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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems\, Politics\, and Institutions
DESCRIPTION:read the transcript here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Taisu Zhang\, Professor of Law and History\, Yale UniversityHow states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science\, legal theory\, economics\, sociology\, and history. Increasingly\, scholars believe that China’s relative economic decline in the 18th and 19th centuries was related to its weak fiscal institutions and limited revenue. This book argues that this fiscal weakness was fundamentally ideological in nature. Belief systems created through a confluence of traditional political ethics and the trauma of dynastic change imposed unusually deep and powerful constraints on fiscal policymaking and institutions throughout the final 250 years of China’s imperial history. Through the Qing example\, the book combs through several interaction dynamics between state institutions and ideologies. The latter shapes the former\, but the former can also significantly reinforce the political durability of the latter\, in the Qing case by artificially limiting the production of economic information that could have been used to challenge fiscal conservatism. \n\n\n\nTaisu Zhang is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and works on comparative legal and economic history\, private law theory\, and contemporary Chinese law and politics. His first book\, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England\, was published by Cambridge University Press\, and received the 2018 Presidents Award from the Social Science History Association and the 2018 Gaddis Smith Book Prize from the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. A second book\, The Ideological Foundations of the Qing Fiscal State\, is in progress. He has published articles and book chapters on a wide array of topics\, winning awards from several academic organizations\, and is a regular essayist on Chinese law\, society\, and politics in media outlets. \n\n\n\nZhang is a Global Faculty member at Peking University Law School and is the current president of the International Society for Chinese Law and History. He has also taught at the Duke University School of Law\, the University of Hong Kong\, Brown University\, and the Tsinghua University School of Law.  He holds a secondary appointment at Yale as Professor of History.Read the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems\, Politics\, and Institutions”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-taisu-zhang/
LOCATION:Room S030\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Benno Weiner - This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion! The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China
DESCRIPTION:Read the Transcript Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Benno Weiner\, Associate Professor\, Carnegie Mellon UniversityThrough much of the 1950s\, the Chinese Communist Party considered disunity between ethnocultural groups (minzu)primarilyto be a product of “great nationality chauvinism\,” which refered to exploitation committed in the past by the Han majority against “minority nationalities.” In parts of China’s Northwest\, however\, the Party identified Hui Muslim elites\, not Han\, to be the main agents of nationality exploitation and Tibetans to be their principal targets. It therefore declared Tibetans of all classes to be a priori victims of nationality exploitation. By contrast\,because Hui were considered to be both victims and traffickers of nationality exploitation\, the regional leadership ordered “good” Muslims be distinguished from “bad.” While echoing Qing and even Republican-era practices of labeling Muslim communities and responding to rebellion\, I argue that its 1950s permeation must be understood within the CCP’s own practices of minoritization and frameworks for conceptualizing the new socialist nation-state. All of which was made more urgent by a string of uprisings that between late-1949 and mid-1953 engulfed several Muslim-majority areas along the Qinghai-Gansu Highlands and spilled into the Tibetan and Mongol-dominated grasslands to their south. \n\n\n\nDr. Weiner is a historian of Modern China\, Tibet and Inner Asia. His research revolves around China’s contested and possibly incomplete transition from empire to nation-state and in particular the processes and problematics of twentieth-century state and nation building within China’s ethnic minority regions. Before joining CMU\, he taught at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. \n\n\n\nDr. Weiner’s first book\, The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (Cornell UP\, 2020)\, is among the first major studies of a “nationality minority region” during the formative years of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)\, and the first to examine early efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to integrate the vast region known to Tibetans as Amdo into the PRC. Applying the theoretical lens of imperial transition to the methodology of local history\, it argues that in 1950s Amdo Party leaders implicitly understood both the administrative and epistemological obstacles to transforming a vast multiethnic empire into a unitary\, socialist nation-state. For much of the decade the CCP therefore employed a “subimperial” strategy\, referred to as the United Front\, as a means to “gradually\,” “voluntarily\,” and “organically” bridge this gap between empire and nation. However\, the United Front ultimately lost out to a revolutionary impatience that demanded immediate national integration and socialist transformation. This led in 1958 to communization\, “democratic reforms\,” and large-scale rebellion. Despite successfully identifying the tensions between empire and nation\, and attempting to creatively resolve them\, empire was eliminated before the process of de-imperialization and nationalization was completed. Like so many of the world’s most intractable conflicts\, he therefore contends that at the root of the Sino-Tibetan conflict lies the unresolved legacy of empire.Read the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Modern China Lecture Series featuring Benno Weiner – This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion! The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-benno-weiner-this-absolutely-is-not-a-hui-rebellion-the-ethnopolitics-of-great-nationality-chauvinism-in-early-maoist-china/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S354\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu - The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Linh Vu\, Assistant Professor\, Arizona State University \n\n\n\nThis talk focuses on (1) the politics of martyr commemoration in Republican China (1911–1949) and (2) the governance of the posthumous identities of the Nationalist Chinese dead in contemporary Taiwan. The Chinese Republic laid the foundation for the modern nation-state through the governance of these millions of war dead. In addition\, the commemoration of war martyrs has been the unifying and consolidating force in the formation of national identity and sovereignty in a place with complicated status such as Taiwan. My case studies of China during the Republican era and Taiwan in recent decades demonstrate how the power of the dead necessitates that political\, social\, and cultural institutions develop the means to control the way by which they are remembered. The dead are invested with significance to constitute the national spirit\, to affirm political legitimacy\, and to recreate social coherence and temporal continuity. \n\n\n\nLinh Vu is an assistant professor of history in the School of Historical\, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University\, Tempe\, Arizona\, USA. Her first book\, Governing the Dead: Martyrs\, Memorials\, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China (Cornell University Press\, 2021)\, examines the efforts of the Chinese nation-state to record\, commemorate\, and compensate military and civilian dead and how such efforts transformed China’s social and cultural institutions.This event also available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6yUmfHCUSRy5_1M2doG8ow \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu – The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-linh-vu/
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