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

Nicholas Bartlett

nbartlet@barnard.edu

Ying Qian

yq2189@columbia.edu

William Charles Wooldridge

william.wooldridge@lehman.cuny.edu

Rapporteur/s

John Payne

jhp2164@columbia.edu

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Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

07
May

May 7, 20267:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Her Story (2024) and the Cultural Logic of Contemporary Chinese Women’s Stand-Up

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Speaker/s

Zhuoyi Wang, Hamilton College

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

16
Apr

April 16, 20267:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

A Japanese Sailor, Fourteen North Korean Factory Trainees, and One ‘Counter-Revolutionary Element’: A Microhistory of June 14, 1966, Shanghai

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Speaker/s

Gavin Healy, Columbia University and University of Michigan

Discussant/s

Rebecca Karl, NYU

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Scheduled

26
Mar

March 26, 20267:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Shanghai’s Textbook Monopoly, Linguistic Territoriality, and the Limits of Nationalism

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Speaker/s

Robert Culp, Bard College

Discussant/s

Eugenia Lean, Columbia University

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12
Feb

February 12, 20267:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Food Infrastructure and Porcine Necropolitics in Modern Taiwan

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Speaker/s

I-yi Hsieh, Taiwan National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Discussant/s

Soonyi Lee, Mercy University

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04
Dec

December 4, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Dispossession and Countermovement in the Longue Durée: Agricultural Collectivization, Urbanization, Nostalgia

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Speaker/s

Jesse Rodenbiker, Rutgers University

Discussant/s

Nick Smith, Barnard

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06
Nov

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

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Gender, Industrial Work, and Postindustrial Memory in Taiwan

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Speaker/s

Anru Lee, John Jay

Discussant/s

Chuck Wooldridge, Lehman College and WEAI

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Scheduled

23
Oct

October 23, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

A World without Money: Demonetization and Everyday Life in Collective-Era Rural China

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Speaker/s

Jacob Eyferth, University of Chicago

Discussant/s

Mark Selden

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18
Sep

September 18, 20257:00 pm - 9:00 pm

International Affairs Building

Room 918

Columbia University

Fictitious Computing: Data Processing, Rural Economies, and the Matrices of Cinema in Cold War Taiwan

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Speaker/s

Shaoling Ma, Cornell University

Discussant/s

Ying Qian, Columbia University

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