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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Micah Muscolino — Remaking the Earth\, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Micah Muscolino\, Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History\, University of California San Diego \n\n\n\nFrom 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 the Chinese state imposed the burden of conservation on rural communities and they navigated those demands. Weaving together archival research and oral history interviews\, Muscolino’s multitiered investigation uncovers relationships between the forces of nature\, Chinese state policies\, and the embodied experiences of rural men and women. This approach highlights the contestations and compromises that the state’s environmental interventions triggered in rural society. Because modern China’s revolutionary transformations altered human relationships with the natural world\, as Muscolino demonstrates\, understanding that history from the perspectives of China’s common people requires sustained attention to their everyday interactions with the environment. \n\n\n\nMicah Muscolino is Professor and Pickowicz Endowed Chair in modern Chinese history at the University of California\, San Diego. His publications include Remaking the Earth\, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China (University of Washington Press\, 2025) and the forthcoming edited volume Revolutionary Natures: Grassroots Environmental Histories of China’s Mao Era (University of Washington Press\, 2026).   \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-micah-muscolino/
LOCATION:Room K354\, CGIS Knafel\, 1737 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:FCCS Modern China,Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:***POSTPONED*** Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era
DESCRIPTION:***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 regimes\, particularly in China. He is particularly interested in the formation and functioning of political parties and institutions in authoritarian regimes across both historical and contemporary contexts. Xiaobo Lü earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2011. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-xiaobo-lu-domination-and-mobilization-the-rise-and-fall-of-political-parties-in-chinas-republican-era/
CATEGORIES:FCCS Modern China,Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture featuring Joseph Ho — Developing Mission: Photography\, Filmmaking\, and American Missionaries in Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Joseph Ho\, Associate Professor of History\, Albion College\, Michigan; Center Associate\, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, University of Michigan  \n\n\n\nDeveloping 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 Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People’s Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China\, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia\, became\, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded\, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience\, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Developing Mission illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China\, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so\, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers\, subjects\, and viewers across twentieth-century China. \n\n\n\nJoseph W. Ho is Associate Professor of History at Albion College\, Michigan\, and a Center Associate at the University of Michigan’s Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. He is a historian of modern China and Taiwan\, Sino-US encounters\, and transnational visual culture and media. He has published essays on his research in several edited volumes\, as well as the UCLA Historical Journal\, U.S. Catholic Historian\, and Education About Asia. Ho is the author of Developing Mission: Photography\, Filmmaking\, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press\, 2022).Also Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y84X7LHMSTe1bqk20XXmgQ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-featuring-joseph-ho-developing-mission-photography-filmmaking-and-american-missionaries-in-modern-china/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:FCCS Modern China
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture featuring Tong Lam — Let the Ore Speak: Extractivism and China’s Early Cold War Mobilization
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tong Lam\,  Associate Professor\, Department of History\, University of Toronto \n\n\n\nFrom Chairman Mao’s “receiving” of an ore in Zhongnanhai to the nationwide mapping of mineral resources and the mass movement for sighting and reporting minerals\, the 1950s marked the beginning of what could be described as China’s age of extractivism. The intensifying interactions between humans and nonhumans in socialist China had profound global and planetary consequences that continue to resonate today.Tong Lam’s research areas include the modern and contemporary history of China\, science and technology\, politics and aesthetics\, urbanism\, and empire. His first book\, A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State\, 1900-1949 (2011)\, analyzes the profound consequences of the emergence of the technology of the “social fact” and social survey research in modern China. Professor Lam’s current research examines China’s urban infrastructures\, ruins and ruination\, as well as the renewed imperial ambitions of the later Qing empire. As a visual artist\, he uses photographic and cinematographic techniques to dissect contemporary China’s transformation\, as well as Cold War ruins around the world. He has published a photo-essay book\, Abandoned Futures (2013)\, and has exhibited his work internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-featuring-tong-lam/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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