Modern China Seminar (Columbia University):
Recent Years' Presentations
1999
- October 14: Settling
Business Disputes in China, JEROME A. COHEN.
- November 11: Nationalistic
Contestation and Movement Politics: Railway Rights Recovery at the End of
the Qing, MARY RANKIN.
- December 9: Military
Culture in Eighteenth Century China, JOAN WALEY COHEN.
2000
- February 10: When a House
Becomes His Home: Male Property Investments and the Re-Commodification
of Domestic Real Estate in Shanghai, DEBORAH DAVIS.
- March 16: Migrating for
Marriage: Women, Economic Strategies and Social Mobility in Post-Mao
China, CHRISTINA GILMARTIN.
- April 13: reappraisal of
post 1949 Chinese history. WILLIAM KIRBY.
- September 14: Sino-Mongol
Relations, 1986-2000: A Mongol Perspective, MORRIS ROSSABI, Professor
of History, CUNY/Hunter College.
- October 12: Sex and the
State: Taxing Prostitution in Republican China, ELIZABETH REMICK,
Political Science Dept. Tufts University.
- November 9: Globalization
and the Paradox of Participation, DOROTHY SOLINGER, Professor of
Political Science, University of California/Irvine.
- December 14: Placing the
Hundred Days: the 1898 Reforms as Urban History, RICHARD BELSKY,
Assistant Professor of History, CUNY/Hunter College.
2001
- February 8, 2001: The
Tiananmen Papers, ANDREW NATHAN, Professor of Political Science,
Columbia University.
- March 8: To Show and to
Tell: The Creation of the First Chinese Museum, 1906-1930, QIN SHAO,
Associate Professor of History, The College of New Jersey.
- April 12: Mediating Mandarins:
Extending Qing Foreign Office Control Beyond Beijing, JENNIFER
RUDOLPH, Assistant Professor of History, SUNY/Albany.
- May 10: Insinuation,
Insult and Invective: The Thresholds of Power and Protest in Modern China,
PATRICIA THORNTON, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Trinity
College.
- September 13, 2001: Modernity
and Writs of Passage in Late Imperial China: One Rural Community's
Documentation of Contracts and Other Practical Understandings. MYRON
COHEN, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University.
- October 11: Chinese Images
of Japan in the 1990s: Balancing Partnership and Rivalry in a Great Power
and Regional Context. GILBERT ROZMAN, Musgrave Professor of Sociology,
Princeton University.
- November 8: Central vs.
Local Control Over Policing in Contemporary China and the Impact on Social
Control. MURRAY SCOT TANNER, Professor of Political Science, Western
Michigan University.
- December 13: The Evolving
Shape of Elite Politics. JOSEPH FEWSMITH, Boston University.
2002
- January 10, 2002: Macheng: Seven Centuries of Agrarian
Violence in a Chinese County. WILLIAM T. ROWE, John and Diane Cooke
Professor of History, the Johns Hopkins University.
- February 14, 2002: Problems
of Nationalism in China Today: Student-Government Conflicts During the
Nationalistic Protests. DINGXIN ZHAO, Assistant Professor of
Sociology, University of Chicago. (Event co-sponsored by Institute for
Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University.)
- March 14: Identifying
China's Northwest, for Nation and Empire. PETER C. PERDUE, T. T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of
Asian Civilizations and Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
- April 11: Yueju:
Politics of Popular Culture in Modern China. JIN JIANG, Assistant
Professor of History and Asian Studies, Vassar College.
- September 12: The
Political and Moral Implications of Grammar, Rhythm, and Other Formal
Facets of Chinese Language, E. PERRY LINK, Professor of
East Asian Studies, Princeton University
- October 10: Contracting
Business Partnerships in Late Qing and Republican China: Paradigms and
Patterns, ROBERT GARDELLA, Professor of History,
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
- November 14: Chinese Birth
Policy at the Turn of the Millenium:
Program Change, Regime Shift,
EDWIN WINCKLER, independent scholar
- December 12: From Ming He
Yuan to the Sackler Museum: Art and
Atrocity in One Corner of China, VERA SCHWARCZ,
Professor of History, Wesleyan University
2003
- February 13: Debating
Self-Sufficiency: Mao and Zhou Confront the International Economy,
CHRIS REARDON, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of New
Hampshire
- March 13: Collaborationist
Nationalism in the 1940s, MARGHERITA ZANASI, Assistant Professor of
Modern Chinese History, University of Texas/Austin
- April 10: The World Trade
Organization Viewed from Below: A Comparison of the Views of Migrant
and Non-migrants in Urban China, PIERRE-FRANÇOIS LANDRY, Assistant
Professor of Political Science, Yale University.
- May 1: The Politics of
Corruption in the PRC: The Yuanhua Smuggling
Case in Xiamen, SHAWN SHIEH, Assistant
Professor of Political Science, Marist College
- Sept. 11, 2003: Upstream, Downstram, China, India: The Politics of Environment
in the Himalayan Region, JOSHUA MULDAVIN, Henry R. Luce Chair in
Asian Studies and Human Geography, Sarah Lawrence College.
Discussant: James D. Seymour.
- Oct. 9: Mediating
Modernity: Textbook Publishing and the Spread of Ideas in Republican
China, ROBERT CULP, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies
at Bard College. Discussant: Jin Jiang.
