2017 UCLA-SJTU Summer Workshop on Chinese Archival Materials

Elizabeth Leicester (She/Her) Discussion

New Materials and Inter-disciplinary Methods of Studying 20th-century Chinese History:

Issues of Governance in Contemporary China

July 16-22, 2017

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai

Application Deadline: March 31, 2017

The UCLA Asia Pacific Center invites applications by students from all disciplines who are interested in using newly available county-level archival materials from the mid-20th century to study the formation and implementation of government policies in local situations. An ever- increasing amount of new archival material on Chinese history, especially post-1949 history, is being amassed by scholars in China. This year the University of Chicago joins in organizing this workshop, which has been held annually since 2013.  Participants will undertake intensive reading and study of a selection of such new materials collected by faculty and students at SJTU for which new scholarship in Chinese has begun to emerge. While reading archival sources is essential to historical research, these Chinese county-level materials should also be useful to anthropology, economics, political science and sociology students as well as those pursuing cultural studies in other disciplines who choose to examine the interface between discourse and political practice. An important goal of the workshop is to develop international cohorts of young scholars.

This six-day intensive summer reading and translation workshop will be held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and led jointly by Cao Shuji, Professor of History at SJTU,  R. Bin Wong, Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA, and Jacob Eyferth, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and the College, University of Chicago. The workshop is intended to serve students developing dissertation topics in an environment that brings together International and Chinese-based graduate students. Sessions will be conducted in a combination of Chinese and English languages. 

For further information, visit the UCLA Asia Pacific Center website at  http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article/148493.