support Chinese human rights defenders, and engages the EU and European states on foreign policy and human rights. Previously she worked as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. She is a Ford School alumna with Master’s degrees in Public Policy and Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan.

Rosemary Foot is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations. She is also an associate of Oxford’s China Centre and an Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony’s College, where she served as Professor of International Relations and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow in the International Relations of East Asia. She has published widely on topics including China-U.S. relations, Chinese foreign policy, international politics in Asia, and international human rights and human protection regimes.

Rana Siu Inboden is a senior fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin. She consults for several nongovernmental organizations and conducts research on international human rights, Chinese foreign policy, international human rights and democracy projects, and the United Nations. She previously served in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, managing its Human Rights and Democracy Fund China program and promoting U.S. human rights and democracy policy in China and North Korea. She also served at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, and in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, where she covered U.S.-China relations.

Moderator
John D. Ciorciari is the associate dean for research and policy engagement at the Ford School, where he is a professor and directs the Weiser Diplomacy Center and International Policy Center.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:48:45 -0500 2022-12-05T11:30:00-05:00 2022-12-05T12:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Diplomacy Center Livestream / Virtual
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Redemption, Raids, and Restitution: The “Tail” of Private Ownership in the Early People’s Republic of China (December 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96546 96546-21792874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

What Karl Marx termed the “expropriation of the expropriators” and PLA Marshal Lin Biao referred to as “getting property” was key Chinese Communist Party’s industrial strategy and essential to building socialism. In the People’s Republic of China, state control over industry and commerce was achieved in the mid-1950s through a policy of redemption; a controversial solution that preserved a residue of private ownership within the socialist system and determined the fraught relationship between the government and former business owners through the Cultural Revolution and into the early years of Reform and Opening.

Puck Engman is Assistant Professor at the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. In the academic year 2022-2023, he is a faculty fellow with the UC Berkeley Social Sciences Matrix. He is currently working on a book that examines how the Chinese state defined and attempted to solve the problem of capitalists following the takeover of private enterprises and the integration of the management in a socialist system. He is the co-editor of "Victims, Perpetrators and the Role of Law in Maoist China: A Case-Study Approach" (De Gruyter 2018, with Daniel Leese) and author of “What Right to Property when Rebellion is Justified? Revolution and Restitution in Shanghai” (in "Justice after Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People’s Republic of China," edited by Daniel Leese and Amanda Shuman, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press).

Zoom registration link:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FK4Jxg6zQQS36iqtT78wUg

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:15:18 -0400 2022-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Puck Engman, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
East Asian Migration and Borders: Stories of Identity and Connection (December 10, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101581 101581-21801539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 10, 2022 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Registration required here: https://bit.ly/umicheastasia22

The media is filled with global stories of migration that portray the complex experiences of migrants and the reactions of their final destination countries. This workshop will explore the historical, cultural, and contemporary political borders within China, Japan, and Korea and how conceptions of identity from this region travel the world through art and technology. Featuring lectures from prominent scholars and teacher-based activities, participants will gain insights into shifting cultural identities and establishing a sense of belonging across and within borders.

What does it mean to “cross the line?” How can stories of emigres and sojourners of East Asia change the way we teach world history, geography, government, and the arts?

Registration is required to attend any portion of this workshop. Complete the Google Form by midnight on Thursday, December 1st.

REGISTRATION AND PARTICIPATION IS FREE

This workshop is developed by the U-M TVI East Asia National Resource Center #GoGlobalEd

Various lectures, pedagogical framing, and activities featuring:

Ann Chih Lin
University of Michigan, Professor of Chinese Studies; Director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; Associate Professor of Public Policy

Catherine Ryu
Michigan State University, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature & Culture; Director of the Japanese Studies Program

Ryan Masaaki Yokota
University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow

Endi Poskovic
University of Michigan, Professor, School of Art & Design

Darrin Stockdil
University of Michigan, Instructional and Program Design Coordinator, CEDER

*Q&A sessions and collaborative discussions included*

SCECH CREDIT AVAILABLE FOR BOTH IN-PERSON AND ASYNCHRONOUS LECTURES!

