China in Revolution: A Two-Day Conference
The University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center Presents China in Revolution: A Two Day Conference. Held on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 14-15 in the Oaklander Hotel in Pittsburgh, the ASC will present a conference on modern Chinese history culminating with a keynote presentation by Dr. Joseph W. Esherick on his new book China in Revolution: History Lessons. Dr. Esherick is an Emeritus Professor of modern Chinese history at the University of California, San Diego and has close personal relations to Pitt's Asian Studies Center. Breakfast and Lunch will be provided to participants. The itinerary is as follows:
China in Revolution
March 14-15, 2023
The Oaklander Hotel, The Charles Room
March 14, 2023
Breakfast: 8:00-8:30, The Oaklander Hotel, The Charles Room
Opening Remarks: Joseph Alter, Director of Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh
Governing China 9:00-12:00
Chair: Madeleine Dong (University of Washington)
Xiaowei Zheng (University of California, Santa Barbara): Liberalism and 20th century Chinese Sinology
Jenny Haungfu Day (Skidmore College): Republican China’s Quest for Judicial Sovereignty and the Criminalization of Communism
Elya J. Zhang (Independent Scholar) : Socialist China’s 1949 Sovereign Default and Its Legal Aftermath
(Coffee Break: 11:00-11:30, The Oaklander Hotel, The Charles Room)
Lunch: 12:00-1:00, The Oaklander Hotel, The Charles Room (For Participants Only)
Global China 1:00-4:00
Chair: Michael Chang (George Mason University)
Remote
Daria Ho (University of Waterloo): The Qing Empire and the South China Sea: When is One More “Mediterranean” or “Silk Road” Comparison Too Many?
David Cheng Chang (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology): Between Worlds: China’s WWII Interpreters and Their Divergent Fates in China, Taiwan, and the United States
(Coffee Break: 3:00-3:30, The Oakland Hotel, The Charles Room)
Keynote: 4:00-5:30
Paul Pickowicz (Emeritus Professor, University of California, San Diego): Women in Chinese Silent Cinema
Location for Women in Chinese Silent Cinema: 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
March 15, 2023
Breakfast: 8:00-8:30, The Oaklander Hotel, The Charles Room
Re-Sourcing China: Engaging Nature, Digitizing the Past 9:00-12:00
Chair: Charles Musgrove (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) Remote
Judd Kinzley (University of Wisconsin, Madison): Hog Bristles, Tungsten, and the Formation of a Postwar Chinese Business Overclass
Sigrid Schmalzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Chinese Medicine Agriculture: To Taste 100 Herbs and Cure 800 Orange Trees
Jeremy Brown (Simon Fraser University): Officers, Rebels, and Rightists: Building a Digital Archive of PRC History Sources
(Coffee Break: 11:00-11:30, The Oakland Hotel, The Charles Room)
Lunch: 12:00-1:00, The Oaklander Hotel, The Charles Room (For Participants Only)
Minds, Bodies, and the Chinese Body Politic 1:00-4:00
Chair: Chris Hess (Sophia University)
Susan Fernsebner (University of Mary Washington): What's in a Line? Chen Heqin (1892-1982), Child Psychology, and Children's Drawings in 1920’s China
(Remote Presentation)
Emily Baum (University of California, Irvine): Acupuncture and 'Needle Diplomacy': From the Cold War to COVID-19
Miriam Gross (University of Oklahoma): From Denial to Crusade: Deciphering the Early Policy Reversal for COVID-19
(Coffee Break: 3:00-3:30, The Oakland Hotel, The Charles Room)
Keynote: 4:00-5:30
Joseph W. Esherick (Emeritus Professor, University of California, San Diego) China in Revolution: The Long Twentieth Century