The PRC History Group is pleased to announce a new issue in the PRC History Review Book Review Series. Bin Xu reviews Emily Honig and Xiaojian Zhao's Across the Great Divide: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968-1980 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019), with a response from the authors: http://prchistory.org/prc-history-review/
The PRC History Group is pleased to announce a new issue in the PRC History Review Book Review Series. Jay Ke-Schutte reviews Daniel F. Vukovich's Illiberal China: The Ideological Challenge of the People's Republic of China (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), with a response from the author: http://prchistory.org/prc-history-review/
Call for Applications: MA in Modern China Studies, University of Freiburg (Germany)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the deadline for non-EU students has been extended to June 15, 2020.
Further information on 2020 deadlines and submission of documents can be found on the MA program website: https://www.sinologie.uni-freiburg.de/studium-en/masterprogram/maadmission
Hi everyone,
I just read a recently published PRC history article in a journal that was not on my radar screen--in case you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend this piece:
J. M. Chris Chang, “Paper Affairs: Discipline by the Dossier in a Mao-Era Work Unit,” Administory 4, no. 1 (2019): 125–40.
Sincerely,
Jeremy Brown
Dear colleagues,
This new publication may be of interest to H-PRC List members.
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The PRC History Group is pleased to announce a new issue in the PRC History Review Book Review Series. Chris Courtney reviews Christian Sorace's Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017). This review is especially timely as, in his reply, Sorace compares China's response to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to the current handling of the novel Coronavirus: http://prchistory.org/prc-history-review/
Call for papers: Practices of Reading in the People’s Republic of China
ERC Project "Politics of Reading in the People’s Republic of China"
University of Freiburg
Freiburg (Germany), Dec. 9-11, 2020
This new publication may be of interest to H-PRC List members.
Xiaoning Lu, Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966) (Leiden: Brill 2020)
The PRC History Group is pleased to announce a new issue in the PRC History Review Book Review Series. Sarah Mellors reviews Mary Augusta Brazelton's Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019), with a response from the author: http://prchistory.org/prc-history-review/
