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