EAST ASIA WORKSHOP: POLITICS, ECONOMY & SOCIETY
Winter 2010 Workshop Schedule
Jan. 12
“Reconfiguring Imperial Ritual: State-building in Early Meiji Japan, 1868-1872”
Yijiang Zhong
PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization
University of Chicago
Jan. 26
“China’s Cultural Revolution: A Personal Story or From China’s Cultural Revolution to the Current Economic Boom”
Jennifer Kwong
Author of Mulberry Child: A Memoir of China
Feb. 9
“Ethnic Minorities’ Economic Development in China”
Dongmei Zhang
Visiting Scholar, School of Economics, Minzu University of China
Feb. 23
“The Survival and Revival of Religion under Chinese Communist Rule: A Shortage Economy Explanation”
Professor Fenggang Yang
Director, Center on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University
Mar. 9
*Title to be determined*
Diana Kim
Doctoral Candidate, Political Science, University of Chicago
The workshop meets on alternative Tuesdays 4:00-5:30pm at Pick Lounge, 5828 South University Avenue. Papers or abstracts are typically available on our website http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/eastasia/. Questions and comments should be directly addressed to the coordinator Jean Yen-chun Lin at jeanlin@uchicago.edu.
Faculty Sponsors: Dali Yang, Political Science, daliyang@uchicago.edu, Cheol-Sung Lee, Sociology, chslee@uchicago.edu