COFFEE AND LUNCH PROVIDED!
Participants of the in-person workshop will be eligible for a BOOKS ON EAST ASIA GIVEAWAY!

Suggestions for PRE-WORKSHOP LECTURES will be
provided via U-M Canvas!

Registration required here: https://bit.ly/umicheastasia22

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:48:46 -0500 2022-12-10T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Workshop / Seminar 2022 Professional Development Workshop for K-14 Educators
Improving health through data science, computable knowledge and learning systems (December 16, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102012 102012-21803293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 16, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UMMS Global REACH

How can artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computable biomedical knowledge be leveraged to improve health and health education systems? Join colleagues from Michigan Medicine and Peking University Health Science Center for an overview of relevant research at each institution and an exploration of potential data science collaborations.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:39:27 -0500 2022-12-16T07:00:00-05:00 2022-12-16T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UMMS Global REACH Livestream / Virtual Speakers
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | A Confucian Theory of Vulnerability (January 24, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102848 102848-21805236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/1AjNm

Meaningful things are often vulnerable to powers beyond our control. Coming to terms with vulnerability is a part of life. This presentation will bring Confucian thought to bear on the topic of vulnerability. More specifically, it will spell out the value of vulnerability in activities such as learning (especially learning to be moral), caring for other people (and being cared for by other people), and trusting others (and being trusted).

Michael D. K. Ing (PhD, Harvard 2011) is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of "The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism" (Oxford University Press, 2012) and "The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought" (Oxford University Press, 2017). More recently, he has published several articles about Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) thought.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:39:12 -0500 2023-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Michael D.K. Ing, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Forbidden City at War: China's Imperial Art Collections in the Second World War, and Their Extraordinary Journey to Safety (January 31, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102850 102850-21805239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/gRJWR

In 1933, as Japanese armies ravaged China, a small band of museum curators began packing the art collections of the Forbidden City for evacuation to safety. Adam Brookes' book talk will describe how the curators shepherded a quarter of a million artworks and texts thousands of miles across war torn China to preserve them from bombing and plunder, and how the collections were split between China and Taiwan.

Adam Brookes grew up in the UK and studied Chinese at SOAS, University of London. For many years he was a reporter for BBC News and served as correspondent in Jakarta, Beijing and Washington DC. His latest book is “Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City”, to be published by Simon and Schuster/Atria in February 2023.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:44:32 -0500 2023-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Adam Brookes, Author and Journalist
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Making a Buddhist State: Productivity as a Political Value in Early Modern Tibet (February 7, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102854 102854-21805243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/m72AZ

In this talk, Dr. MacCormack will share some examples from his research on late seventeenth-century Tibet, in the interest of broaching more abstract questions about the values and goals of political rule in this era. His aim is to explore how the voluminous texts and magisterial works that issued from Tibet’s political center might illuminate broader sociocultural trends in early modern Tibet. He will suggest that one of the defining features of political action in this era was the emphasis placed on material and intellectual productivity. This emphasis resonated with core ideals of political rule that found articulation in Buddhist cosmological terms. Situating Tibetan texts and works in this way may give us purchase on the larger question of just what it means to speak of this political project as a “Buddhist state.”

Ian MacCormack is the Khyentse Lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches courses on religion and Asian studies. His research focuses on Tibetan intellectual and cultural history, especially intersections of religion and politics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:26:29 -0500 2023-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ian MacCormack, Khyentse Lecturer in Buddhist Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Sensing Noise and Aural Politics under the Chinese Kuomintang in Taiwan (February 14, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104264 104264-21808766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note that Professor Hsieh's talk will be in-person only.

