Seminars, Reading Groups, and Members Talks

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. 30th

Member Talk

Woohee Park, ‘Whose Injustice, Which Punishment? Reconceptualizing Morality in the Debate over the New Criminal Code of the Great Qing, 1906-1911‘