Modern China Seminar (University Seminar No. 443)

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2007:

·       September 6: Susan Naquin, Princeton University, "Religion and Material Culture in a Small City: Shou-zhou 寿州, Anhui."
      Discussant - Dorothy Ko, Columbia University.

 

·       October 11: Ching Kwan Lee, University of Michigan, “Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt.”

                              Discussant – Charles Tilly, Columbia University.

 

·       November 8: Pierre-Etienne Will, Collége de France, “The 1911 Generation: Xi'an 1905-1930.”

                                    Discussant – Edward Rhoads, History Department, UT-Austin (Emeritus).

 

·       December 6: Yue Meng, University of Toronto, “The Wonder of Plants: Vegetation Studies Before Botany in Nineteenth Century China.”  

                        Discussant – Fa-ti Fan, SUNY Binghamton.

 

 

2008:

  • February 7: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona, “Mapping the City:  Activism and Urban Space. Beijing, 1919.”

Discussant: Richard Belsky, Hunter College, CUNY

 

  • March 13: Andrew Jones, University of California at Berkeley, “Inherit the Wolf: Natural History and Narrative Form in Lu Xun's Fiction.”

Discussant: Weihong Bao, Columbia University

  • April 10: Neil Diamant, Dickinson College, “Vulnerable Heroes: The Contestation over Rights and Status among Disabled Veterans in the PRC, 1949-1985”

Discussant: Rob Culp, Bard College

 

  • May 1: Henrietta Harrison, Harvard University. “Did Chinese Christians benefit from modern schools and hospitals set up by foreign missionaries? The Catholic church in a Shanxi village 1900-1945”

Discussant: Joseph Lee, Pace University

 

 

 

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Modern China Seminar

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Columbia University, New York, NY 10027

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