In this talk, Dr. Hsieh examines the political discourse and auditory experience of noise under the Kuomintang (KMT) regime in 1970s-1980s Taiwan. Drawing on news articles, KMT archives, and legislative records, she analyzes distinct transformations of noise—first as a moralizing discourse in the creation of a Chinese citizenry, then as an object in the destabilization of political power, and finally as an arena for environmental rights—-that tethered the embodied sensibilities of citizens to the KMT's aspirations for democratic reform. She concludes by arguing that through noise, hearing is made political: the ability for Taiwanese to hear noise, and what that meant at the time for the legitimacy of the KMT, positions noise at the center of Taiwan’s democratic liberalization.

Jennifer Hsieh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. She investigates sensory practices in institutional and technological settings, with an emphasis on urban East Asia. Her work has appeared in "American Ethnologist," "Hau," and "Sound Studies Journal," and she has contributed chapters to the edited volumes "Resounding Taiwan: Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant Island" (2022 Routledge) and "Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality" (2020, Oxford University Press). She has held research fellowships at the Fairbank Center at Harvard, the Vossius Center at University of Amsterdam, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:28:02 -0500 2023-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Jennifer C. Hsieh, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation (February 21, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103091 103091-21806092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/W2x9X

Increasingly, scholars believe that China’s relative economic decline in the 18th and 19th centuries was related to its weak fiscal institutions and limited revenue. This talk argues that this fiscal weakness was fundamentally ideological in nature. Belief systems created through a confluence of traditional political ethics and the trauma of dynastic change imposed unusually deep and powerful constraints on fiscal policymaking and institutions throughout the final 250 years of China’s imperial history.

Taisu Zhang is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and works on comparative legal and economic history, private law theory, and contemporary Chinese law and politics. "The Ideological Foundations of the Qing Fiscal State," is his second book in a planned trilogy on the cultural and institutional origins of modern economic divergence.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:56:30 -0500 2023-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Taisu Zhang, Professor of Law, Yale University
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions (March 7, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103258 103258-21806686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you would like to attend this event via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/zwVeZ

China’s urbanization has evolved amid the interconnected forces of historical legacies, contemporary state interventions, and human and ecological conditions. Embracing this notion, a new collection of work in the book "China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions" questions the conventional imagination centering cities in the West. This presentation highlights key conclusions and theoretical touchstones that have emerged. In addition to outlining new perspectives on the impacts of China’s urbanization, Professor Wu will point to the transitions underway as well as the gravity of the progress, particularly in the context of demographic shifts and climate change.

Weiping Wu is Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Urban Planning programs in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Trained in architecture and urban planning, Professor Wu has focused her research and teaching on understanding urban dynamics in developing countries in general and China in particular. She is an internationally acclaimed urban and planning scholar working on global urbanization with a specific expertise in issues of migration, housing, and infrastructure of Chinese cities. Currently, she is the chair of Planning Accreditation Board (PAB), which accredits university programs in North America leading to bachelor’s and master’s degrees in urban and regional planning. She was the President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in 2017-2019, a consortium of university-based programs offering credentials in urban and regional planning. In addition to "China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions," published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in September 2022, other recent books include "The Chinese City" (2020, second edition) and "The Sage Handbook on Contemporary China" (2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:43:31 -0500 2023-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2023-03-07T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Xunzi and Aristotle on Freedom (March 21, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103259 103259-21806687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/dk2Z6

In the end, a truly "global perspective" should consider how Chinese thinking, taken seriously, might help us revise our default presumptions and priorities in today's EuroAmerica. Dr. Nylan’s talk will register two main points: (1) that the early thinkers Xunzi and Aristotle both urge due attention to the situation at hand (communal as much as individual, institutional as much as volitional), unlike many modern philosophers intent upon devising universal ethical principles for individual autonomous rational beings; and (2) that these two early thinkers excel in leading us to consider how best to avoid becoming enslaved by people and things, with their kind of self-rule (being "lord over oneself") an attainment that fundamentally depends upon long training by a range of social institutions. Her talk will also suggest that Xunzi's worldview suits the exigencies of the contemporary world somewhat better than Aristotle's perspective.

