China Research Seminar

Michaelmas Term, 2020

This Term, all seminars take the form of an online webinar on Wednesdays at 5pm. Advance registration for each event is required in order to receive joining information.

• Wednesday, 14th October, 2020
  A Chinese Novel from the Wilhelmine Empire: Alfred Döblin's The Three Leaps of Wang Lun
  Prof. David Midgley, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistcs, University of Cambridge
  Registration for this event
   

• Wednesday, 21st October, 2020
  ‘The Most Expensive Item in the World’ Online Marketing and the E-commercialisation of Charitable Projects in Contemporary China
  Jacqueline Zhenru LIN, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
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• Wednesday, 28th October, 2020
  Transmission Along the Southwest Silk Road: The Cultures of Sanxingdui, Jinsha and Dian
  Dr Hajni Elias, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
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• Wednesday, 4th November, 2020
  Please Don’t Laugh: Learning to Speak the "Common Language" in 1950s China
  Dr Janet Chen, Princeton University
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• Wednesday, 11th November, 2020
  A Multitude of Objects: Re-materialising the Study of Chinese Religious Life
  Dr Adam Yuet Chau, Reader in the Anthropology of China, University of Cambridge
  Registration for this event

• Wednesday, 18th November, 2020
  Materials, Design and Revolution in the Early People's Republic of China
  Jennifer Altehenger, University of Oxford
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• Wednesday, 25th November, 2020
  POSTPONED: Protestant Christian Names, Naming and Religious Legitimacy in Contemporary China
  Mark McLeister, University of Edinburgh
  We regret that this talk has had to be postponed. We hope to be able to re-schedule the session for a date early in the New Year

• Wednesday, 2nd December, 2020
  The Divine Ox: The Draft Animal as Incarnate Deity in Chinese Religion and Literature
  Meir Shahar, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  Registration for this event

For further information, contact:

Dr Adam Yuet Chau
Reader in the Anthropology of China
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

E-mail: ayc25@cam.ac.uk

Or see the China Cambridge Facebook Page