H-PRC is the H-Net presence of the PRC History Group, a network of scholars with interests in the history of the People’s Republic of China. We define history broadly, to encompass a wide variety of disciplinary approaches, and we understand the history of the PRC to include eras prior to the official change of state power in 1949.
Dear colleagues,
I am trying to locate contemporary (since 1980) English/French ethnographies of the Hungry Ghost Festival (yu lan jie 盂兰节/ zhong yuan jie 中元节) in China.
Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Isabel Essebag
(Graduate Student, McGill University)
Dear Colleagues,
I'm thinking of organizing a panel tentatively titled "Doing Early PRC History from an Intersectional Perspective" for next AAS. Prof. Felix Wemheuer has agreed to give a theoretical paper suggesting how an intersectional approach could bring parochial investigations in productive dialogue with each other.
Dear all,
I am in the process of setting up an interdisciplinary panel for AAS 2017 (Toronto, March 16-19, 2017) with the tentative title of “socialist cultural remnants in post-socialist China”. It will examine the material and cultural remnants that once created an affective environment and still shape the social and cultural life of the PRC. Ideally, the panel will feature both historians and literature/culture study scholars.
Date: 30th June – 1st July 2016.
Location: University of Kent, United Kingdom.
Registration site: https://kenthospitality.kent.ac.uk/Register/Chinaspropaganda
Registration closes: 16th June 2016.
Purpose of the conference:
It normally takes those of us who are non-native speakers of the Chinese language quite a long time to develop a ”feel” for the insignificance of certain minor terminological differences in official PRC documents. What I have in mind are not the kind of subtle differences that gave rise to Pekingology, but in a sense their opposite: those that we in the end may safely decide don’t mean all that much.
“The Chinese Civil War and the Cold War: the Regional Impact”
International Conference
Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
October 27-29, 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
Dear all,
I just looked at the online journal JIYI. The first article in no.154
mentions QIu Chun who seems to be the father of the writer Qiu Ran.
Has anyone studied them or their works?
Who was the mother?
Are there more articles on them in the online journals?
Thanks,
Thomas Kampen
Dear H-PRC listserv members,
Below are my very fragmented notes concerning recent resources, publications, etc. that I have seen circulating in the digital sphere. I'm posting them in part to encourage others to "fill in the blanks" as they see appropriate, either in the thread created by this discussion or in separate posts.
Dear all,
my personal "document of the month" would have been a 1927 student list of Yanjing U
which includes Zhang Fang. the main Chinese assistant of Richard Sorge in Shanghai
( http://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/UnitedBoard/Yenching_University/RG011-309-4762.pdf )
More info:
Mr. Zhang and his memoirs
