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New module on the Silk Roads launched

Mon May 2, 11:50am
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https://www.edx.org/chinax-chinas-past-present-future
On May 1, 2016, we released a new module on the Silk Roads with Professor Daniel C. Waugh, from the University of Washington in Seattle. In this module, you will learn about how ideas, culture, objects and people traveled between China, Central Asia and Europe, and the peoples and cultures involved. A very special thank you to Professor Waugh for his collaboration and generous amount of time he spent with us to create it.

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"The Birth of Chinese Feminism": Book Discussion with the Authors

Fri Feb 26, 4:00pm
Location:
Room S153 | CGIS South | 1730 Cambridge Street | Cambridge, MA
Lydia H. Liu, Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; Professor, School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University 清華大學

Professor Liu received a bicultural education in China and the United States. She completed her Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 1990. After that, she taught at UC Berkeley for more than a decade (1990-2002) where she eventually became the Catherine and William L. Magistretti...
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Political Reform as National Pastime: Staging Peking Opera’s New Tragic Heroines

Fri Feb 12, 4:00pm
Location:
Room S153 | CGIS South | 1730 Cambridge Street | Cambridge, MA
Catherine Yeh, Associate Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature, Boston University

Catherine Yeh’s teaching and research interests include 19th and 20th century Chinese literary, media, and visual culture. Her work has focused on the social and political implications of Chinese entertainment culture and literature, and its impact on social change in late imperial and Republican era China. In particular, she has worked and published on the lifestyle of late Qing urban literati and Shanghai courtesans in an effort to explore the role of “...
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ChinaX livestream event with Professor Peter Bol: What Can Confucianism Teach the World Today

Sat Jan 9, 7:00am to 8:00am
Location:
http://ke.qq.com/course/111132#term_id=100119190
We are very excited to let you know about an event with Professor Peter Bol called What Can Confucianism Teach the World Today. The event will take place tomorrow, Saturday, January 9, from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM UTC, in Beijing.

He will consider how Confucianism has persisted and changed throughout China’s history. Is there something constant in Confucianism? And if there is, does it have value for the whole world or only for China? What can Confucianism teach the world today?

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Rice Queens, Snakeheads, and Green Cards: HIV and Gay Male Subjectivity in NYC Chinatowns

Fri Dec 4, 4:00pm
Location:
Room S153 | CGIS South | 1730 Cambridge Street | Cambridge, MA
Katherine A. Mason, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University

Katherine Mason is a medical anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in China and the U.S. Mason's research addresses issues in medical anthropology, anthropological demography, population health, bioethics, global health, science and technology studies, China studies, and gender studies. She is broadly interested in how "populations" and "communities" are created and conceptualized, especially in the field of public health, and how people form relationships...
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Toward a Transnational, Trans-1978 History of Food Politics in China

Tue Nov 17, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
ROOM K354 | CGIS KNAFEL BUILDING | 1737 CAMBRIDGE STREET
In the 1960s and 1970s, the PRC state promoted the technological transformation of agriculture through a radical approach known as the "mass movement for scientific experiment." Grassroots "scientific experiment groups" were organized throughout the countryside on a "three-in-one" basis: "old peasants" with practical experience, "educated youth" with revolutionary zeal, and local cadres with correct political understanding were expected to work together to identify needs and develop solutions, to promote self-reliance, and to overturn "technocratic" approaches promoted by scientific...
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Laozi the Existentialist: Martin Buber’s Transformation of the Daodejing

Mon Nov 16, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262) | CGIS Knafel Building | 1737 Cambridge Street | Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Jonathan Herman, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Georgia State University.

In all likelihood, few Sinologists are aware of the extent to which the existentialist philosopher and Jewish icon Martin Buber studied Chinese philosophy and literature throughout his career. At one end, more than a decade before he composed his best known text, I and Tao, Buber published a German translation of and commentary on the Zhuangzi. At the other end forty years...
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Picturing China: Qing-Dynasty Photography and Fashion

Sat Nov 7, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location:
GW Media and Public Affairs Building 805 21st Street, NW Jack Morton Auditorium Washington, District Of Columbia
Scottish photographer John Thomson left a stunning visual record of nineteenth-century China in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty. Inspired by the museum’s fall exhibition China: Through the Lens of John Thomson (1868–1872), the museum's 2015 fall symposium will feature presentations by a panel of international photography and textile scholars. The talks will examine how Thomson’s images and period fashions have had lasting impact on how China is pictured today.

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China: Through the Lens of John Thomson (1868–1872)

Fri Nov 6, 3:05pm to Sun Feb 14, 3:05pm
Location:
701 21st Street, NW Washington, DC 20052 Phone: 202-994-5200 museuminfo@gwu.edu
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Michael Wood: "The Story of China" a forthcoming BBC series (Fall, 2015)

Fri Oct 23, 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location:
The British Library, Conference Centre 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB
Prof. Michael Wood will be presenting his upcoming documentary series The Story of China. Professor Wood's 6-part Story of China for the BBC will start in late 2015 (2016 broadcast on PBS). Find out more at http://www.bl.uk/events/michael-wood-the-story-of-china.

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Past Events

New module on the Silk Roads launched

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"The Birth of Chinese Feminism": Book Discussion with the Authors

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Political Reform as National Pastime: Staging Peking Opera’s New Tragic Heroines

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ChinaX livestream event with Professor Peter Bol: What Can Confucianism Teach the World Today

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Rice Queens, Snakeheads, and Green Cards: HIV and Gay Male Subjectivity in NYC Chinatowns

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Toward a Transnational, Trans-1978 History of Food Politics in China

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Laozi the Existentialist: Martin Buber’s Transformation of the Daodejing

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Picturing China: Qing-Dynasty Photography and Fashion

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Symposium Presentations...

China: Through the Lens of John Thomson (1868–1872)

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Michael Wood: "The Story of China" a forthcoming BBC series (Fall, 2015)

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