Seminars, Reading Groups, and Members Talks
Spring & Summer Semester 2025
All sessions held on Zoom. Zoom link and readings sent out via the mailing list.
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March 27th
12:30 PT, 15:30 ET, 19:30 GMT
Online Reading Group
Jin Huan, The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880 (2024), Ch. 6 and Conclusion
Jin Huan, ‘Authenticating the Renewed Heavenly Vision: The Taiping Heavenly Chronicle (Taiping tianri)’, Frontiers of History in China (2018): 173-192
Suggested further reading:
Vincent Goossaert, ‘Competing Eschatological Scenarios during the Taiping War, 1851–1864’ in Hans-Christian Lehner (ed.), The End(s) of Time(s) : Apocalypticism, Messianism, and Utopianism through the Ages (2021), Ch. 10
April 17th
11:00 PT, 14:00 ET, 19:00 BST
Online Reading Group
Mario Cams, ‘Reimagining Qing Space: Yongzheng’s Eurasian Atlas (1727–29)’, Late Imperial China (2021): 93-129
Wonmook Kang, ‘Xenophobia Among Han Chinese Elites in the High Qing’, Late Imperial China (2024): 81-111
May 29th
9:00 PT, 12:00 ET, BST 17:00
Member Talk
Soohyun Lee, ‘The Impact of the Late Qing New Policies Reforms in Hunan’
June 26th
Time TBC
Online Seminar
Dr. Ori Sela (Tel Aviv University), ‘The Qing Confucian Laozi’
July 31st
9:00 PT, 12:00 ET, BST 17:00
Online Seminar
Dr. Joo-hyeon Oh (University of Minnesota Twin Cities), ‘TBC’
Fall Semester 2024
All sessions held on Zoom at: 9:00 PT, 12:00 ET, GMT/BST 17:00
Sept. 26th
Introduction and Online Reading Group
Ori Sela, ‘The Textual Time Machine: Truth, Facts, and the Shuowen, 1770–1932’, in Sela et al. (eds), Time and Language (2023), pp. 204-219
Oct. 31st
Online Seminar
Kai-Wing Chow (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), ‘Zhang Xuecheng’s Theory of History and Ritualism in Qing Thought’
Nov. 20th
Online Seminar
Jean Tsui (City University of New York), ‘Affect and emotion in late Qing China’
Dec. 19th
Online Reading Group
Mårten Söderblom Saarela, The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor (2024), Chs. 6 and 7, ‘Philological Scholarship in Manchu’ and ‘Footnotes to Early Qing History’, pp. 157-225
Jan. 23rd
Member Talk
Woohee Park, ‘Whose Injustice, Which Punishment? Reconceptualizing Morality in the Debate over the New Criminal Code of the Great Qing, 1906-1911‘
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