Thursday, Jan. 12 | Xiaoyu Gao 

PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago

“Wartime Land Reform and Taxation in Rural North China: Creating a Taxable Socialist State, 1946-1949”

Discussant: Xiangning Li, The University of Chicago

(John Hope Franklin Room, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)

Thursday, Jan. 26 | Graeme Reynolds 

Instructor in History, The University of Chicago

“Publishing Official Histories of Koryo in the Choson”

Discussant: Hoyt Long, The University of Chicago

(John Hope Franklin Room, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)

 *Co-hosted event with the Arts and Politics of East Asia Workshop

Thursday, February 9 | Yuting Dong

Postdoctoral Fellow in History, The University of Chicago

Title TBD

Discussant: Le Vi Pham, The University of Chicago

(John Hope Franklin Room, 4:00 –5: 30 pm CT)

Thursday, February 23 | Zhao Fang

PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago

“The Shadow Over Yan’an: Ren Zhuoxuan and the Birth of Maoism”

Discussant: Gabriel Groz, The University of Chicago

(John Hope Franklin Room, 4:00-5:30 pm CT)

EATRH is generously supported by the Center for East Asian Studies, the Council on Advanced Studies, and The University of Chicago.