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‘