China research Seminar
Michaelmas Term, 2019
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, 16th October, 2019
'The Old Man of Ten Victories' Makes His Case: Qianlong as Frontier Conqueror and Self-Publicist
Donald Sutton, Carnegie Mellon University
- Wednesday, 23rd October, 2019
Debating the China Dream in the Age of Xi Jinping
Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia, David Ownby, Université de Montréal and Joshua Fogel, York University, Toronto
- Wednesday, 30th October, 2019
From Miserable Patients to Competent Organizers: An Ethnographic Study on the Role of Women in the Confucian Congregation
Fan Lizhu and Chen Na, Fudan University
- Wednesday, 6th November, 2019
The Politics of Illness in Early China
Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge
- Wednesday, 13th November, 2019
Below the Summit: How Physicists, Acrobats, and Seismologists Remade US-China Relations, 1969-78
Peter Millwood, London School of Economics
- Wednesday, 20th November, 2019
Fun and Funerals: Variety Entertainment Scenes on Eastern Han Stone Sarcophagi from the Southwest
Hajni Elias, University of Cambridge
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
Or see the China Cambridge Facebook Page