Events

Event Details

Title
Seventh Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy
15th Annual Chinese Medieval Studies Workshop
Placing Racial Capitalism: South African Genealogies, Chinese Difference (Mingwei Huang, Dartmouth College)
New Frontiers in the Study of Medieval China Workshop: On Commemorative  Inscriptions
The Philosophy of Reading: Interpretation and Hermeneutics in Classical China (Michael Puett, Harvard University)
International Workshop on Premodern and Modern Chinese Literature and History (Canceled)
Literary Northeast and South China: Geography, Topography, Cartography
Roundtable on Education, Social Location and Mobility: Insights from China and the US
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Community Wellness Day
Limpidity of Being: Poetics and the Fashioning of Courtly Self in Early Medieval China (Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University)
The Great Wall as a Climate Frontier: Towards an Integrated Study of the Ordos Region (Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study)
The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun (Ping Wang, University of Washington)
17th Annual Chinese Medieval Studies Workshop
Chinese-English Keywords Project Workshop
New Frontiers in the Study of Medieval China Workshop: Lives and Afterlives of Inscriptions
Chinese Music and Theatre in the Americas--Chinese Diaspora in Cuba and the Caribbean (Rutgers faculty in dialogue with a guest speaker)
Essay contest due
Photography blog contribution due
Retrospective exhibition of modern Chinese sculptor Liu Shiming at Mason Gross Galleries (exhibition 7/31-9/22; panel discussion and reception 9/6)
Understanding Yang Zhu’s “Joy in Life” Philosophy in Ancient and Medieval Texts (Erica Brindley, Penn State University)
Of King Hui of Liang 梁惠王 and the Mu Tianzi zhuan 穆天子傳 : Reading Early Sources Through the Prism of Warring States History (Andrew Meyer, CUNY Brooklyn College)
Marginality: Solidarity and the Fight for Social Change  (Jin Park, American University)
Family Matters: Chinese Queer Politics around the Rise of a Family-State (Wei Wei, Eastern China Normal University)
"Tang Poetry, WWI, and Trench Art: An Unexpected Opportunity for the Study of Classical Chinese Poetry" (Ding Xiang Warner, Cornell University)
Posthuman Inhumanity and Death (Ban Wang, Stanford University)
Under Pressure: Attitudes Towards China Among American Foreign Policy Professionals (Rory Truex, Princeton University)
Marginality (Jin Park, American University): Rescheduled to Thursday, April 2
The Causal Effect of Social Drinking/Eating Networks on Trust (Yanjie Bian, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
The Party's Interests Come First (Joseph Torigian, American University)
Safeguarding Cultural Security in Contemporary China (Martin Dimitrov, Tulane University)
7th Annual Rutgers-National Taiwan University Workshop on Chinese Studies
Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Buddha-Nature According to Tiantai and What To Do About It, If Anything (Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago)
Repression Beyond Repressive Measures: Digital Authoritarianism in China as a Collaborated Project (Zhifan Luo, McMaster University, Canada)
C. T. Hsia’s English Essays During His Yale Years (Ji Jin, Soochow University, China)
Zhu Xi’s 朱熹 (1130–1200) Theory of Emotions (Ya ZUO, University of California Santa Barbara)
Dominant Strategies of Individuals and Organizations and their Social Contexts (Dingxin Zhao, University of Chicago)
Religious Change in Post-Mao China (Yanfei Sun, Zhejiang University, China)
How Not to Interpret a Text: in Classical China, for example (Michael Puett, Harvard University)
The Human Factor: Work as Science in Modern China (Victor Seow, Harvard University)
Borderland as Literature (David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University)
Confucian Power as Responsibility (Sungmoon Kim, City University of Hong Kong)
Two Lectures on Modern Chinese Literary Culture (in Chinese)
16th Annual Chinese Medieval Studies Workshop
Left Melancholy: A Dialogue between Chen Yingzhen and Wang Anyi (Hang Tu, National University of Singapore)
7th Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy
Youth Unemployment and Underemployment in China and Its Political Implications (Yao LU, Columbia University)
Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral: Zheng He and the Chinese Overseas (Tansen Sen, NYU Shanghai/IAS)
Acousmatic Intimacies? A Commute through Leaky Sounds (Rey Chow, Duke University)
Contested Sociocultural Spaces of Aging in Rural China: From Older Adults’ Lived Experiences (Lin CHEN, Fudan/Harvard-Yenching)
Virtuous Wealth?: China's Mission to Convert New Money into "New Philanthropy" (Lissa Crane, Rutgers University)
Orthodox Transmission of Political Power: The Notion of Zhengtong in China's Past and Present (Mara Yue Du, Cornell/IAS)
Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China (Amy Zhang, New York University)
A new book panel: Confucianism at War: 1931-1945 (edited by Shaun O'Dwyer)
The Play of Substitutions in the Early Chinese Literary Tradition (Michael Puett, Harvard University)
Lunar New Year Reception
Permutable Stratosphere: Overflights and a Geopoetics of Transpacific Top Secrecy (1958-2024) (Jerry Zee, Princeton University)
The Dragon Roars Back:  Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy (Suisheng Zhao, University of Denver)
