Category Archives: Uncategorized
Protected: April 21, Stephanie Painter, “What She Had: Work, Property, and the Imperative of Autonomy in the Lives of Eighteenth Century Chinese Women”
Protected: April 14, Aimee Pizarchik, “Mending Order in Southwest China: The Transformation of Local Rule and Mobile Defense Groups”
Spring 2022 Schedule
Thursday, April 14 | Aimee Pizarchik
PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago
“Mending Order in Southwest China: The Transformation of Local Rule and Mobile Defense Groups”
Discussant: Xiaoyu Gao, PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago
(SSRB 224, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)
Thursday, April 21 | Stephanie Painter
PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
“What She Had: Work, Property, and the Imperative of Autonomy in the Lives of Eighteenth Century Chinese Women”
Discussant: Ruochen Cao, MA Student in East Asian Studies, UCLA
(Zoom, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)
Monday, May 2 | Yasser Nasser
PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
“Making Friends and Making ‘Asia’: The Fragilities of Sino-Indian Friendship”
Discussant: Niu Teo, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
(Zoom, 6:00 – 7:30 pm CT)
Thursday, May 12 | Victor Seow
Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
“The Charcoal-powered Automobile in Transwar China”
Discussant: Jacob Eyferth, Associate Professor of Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago
(SSRB 224, 4:00 – 6:00 pm CT)
*Co-event with the Environmental Studies Workshop
Thursday, May 19 | Joshua Fogel
Professor & Canada Research Chair, Department of History, York University
“Internacia Lingvo: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan, 1905-1932”
Discussant: Carl Kubler, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
(Zoom, 4:00 – 6:00 pm CT)
*Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies
Wednesday, June 1 | Covell Meyskens
Assistant Professor, National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
“Building China’s Infrastructure State: From World War II to the Belt and Road Initiative”
Discussant: Yujie Li, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
(SSRB 224, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)
Protected: March 10, Yuan Tian, “A Battle for Control: Foreign Firms, Chinese Employees, and the Pig Bristle Trade in Treaty-port Chongqing”
Protected: March 4, Judd Kinzley, “Wartime Dollars and the Crowning of China’s Hog Bristle King: The Dubious Legacies of American Aid, 1938-1949”
Protected: Feb. 10, Yuan Julian Chen, “Kaifeng’s Seafood Consumption and the Song Dynasty Fishing Revolution”
Protected: Feb. 3, Yang Zhang, “The Retreat of the State? The Politics of Bureaucratic (Under-)Development in Imperial China, 900s-1800s”
Protected: Jan. 20, Xiaoyu Gao, “The Monetary Shadow of High Qing: Copper Cash Counterfeiting during the Qianlong Reign (1736-1796)”
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 Retreat of the State? The Politics of Bureaucratic (Under-)Development in Imperial China, 900s-1800s”
Discussant: Shuang Chen, Associate Professor of History, University of Iowa
(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: Faisal Husain, Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University
(Zoom, 4:00 – 5:30 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 of Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago
(CEAS Room 319, 4:00 – 6:00 pm CT)
Thursday, March 10 | Yuan Tian
PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
Title: “A Battle for Control: Foreign Firms, Chinese Employees, and the Pig Bristle Trade in Treaty-port Chongqing”
Discussant: Carl Kubler, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago
(Zoom, 4:30 – 6:00 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)