Winter 2022 Schedule
Thursday, January 20 | Xiaoyu Gao
PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago
Title: “The Monetary Shadow of High Qing: Copper Cash Counterfeiting during the Qianlong Reign (1736-1796)”
Discussant: Gabriel Groz, PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago
(Zoom, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)
Thursday, February 3 | 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
(Zoom, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)
Thursday, February 10 | Yuan Julian Chen
Postdoctoral Associate, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University
Title: “Kaifeng’s Seafood Consumption and the Song Dynasty Fishing Revolution”
Discussant: TBA
(Zoom, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)
Wednesday, February 23 | Yuan Tian
PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
Title: “Dependence and Distrust: Foreign Firms and Commerical Disputes in Treaty Port Chongqing”
Discussant: Carl Kubler, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
(Zoom, 5:30 – 7:00 pm CT)
Friday March 4 | Judd C. Kinzley
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: “Wartime Dollars and the Crowning of China’s Hog Bristle King: The Dubious Legacies of American Aid, 1938-1949”
Discussant: Jacob Eyferth, Associate Professor in Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago
(CEAS Room 319, 4:00 – 6:00 pm CT)
Thursday, March 10 | Xiangning Li
PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago
Title: “‘Broken Shoe (poxie),’ Female Communists, and Socialist Sexuality in the Mao era, 1949-1976”
Discussant: Stephanie Painter, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
(CEAS Room 319, 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: Nov. 18, Carl Kubler, “Intrepid Petitioners: Sino-Western Debt and Recompense at the Grassroots and Beyond”
Protected: Nov. 4, Yujie Li, “Earthwork Methods on Huai River: Engineering the Waterscape and the Rise of a New Labor Regime”
Protected: Oct. 28, Heangjin Park, “Reimagining ‘Korea’: The Topography of ‘Korea’ in Korean Kimchi, Korean-Chinese, and Qingdao Koreatowns”
Protected: Oct. 21, Zhengyuan Ling, “Was He Mourning?: A study of Sheng Xuanhuai’s dingyou at the turn of the twentieth century”
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
(Zoom, 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: “Intrepid Petitioners: Sino-Western Debt and Recompense at the Grassroots and Beyond”
Discussant: Yuan Tian, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
(Zoom, 5:30 – 7:00 pm CT)
(Rescheduled to the Winter Quarter) 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) .