China research Seminar

Lent Term, 2020

Unless otherwise arranged, all seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5pm in rooms 8 & 9 in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Tea will be served at the same venue at 4:45pm. All are welcome. Attendees are welcome to join us for the post-talk dinner afterwards at a local restaurant. The maximum student contribution to the cost of the meal is capped at £10.

• Wednesday, 22nd January, 2020
  Legal Liberal Resistance: The Experience of China's Human Rights Lawyers
  Prof. Eva Pils, Professor of Law, King's College, London

• Wednesday, 29th January, 2020
  Legal Mutilation and Moral Exclusion: Disputes on Integrity and Deformity in Early China
  Prof. Romain Graziania, Ecole Normale Superieure and the University of Geneva
   

• Wednesday, 5th February, 2020
  Back to Cambridge Again: translating the verse of Shao Xunmei
  Prof. Sun Jicheng, Professor of English, Shandong University
   

• Wednesday, 12th February, 2020
  The Great Cataclysm: Reconstructing Buddhist Monasteries in the Wake of the Taiping War
  Dr Gregory Adam Scott, Lecturer in Chinese Culture and History, University of Manchester
   

• Wednesday, 19th February, 2020 at 4pm
  *** Please note the unusually early start time of this week's talk ***
  Divine Landscapes: Hagiography as Geography in the Zhenwu Cult
  Dr Noga Ganany, Lecturer in late imperial Chinese literature, University of Cambridge
   

• Wednesday, 26th February, 2020 in the Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College
  **** Please note the change of venue for this week's talk ***
  Crowning China’s “Hog Bristle King”: American Demand for Bristles and the Wartime Transformation of the Chinese Countryside
  Prof. Judd Kinzley, History Department, University of Wisonsin at Madison
   

• Wednesday, 11th February, 2020 in the Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John's College
  **** Please note the change of venue for this week's talk ***
  Photography as Metaphor: Repurposing Archival Photographs of Mao
  Prof. Barbara Mittler, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg
   

For further information, contact:

Prof. Hans van de Ven FBA
Professor of Modern Chinese History
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

E-mail: jjv10@cam.ac.uk

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