Seminars

Modern East Asia: China

Year Founded 1957

Seminar # 443

StatusActive

This seminar is concerned with the politics, society, culture, and international relations of China from the early nineteenth century to the present. Its broader purpose is to explore the evolution of Chinese civilization over the past century of revolution and rapid social change. Papers—work in progress—are circulated to members and associates in advance of each meeting. Authors are asked to give a brief oral introduction, after which a discussant comments. The entire remainder of each session is comprised of members’ reactions to the paper and the author’s responses.

Chair/s

Nick Bartlett

nbartlet@barnard.edu

Ying Qian

yq2189@columbia.edu

William Charles Wooldridge

william.wooldridge@lehman.cuny.edu

Rapporteur/s

Xuexin Cai

xc2546@columbia.edu

External Website

Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

10
Apr

April 10, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

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Speaker/s

Shaoling Ma, Cornell University

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08
May

May 8, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

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Speaker/s

Yijun Wang, New York University

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

06
Mar

March 6, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

“So Changed That—?”: Women, Ren’Ge, and Leaving Mr. Science Behind

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Speaker/s

Grace Shen, Fordham University

Discussant/s

Tani Barlow, Rice University

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06
Feb

February 6, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

The Shekou Ethic and the Spirit of Chinese Urbanization

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Speaker/s

Nick Smith, Columbia University

Discussant/s

Deborah Davis, Yale University

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05
Dec

December 5, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

A Dreamy Set: The Dream of the Red Chamber and Television in the Chinese 1980s

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Speaker/s

Julia Keblinska, Ohio State University

Discussant/s

Ying Qian, Columbia University

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Scheduled

07
Nov

November 7, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Cultivating Kin and Kind

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Speaker/s

Caroline Merrifield, New York University

Discussant/s

Myron Cohen, Columbia University

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Scheduled

17
Oct

October 17, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

From Primitive Communism to Joyful Serfdom: Negotiating Minority Nationality Documentary in China (1957-65)

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Speaker/s

Ying Qian, Columbia University

Discussant/s

Aaron Glasserman, University of Pennsylvania

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Scheduled

19
Sep

September 19, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Life First: Pandemic Biopolitics in China

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Speaker/s

Christian Sorace, University of Cambridge

Discussant/s

John Rajchman, Columbia University

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Scheduled

09
May

May 9, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Livestreaming Precarity: Temporal Aesthetics, the Chinese Internet, and the Contingency of the Live Screen

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Speaker/s

Chenshu Zhou, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant/s

Nico Baumbach, Columbia University

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Scheduled

18
Apr

April 18, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Toward the Study of a Crowd-Like Group in China

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Speaker/s

Nick Bartlett, Barnard College

Discussant/s

Tani Barlow, Rice University

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Scheduled

21
Mar

March 21, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Dreams of Stability: Polyethylene and the Transformation of Taiwan’s Agricultural and Industrial Ecosystem

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Speaker/s

Ying Jia Tan, Wesleyan University

Discussant/s

Paul Kreitman, Columbia University

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22
Feb

February 22, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

A Labor of Distinction: Time and the Material in Guangzhou’s Scrap Trade

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Speaker/s

Amy Zhang, New York University

Discussant/s

Jonathan Bach, The New School

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08
Feb

February 8, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

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Speaker/s

Sau-yi Fong, Columbia University

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Scheduled

07
Dec

December 7, 20237:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

The Chinese Anatomical Revolution and Its Limits

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Speaker/s

David Luesink, Sacred Heart

Discussant/s

Grace Shen, Fordham University

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Scheduled

16
Nov

November 16, 20237:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Cross Border Media and Exchange: Hong Kong and China’s Citizens in the 1980s

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Speaker/s

Denise Ho, Yale University

Discussant/s

Eugenia Lean, Columbia University

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19
Oct

October 19, 20237:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

‘I Can’t Even Read One Word’: Women’s (IL)Literacy and the Unmaking of the Chinese Peasant Class

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Speaker/s

Britta Ingebretson, Fordham University

Discussant/s

Leta Hong Fincher, Columbia University

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Scheduled

21
Sep

September 21, 20237:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

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