Michael Nylan 戴梅可 generally writes in three disciplines: the history of the early empires in China (475 BC-AD 316), philosophy, and art and archaeology. Of late, she has been focusing on the sociopolitical context for local communities in China; on aesthetic theories and material culture; and cosmological belief; and on gender history and the history of such emotions as "daring" and "salutary fear" (aka prudential caution). She is finishing up two books, a mammoth translation of the Han-era Documents classic and a book tentatively titled "The Four Fathers of History" (on Herodotus and Thucydides, Sima Qian and Ban Gu). Her comparative interests have been highlighted in such books as "Chang'an 26 BCE: an Augustan Age in Rome" and "The Chinese Pleasure Book," as well as in numerous essays.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:47:51 -0500 2023-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Michael Nylan, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts (March 28, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103260 103260-21806688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/1Aj8p

In this talk, Professor Michelson will present key findings from his new book of the same name. His analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials in all 252 basic-level courts in two Chinese provinces, Henan and Zhejiang, reveals routine and egregious violations of China's own laws upholding the freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women's physical security. Domestic violence allegations, even when fully supported by legally admissible evidence, do not move the needle even one iota toward either divorce or, when judges grant divorces, child custody orders against abusers.

Ethan Michelson is the James and Noriko Gines Department Chair in East Asian Languages and Cultures as well as Professor of Sociology and Law at Indiana University Bloomington, where he has been teaching courses on law and society, law and authoritarianism, and contemporary Chinese society since 2003.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:51:38 -0500 2023-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ethan Michelson, James and Noriko Gines Department Chair, East Asia Languages and Cultures, Professor of Sociology and Law, Indiana University, Bloomington
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Michelangelo Antonioni, Tourist Snapshots, and the Politics of the “Backward Scene” 落后镜头 in 1970s China (April 4, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103262 103262-21806689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/m72mg

This talk examines how China’s late-Cultural Revolution era campaign against Michelangelo Antonioni’s documentary film "Chung kuo/Cina" spilled over into stricter management of foreign tourist photography and production of new forms of tourist literature by state publishers as China’s tourism market expanded in the 1970s. Examining how notions of China’s “backwardness” implicated photographic practices on the ground, this case study illuminates how government officials regulated tourist photography, how those regulations were understood by foreign tourists, and how guides and ordinary citizens entered into the visual discourse of tourism on their own terms.

Gavin Healy is a postdoctoral fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. He completed his PhD at Columbia University in May 2021, and was a postdoctoral fellow there in the 2021-22 academic year. His current monograph project, “The Political and Cultural Economy of Sightseeing: Foreign Tourism in the ‘New China’ (1949-1978),” examines how personnel within China’s state tourism bureaucracy struggled to balance the use of tourism as a form of political, historical, and cultural representation with the demands of developing a revenue-generating service industry in a socialist economy.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:54:51 -0500 2023-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Gavin Healy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Papereality, Judicial Archives, and the Politics of Justice in Late Imperial China (April 11, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103263 103263-21806690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/4rn9E

Through close examination of case studies, this talk will explore how serious criminal cases were adjudicated and reviewed, how the Qing imperial government’s Confucian ideal and ideology of justice were constructed and sustained, and for those purposes, how judicial archives were created and curated in late imperial China. It will demonstrate the dynamics, tensions, and complexities in the imperial governance and judicial administration of Qing China (1644-1911).

Li Chen is currently Associate Professor of Chinese History and Law at the Department of History and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto in Canada. He received his PhD in Chinese history from Columbia University and JD from the University of Illinois (UIUC). His research focuses on the intersections of law, politics, and culture in both Chinese and international history since the early 16th century. Besides other publications including two edited volumes and a forthcoming Chinese book, his first English monograph, "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics" (Columbia University Press, 2016), received the honorable mention for the Peter Gonville Stein Book Prize of the American Society for Legal History in 2017 and received the Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Chinese studies from the Association for Asian Studies in 2018. He has since been working on several book projects on late imperial Chinese legal culture and judicial practices.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:59:03 -0500 2023-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2023-04-11T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Li Chen, Associate Professor of Chinese History and Law, University of Toronto