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Revolutionary Routine Part I: Sources from the Fudan CCSLD Research Center
09/20/2019 @ 9:30 am - 11:45 am
This multi-day workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to undertake intensive reading and discussion of selected ‘grassroots sources’ from the Fudan Social Life Data and Research Center. Through systematic readings of family letters, personnel dossiers, private diaries, work notes, and work unit archives, we explore questions of how the routines of political Maoism were enacted, mediated, and performed in the most mundane settings of Maoist society.
In Part I of this two-day event, Professor Zhang Letian and Professor Li Tian of Fudan University will introduce the Contemporary China Social Life Data Collection, one of the largest collections of grassroots historical sources in the world. These introductory talks will present on the development of the CCSLD collection, along with a curated selection of its materials, to explain the basis of new empirical approaches to the historical study of Maoist society and commune life. (Presentations in Mandarin)
About the Speakers:
Zhang Letian, Professor, School of Social Work, Fudan University
Zhang Letian is the founding Director of the Contemporary China Social Life Data Research Center at Fudan University, where he teaches and conducts research in the fields of commune studies, urban anthropology, and social work. A pioneer of contemporary Chinese history, he is the author of several books, including Farewell to Ideals: A Study of the Institution of People’s Communes 告别理想:人民公社制度研究.
Li Tian, Assistant Professor, CCSLD Research Center, Fudan University
Li Tian is an Assistant Professor and research fellow at the the CCSLD Research Center. His first monograph, Regional Configuration and Social Change in Late Imperial Ningguo Prefecture 明清宁国府区域格局与社会变迁, is published by Fudan University Press. Dr. Li is currently the principal investigator of a project on the transformation and decline of regional merchant networks in the 1950s, funded by the Chinese National Endowment for the Social Sciences.
