China Series-Lecture 2:Prof Barbara Hendrischke, University of Erlangen – April 2014

Event Date: 02/04/2014

The China Lecture Series 2013-2014 is launched on Thursday, 19 September 2013. This lecture series has been organised in collaboration with the School of History and Archaeology and Asian Studies. A full programme of the lecture series is showing as below. Lectures are open to all.

The Problem with Borderlands: Shared Practices in Pre-modern Eastern Eurasia
Prof Naomi Standen, University of Birmingham
17:15-19:00, Thursday, 19 September 2013. Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

Problems of Knowing the Future in Late Han Dynasty China
Professor Barbara Hendrischke, Internationales Kolleg fr Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung
17:15-19:00, Thursday, 3 October 2013, Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Medical School, Teviot Place

Revisiting Cold War Propaganda: Chinese and American Feature Film Treatments of the Korean War
Professor Paul Pickowicz, University of California, San Diego
18:15-20:00, Thursday, 17 October 2013, Room 1.01, Language and Humanities Centre, 14 Buccleuch Place

China`s Peaceful Rise and Its New Diplomacy
Professor Ni Shixiong, Fudan University
17:15-19:00, Thursday, 24 October 2013, Lecture Theatre 7, 1st Floor, Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place

Social Power, State Power: Integrating Citizens through Local Connections in Contemporary China
Dr Sophia Woodman, University of Edinburgh
17:15-19:00, Wednesday, 13 November 2013, Lecture Theatre 2, Lower Ground Floor, Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place

The Beijing City Walls and the New Ming History
Dr Stephen McDowall, University of Edinburgh
17:15-19:00, Wednesday, 27 November 2013, G15, William Robertson Wing (Old Medical School)

The Skull of Confucius: A Footnote in the History of the Second China War (1860)
Professor Nick Pearce, University of Glasgow
17:15-19:00, Wednesday, 22 January 2014, G15, William Robertson Wing (Old Medical School)

Shanghai Buddhist Books and Shanghai as a Nexus of Chinese Buddhist Publishing in the 1930s
Dr Gregory Scott, University of Edinburgh
17:15-19:00, Wednesday, 5 February 2014, G16, Medical School Teviot

Defending Shanghai: The Shanghai International Settlement in Times of Turmoil, c. 1923-43
Dr Isabella Jackson, University of Aberdeen
17:15-19:00, Wednesday, 12 February 2014, G15, William Robertson Wing (Old Medical School)

The Smell of the Other: China under the Western nose, 1800-1949
Dr Huang Xuelei, University of Edinburgh
17:15-19:00, Wednesday, 26 February 2014, G16, Medical School Teviot

Drought in Northwest China: A Late Victorian Tragedy?
Dr Andrea Janku, SOAS
17:15-19:00, Wednesday, 5 March 2014, G16, Medical School Teviot

From Executions to Education: Traitor Elimination Work in Shandong Province, 1938-1947
Dr Konrad Lawson, University of St. Andrews
17.05-19.00, Wednesday, 19 March 2014, G15, William Robertson Wing (Old Medical School)

Chinese Capitalism? Recent Debates and Their Intellectual Contexts
Prof Dominic Sachsenmeier, University of Bremen
17:15-19:00, Wednesday, 2 April 2014, G16, Medical School Teviot