China

Virtual Lecture: Guolong Lai -- "The Diagram of the Taiyi Incantation from Mawangdui: the Interplay between Text and Image in Early China" (On Altars of Soil Lecture Series)

As part of the lecture series "On Altars of Soil: Unearthing New Narratives in Early Chinese History," the Indiana University East Asian Studies Center Colloquium, with the co-sponsorship of the Tang Center for Early China, presents the following virtual lecture on Friday, November 5, 2021 from 12 noon to 1:15 PM EST:

Book Talk - Peter Zarrow, _Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880-1940_, Wednesday November 10 12:15-1:15 EST (Zoom)

Focusing on four key Chinese intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, Abolishing Boundaries offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought. These four intellectuals—Kang Youwei, Cai Yuanpei, Chen Duxiu, and Hu Shi—were deeply familiar with the Confucian and Buddhist classical texts, while also interested in the West’s utopian literature of the late nineteenth century as well as Kant and the neo-Kantians, Marxists, and John Dewey and new liberalism, respectively.

Lecture, Jim Harkness, "From scarcity to excess: food, economy and society in the PRC"

Jim Harkness, China Country Director, National Geographic Society

"From scarcity to excess: food, economy and society in the PRC”

November 3rd, Wednesday, noon, PST.

Lecture: Jim Harkness, "Food security in modern China"

Jim Harkness, China Country Director, National Geographic Society

"From scarcity to excess: food, economy and society in Modern China”

November 3rd, Wednesday, noon, PST.

Post-doc positions: Chinese Modernity and Soft Power on the Belt and Road; Religion and the BRI

Postdoctoral Fellow / Senior Research Assistant posts at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong

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