Latest Past Events

Modern China Lecture Series featuring Micah Muscolino — Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China

Room K354, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge

Speaker: Micah Muscolino, Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, University of California San Diego From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures remade both the arid, erosion-prone landscape of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people. Drawing from his recent book, Micah Muscolino discusses how

***POSTPONED*** Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era

***DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THIS TALK IS POSTPONED UNTIL A FUTURE DATE***Speaker: Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, BerkeleyXiaobo Lü is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the relationships between fiscal policies, party-building, and state-society relations in authoritarian

Modern China Lecture featuring Joseph Ho — Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Speaker: Joseph Ho, Associate Professor of History, Albion College, Michigan; Center Associate, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan Developing Mission is a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space – tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the