History

April 4 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Adrian Zenz – Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy

Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow and Director in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Since the start of Beijing’s campaign of interning Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in its …

Adrian Zenz – Xinjiang Update: What New Documents Tell Us About Beijing’s Evolving Internment Policy

October 17, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Urban China Series featuring Toby Lincoln – Out of the Rubble of World War II: Reconstruction in China in Comparative Perspective

Speaker: Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester. This paper explores urban reconstruction in China after WWII, and argues that this was …

Urban China Series featuring Toby Lincoln – Out of the Rubble of World War II: Reconstruction in China in Comparative Perspective

November 3, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions

Speaker: Taisu Zhang, Professor of Law and History, Yale University How states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science, legal theory, economics, sociology, …

Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions

November 29, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu – The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan

Speaker: Linh Vu, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University This talk focuses on (1) the politics of martyr commemoration in Republican China (1911–1949) and (2) the governance of the posthumous identities of …

Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu – The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan

November 17, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Modern China Lecture Series featuring Benno Weiner – This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion! The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China

Speaker: Benno Weiner, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Through much of the 1950s, the Chinese Communist Party considered disunity between ethnocultural groups (minzu)primarilyto be a product of “great nationality chauvinism,” …

Modern China Lecture Series featuring Benno Weiner – This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion! The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China

September 20, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Panel Discussion – Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present

Speakers:Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paolo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School; Faculty Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor …

Panel Discussion – Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present