Protected: Oct. 14, Gabriel Groz, “All Under Heaven a Commonwealth”: The Fengjian Theory of the State in Ming China
Autumn 2021 Schedule
October 14th | Gabriel Groz
PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago
Title: “‘All Under Heaven a Commonwealth’: The Fengjian Theory of the State in Ming China”
Discussant: Xiangning Li, PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago
(Location: CEAS Room 319, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)
October 21st | Zhengyuan Lin
MA Candidate, MAPH, The University of Chicago
Title: “Sheng Xuanhuai’s dingyou and the private-public boundary in the 1900s China: the political, intellectual, and technological changes in late imperial China”
Discussant: Xiaoyu Gao, PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago
(Zoom, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)
October 28th | Heangjin Park
PhD in Anthropology & Teaching Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and the College, The University of Chicago
Title: “Reimagining ‘Korea’: The Topography of ‘Korea’ in Korean Kimchi, Korean-Chinese, and Qingdao Koreatowns”
Discussant: Robert Burgos, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
(Location: TBA, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)
November 4th | Yujie Li
PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
Title: “Earthwork Methods on Huai River: Engineering the Waterscape and the Rise of a New Labor Regime”
Discussant: Xiangli Ding, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rhode Island School of Design
(Zoom, 3:00 – 4:30 pm CT)
November 18th | Carl Kubler
PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
Title: “Dealing with Barbarians: Negotiating and Contextualizing Conflict between East and West”
Discussant: Yuan Tian, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
(Zoom, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)
December 2nd | Yang Zhang
Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University
Title: “The Politics of Bureaucratic Development and Devolution in Imperial China, 900s-1800s”
Discussant: TBA
(Location: TBA, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)
If you have any concerns or questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jiakai Sheng (jiakaisheng@uchicago.edu) and/or Xiaoyu Gao (xiaoyugao@uchicago.edu) .
Protected: Spencer Stewart: Pure Seed Production and the Growth of Cotton Science in Interwar China
Protected: Tian Yuan: Debating Chinese Cruelty: Legal Orientalism, Summary Execution, and Extraterritoriality
Protected: Prof. Ken Pomeranz: Making “Southwestern China” in the late Qing and Republic: economic change, provincial state-building, and native chieftains in Yunnan, ca. 1873-1937
Protected: Prof. Takashi Miura: Memories of Tokugawa Protest Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Sakura Sōgorō as a Symbol of Japan’s “Pre-Meiji” Modernity
Protected: Jiakai Sheng, The Extra-Settlement Road Problem of Shanghai: Negotiations between the Chinese, Westerners, and Japanese, 1930-1937
Protected: Xavier Ante, April 22: The Qing’s Indigenous Foresters: The Qingshui River Documents and the Persistence of the Miao Forest Frontier in the Qing Dynasty
Spring 2021 Schedule
Spring ’21 Schedule:
April 1st Matthew Lowenstein, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago
Title: “Chinese Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) in Historical Perspective”
April 8th Stephanie Painter, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago
Title: “Trouble in the Marriage Bed: Licit Sex, Virginity, and Expectations of Marital Intimacy Among Newlyweds and Married Youth”
April 22nd Xavier Ante, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago
Title: “The Qingshui River Documents and the Persistence of the Miao Forest Frontier in the Qing”
April 29th Jiakai Sheng, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago
Title: “Extra-Settlement Road Negotiations of 1930s’ Shanghai: the Chinese, Westerners, and Japanese”
May 6th (3:30 PM to 5:00 PM CT) Professor Takashi Miura, University of Arizona
Title: TBA
May 13th Professor Kenneth Pomeranz, UChicago
Presenting an excerpt from Why is China So Big?
May 20th Marshall Kramer, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, UChicago
Title: “Medicine Men, Militias and Money: The Rise of Trade-Debt Capitalism on the Southern Silk Road”
[cancelled]
May 27th (7:00 PM to 8:30 PM CT) Tian Yuan, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago
Title: “Debating Chinese Cruelty: Legal Orientalism, Summary Execution, and Extraterritoriality”
June 3rd Spencer Stewart, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago
Title: TBA