Intimacies of Empire: Race, Religion and Belonging
The Transition from Courier Stations to Postal Stations and the Compression of Time and Space During 1860 to 1911 : Evidence from North China (Hanmei Wang, Central China University/Rutgers)
Geopolitics from Below: State-Diaspora Interplay and the Social Origins of Global China, (Jiaqi Liu, Singapore Management University)
The Politics of Policy Drift and Debates over Retirement Age Reform in China (Mark Frazier, New School for Social Research)
Welcome-back Reception
China's Age of Abundance: A Reflection (WANG Feng, University of California Irvine)
The Birth of Century: Chinese Thought at the Dawn of the Pacific Twentieth Century (WANG Hui, Tsinghua University)
Experiencing China's Energy Transition with Jia Zhangke's Miner Characters (Xingming Wang, Rutgers University)
Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise (Christopher Marquis, University of Cambridge, UK)
Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (Jesse Rodenbiker, Rutgers)
The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Chris Suh, Emory University)
Slavery and Its Medieval Abolitionisms: China Contrasted to Europe (Don Wyatt, Middlebury College)
Common Prosperity for Rural China: How the Rural-Urban Divide Threatens China’s Rise (Scott Rozelle, Stanford University)
An Archaeological Approach to Collaboration and Competition in Hunter Gatherer Societies: Chinese Sites (Ilaria Patania, Rutgers University)
Spatiocide as Spectacle: The Symbolic Violence of Development in Xinjiang (Lauren Restrepo, Bryn Mawr College)
Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea (Shuchen Xiang, Xidian University 西电大学, China)
The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China (Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard University)
Bridging Chinese History and Latin American History in Cold War Studies: Past and Present (Jian Ren, Rutgers History)
Ecological States: A Book Forum
Global China and Infrastructure Power: The techno-politics of the ‘China Model’ of development (Timothy Oakes, University of Colorado Boulder)
Terror Capitalism: Producing the "Terrorist-Worker" in Northwest China (Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University, Canada)
The Life Cycle of the Sacred: Manichaeans Artifacts and their Curious Preservation at Buddhist Archeological Sites across Medieval East Central Asia (Zsuzsanna Gulasci, Northern Arizona University)
Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China (Jérôme Doyon, Centre for International Relations, France)
Law & Political Economy in China's New Era (Tami Groswald Ozery, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) (cancelled)
The Ming Prince and Daoism (Richard Wang, University of Florida)
The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University (Daniel A. Bell, University of Hong Kong)
Why Re-translate a Classic? (Michael Nylan, University of California Berkeley)
Unleashing the Power of Industrial Robotics on Firm Productivity: Evidence from China (Yanhong Jin,  Rutgers)
Pests, keystone species and hungry ghosts: Human pika relations on the Tibetan plateau (Emily Yeh, University of Colorado Boulder)
14th Chinese Medieval Studies Workshop
Sixth Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy
China’s “Referendum” of 1156, Or the Wang Zhiwang Moment in the Global History of Democracy (Shoufu Yin, University of British Columbia)
Queer Moralities of Exchange: Sex, Money and Social Worth in Digital China (Yifeng Cai, Brown University)
Floating Population from Africa: Black Experience and Anti-Black Racism in China (Guangzhi Huang, Thomas Jefferson University)
Civic Education for Ethnic, National and Global Identities in China and around the World: A Dialogue
True Crimes and True Criminals: Standards of Visual Evidence in a Twelfth-Century Casebook (Ari Daniel Levine, University of Georgia/IAS) (Canceled)
A Eulogy for Scallion: Food Shortage and its Parodies during the Shanghai Covid Lockdown (Minhua Ling, Institute for Advanced Study)
Villages-in-the-City of the Pearl River Delta: An Unfinished Modernity (Zheng LIN, Sun Yat-sen University/Harvard Fairbank Center)
Mindfulness and Self-Achievement in the Life Course Perspective (Chien-Chung Huang, Rutgers School of Social Work)
The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road (Xin WEN, Princeton University)
Listing Chinese Buddhist Mountain Tourism Companies on the Stock Market: Investing Karma (Kin Cheung, Moravian University)
"Decomposition": 2023 Rutgers Program in Comparative Literature Graduate Conference
Thinking about China in Dark Times with Hannah Arendt (Yang XIAO, Kenyon College)
The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (Yuhua Wang, Harvard University)
Economic Inequality and Social and Demographic Outcomes in China (Yu XIE, Princeton University)
Sources of Revolutionary Energy: Body Politics in the Socialist Representation of Coal Mines (Xingming Wang, Rutgers Comparative Literature)
Human-to-Tiger-and-Back Transformation in Medieval Chinese Stories (Manling Luo, Indiana University Bloomington)
Film Screening with Director (Fan Popo, independent filmmaker)
Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao (Joseph Torigian, American University)
China Classroom
China Social Hour
Other China events on campus
China Lunch Hour
US-China Business Forum
"China in Chinese" Colloquium
Workshops
“Speaking of China” Lecture