- Nov. 13: Naval Warfare and the Refraction of China's
Self-Strengthening Reforms into Scientific and Technological Failure After
1895, BENJAMIN ELMAN, Professor of East
Asian Studies & History, Princeton University. Discussant: Moss
Roberts.
- Dec. 11: How
Muslim Minorities Negotiated Their Place in Chinese National Histories,
ZVI BEN-DOR, Assistant Professor of World History, New York
University. Discussant: Adam McKeown
2004
- February 12: Eating
Spring Rice: Gender, Disease and Transactional Sex in Sipsong
Panna, SANDRA HYDE, Assistant Professor of
Anthropology, McGill University. Discussant: Meg Davis.
- March 11: Journalism,
Intellectuals, and the Philosophical Economy of Value in Republican China,
REBECCA KARL, Associate Professor of History, New York University.
Discussant: Dorothy Ko.
- April 8: Collapse Perhaps:
The Stability of the Modern Chinese State, GORDON CHANG, independent
scholar. Discussants: Elizabeth Economy and James D. Seymour
- May 6: The Colonial
History of Western International Law: How American Law Became the Law of
China After the Opiuim War, TEEMU
RUSKULA, Assistant Professor of Law, American University. Discussant:
Madeline Zelin.
- Sept. 9: Poverty and
Educational Opportunity in Rural Western China, EMILY HANNUM,
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Discussant:
Frank Kehl.
- Oct. 14: Remembering and
Reshaping Tao Chengzhang: From Acclaimed
Revolutionary to Marginalized Memory, KEITH SCHOPPA, Professor of
History and Doehler Chair in Asian Studies,
Loyola College. Discussant: Renqiu Yu.
- Nov. 11: The Lure of the
New Repromedia and the World vs. Realities of
Ownership and Audience Conservativism in Late
'20s Shanghai, JAMES POLACHEK, independent scholar. Discussant:
Mercedes Dujunco.
- Dec. 9: Pacifism in
Imperial China, SHAOHUA HU, Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Wagner College. Discussant: Murray Rubenstsein.
2005
- Feb. 3: Predicates for
Regulatory Effectiveness in China, MICHAEL DOWDLE, Visiting Associate
Professor of Law, University of Washington.
- March 3: The Western
Discourse on Communist Party-States, DAVID SHAMBAUGH, Professor of
International Affairs and Political Science, George Washington University.
(Paper e-mailed.)
- April 14: Urban Network
and Medium Sized Cities in the Lower Yangzi,
1842-1937, XIN ZHANG, Associate Professor of History,
University of Indiana.
- May 5: The Imagination of
the Countryside in 1930s China, CATHERINE LYNCH,
Associate Professor of History, Eastern Connecticut State
University.
- Sept. 8: Gray Tuttle, Columbia
University, Modern China-Tibet relations. Making China a Multi-Ethnic State? The Failure of Racial and
Nationalist Ideologies in Republican China. Discussant: Uradyn Bulag, Hunter
College.
- Oct. 6: Yang Guobin,
Barnard College, Chinese sociology. Underground
Culture among Sent-down Youth, 1968-1978. Discussant: Dorothy Ko, Barnard College.
- Nov. 10: Jing Tsu,
Rutgers University. Different
Science: Electric Bodies and Credulity in Early Twentieth-Century China.
Discussant: Fan Fa-ti, SUNY Binghamton.
- Dec. 8: Fan Fa-ti, SUNY Binghamton. Nationalism, International Politics,
and the Preservation of Antiquities in Republican China. Discussant:
Adam McKeown, Columbia University.
2006
Chinese
Torture in World History.
Discussant:
Robert Hymes.
- March 9: Michael Gasster.
Taking the Long View:
How Shall We Assess the Qing's Place in Modern
Chinese History?
Discussant:
Joanna Waley-Cohen, NYU.
- April 20: Kristen Stapleton,
University of Kentucky.
Popular
Histories of China and the American Reading Public.
Discussant:
Rob Culp, Bard College.
- May 4: Sanjay Reddy and Camelia Minoiu.
China's
Poverty Reduction Experience since 1990.
Discussant:
Carl Riskin, Columbia University.
Eugenia Lean, Columbia University.
Public Passions in 1930s China.
Discussant: Yang Guobin, Barnard College.
Zhang Li, UC Davis.
Intersecting Space, Class, and
Consumption: The Making of the New Middle-Class after Mao.
Discussant: Rebecca Karl, New York
University.
Shen Shuang, Rutgers University.
Adversary Cosmopolitanism: The
History of Internationalism and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the 1930s.
Discussant: Adam McKeown, Columbia University.
Annie Reinhardt, Williams College.
National Capitalism in Context: Lu Zuofu’s Minsheng Company and
‘Saving the Nation through Enterprise,’ 1925-1952.
Discussant: Madeleine Zelin, Columbia University.
2007
Dorothy Solinger,
University of California, Irvine.
The Nexus of Democratization: Guanxi and Governance in Taiwan and the PRC.
Discussant: Myron Cohen, Columbia
University.
Pat Giersch,
Wellesley College.
Title: Copper, Caravans, and
Empire: Long-distance Commerce and the Transformation of Southwest China.
Discussant: Joanna Waley-Cohen.
Larissa Heinrich, University of New
South Wales.
“What’s Hard for the Eye to See”: Anatomical Aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to
Lu Xun.
Discussant: Fa-ti
Fan.
Peter Carroll, Northwestern
University.
Policing the City for Commerce.
Discussant: Richard Belsky, Hunter College.
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