Modern China Seminar (University Seminar No. 443)
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2009:
September 10: Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College. "Comparing Rulership and Identity Ascription, Qing and Ottoman."
Discussant - Karen Barkey, Columbia University.
October 8: Melissa Macauley, Northwestern University. "Qingxiang: The Transnational Repercussions of Rural Pacification in Southeast Coastal China, 1869-1891."
Discussant – Helen Siu, Yale University.
November 12: Adam McKeown, Columbia University. "The Social Life of Chinese Labor."
Discussant – Janaki Bakhle, Columbia University.
December 10: Yinghong Cheng, Delaware State University. “Mao's China and the 'Singapore Story.'"
Discussant – Guobin Yang, Columbia University.
2010:
February 11: Martin Dimitrov, Dartmouth University. "Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China."
Discussant - Andrew Nathan, Columbia University
March 11: Pär Cassel, University of Michigan. "Getting Away with Manslaughter: The Vagaries of Justice in Maritime Courts in Late
Nineteenth Century China and Japan."
Discussant - Madeleine Zelin, Columbia University.
April 8: Alexander Cook, University of California, Berkeley. "Chinese Uhuru: A Maoist Reading of the Congo Crisis."
Discussant - Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University.
May 6: David Porter, University of Michigan. "Of Poetry and Pottery: Gendered Utopias in Transcultural Context."
Discussant - Lydia Liu, Columbia University.
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