Spring 2021 Schedule

Spring ’21 Schedule:

April 1^st Matthew Lowenstein, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago

Title: “Chinese Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) in Historical Perspective”

April 8^th 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 22^nd Xavier Ante, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago

Title: “The Qingshui River Documents and the Persistence of the Miao Forest Frontier in the Qing”

April 29^th Jiakai Sheng, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago

Title: “Extra-Settlement Road Negotiations of 1930s’ Shanghai: the Chinese, Westerners, and Japanese”

May 6^th (3:30 PM to 5:00 PM CT) Professor Takashi Miura, University of Arizona

Title: TBA

May 13^th Professor Kenneth Pomeranz, UChicago

Presenting an excerpt from Why is China So Big?

May 20^th Marshall Kramer, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, UChicago

Title: “Medicine Men, Militias and Money: The Rise of Trade-Debt Capitalism on the Southern Silk Road”

May 27^th (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 3^rd Spencer Stewart, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago

Title: TBA

June 10^th PARTY!!! (Save the date…more details to come 🙂

Protected: Stephanie M. Painter — Trouble in the Marriage Bed: Licit Sex, Virginity, and Expectations of Marital Intimacy Among Newlyweds and Married Youth

Protected: Matt Lowenstein, April 1

Protected: Andrew Liu- FACTORIES BEHIND THE STOREFRONT: The four Cantonese small tigers, Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific, and toward a more global history of flexibility

Protected: Transnational Asia and the Global South–Syllabus workshop

Protected: Ruohan Zhou — Parachuted from the Paradise: Intellectuals in the National Wuhan University and Wuhan, 1928-1937

Winter 2021 Schedule

Hello everyone!

Hope you are all having a good first week of winter quarter. We will have our first meeting next Thursday, Jan 21 at 3:30 PM CST. We will be discussing Jessa Dahl’s dissertation chapter entitled, “Kuwa Tsu Sui (whatever that may mean)”: Kwassui Jo Gakkō Mission School and the Education of Japanese Women in the Foreign Settlement”. Jessa Dahl is a PhD Candidate in History.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The rest of the quarter lineup is as follows, though we are still waiting to hear back from one invitee. Please note the deviations from our regular meeting time.

February 18 @ 7PM CST

Ruohan Zhou

Establishing the National Wuhan University

February 25 @ 4PM CST

Sandra Park, Eilin Rafael Pérez, and Zoya Sameen, PhD Candidates in History

Transnational Asia & the Global South: A Syllabus Workshop

March 12 @ 1:30PM CST

Andrew Liu, Assistant Professor of History at Villanova University

TBA

Best,

Niuniu and Stephanie

Protected: Jessa Dahl – “Kuwa Tsu Sui (whatever that may mean)”: Kwassui Jo Gakkō Mission School and the Education of Japanese Women in the Foreign Settlement

Protected: Emily Baum – Acupuncture Anesthesia on American Bodies: Communism, Race, and the Cold War in the Making of ‘Legitimate’ Medical Science

Protected: Dan Knorr — Washing Jades and Watching Cranes: The Gendered Politics of Visual Ecology in Early Modern China

East Asia: Transregional Histories

A University of Chicago CAS workshop, EATRH encourages scholars of East Asia to frame their work within the broader context of East Asia and the world.