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SUMMARY:Long Odds Struggles in East and Southeast Asia\, the 1910-1920s and 2010-2020s
DESCRIPTION: \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration: \n\nTo register to attend this event in-person\, please register HERE. *CU ID holders only\nTo register to attend this event online\, please register HERE.\n\nSpeaker: Jeffrey Wasserstrom\, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California\, Irvine \nIntroduction by: Lien-Hang Nguyen\, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia \nModerated by: Manan Ahmed\, Associate Professor of history at Columbia University \nDuring the first decades of the last century\, activists with ties to various parts of Asia embraced and then discarded different ideologies and found varying ways to connect with one another\, sometimes in exile. What linked them were some shared grievances\, such as a dislike of the way their community was being bullied or controlled by people in a distant capital and of the limits on their freedom to speak out on issues that concerned them and organize to bring about change. We have been seeing something similar in some ways but different in others take place now\, as activists in and exiles from Hong Kong\, Thailand and Burma take part in what is sometimes called “Milk Tea Alliance” struggles. There are obvious contrasts: importance of online connections now is novel; the Chinese state was a weak force a century ago\, but is a strong one today; Vietnamese activists were a more central part of the earlier story than the current one; ties between South Asian and East Asian exiles were more notable a century ago; and there is no contemporary counterpart to the Comintern on the scene connecting radicals. And yet\, this talk will argue\, there are important echoes of the earlier period to be heard today\, as well as much to learn about how different struggles in East and Southeast Asia influenced one another at other points in time\, such as the 1980s. This talk will focus on Chinese activists of the early 1900s and Hong Kong ones now but place both groups in comparative and transnational perspectives\, will move between the two eras with an eye toward reoccurrences\, ruptures\, and reversals. \nJeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California\, Irvine\, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Law School and in the Literary Journalism Program. He has written\, co-written\, edited\, or co-edited a dozen books\, the most recent of which are Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports\, 2020)\, which he wrote\, and The Oxford History of Modern China (2022)\, which he edited. In addition to contributing to academic journals\, he often writes for newspapers (including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times)\, magazines (such as the Atlantic)\, and literary reviews (e.g.\, the TLS and the Los Angeles Review of Books). \nManan Ahmed is a specialist in South Asia. He is an executive editor for the Journal of the History of Ideas and the author of works such as A Book of Conquest: Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia (Harvard University Press\, 2016) and The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press\, 2020)\, a book that was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize in 2021. \nThis event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. \nRefreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nJulie Kwan\njk4371@columbia.edu\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/long-odds-struggles-in-east-and-southeast-asia-the-1910-1920s-and-2010-2020s/
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SUMMARY:Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we celebrate Nicholas Bartlett‘s recent book Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China. Featuring speakers Charles Stewart\, Eugenia Lean\, Nadia Abu El-Haj\, and D. Max Moerman. \nAbout Recovering Histories: \nHeroin first reached Gejiu\, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital\, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug\, which for a short period became “easier to buy than vegetables\,” coincided with radical changes in the local economy caused by the marketization of the mining industry. More than two decades later\, both the heroin epidemic and the mining boom are often discussed as recent history. Middle-aged long-term heroin users\, however\, complain that they feel stuck in an earlier moment of the country’s rapid reforms\, navigating a world that no longer resembles either the tightly knit Maoist work units of their childhood or the disorienting but opportunity-filled chaos of their early careers. Overcoming addiction in Gejiu has become inseparable from broader attempts to reimagine laboring lives in a rapidly shifting social world. Drawing on more than eighteen months of fieldwork\, Nicholas Bartlett explores how individuals’ varying experiences of recovery highlight shared challenges of inhabiting China’s contested present. \n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/recovering-histories-life-and-labor-after-heroin-in-reform-era-china/
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SUMMARY:Office Hours (for Graduate Students)
DESCRIPTION:\nWe invite any Columbia graduate student with questions about any aspects of teaching or teaching preparation to drop by office hours\, no appointment necessary. We also welcome questions about CTL fellowships\, programs\, services\, job market preparation\, and making progress in the Teaching Development Program (tdp.ctl.columbia.edu). \nDrop in and visit us anytime today from 2 – 4 pm ET in person in 212 Butler or online at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/my/ctlgrads. \nIf you can’t make live office hours but want support\, schedule an individual consultation at http://bit.ly/ctl-gradconsult or email us at CTLgrads@columbia.edu. \n\n\nEvent Contact Information:\nCenter for Teaching and Learning\n212 854-1692\nColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu\n
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SUMMARY:Stele-statues and Manuscripts: Exploring the Buddho-Daoist Stelae of the Northern Dynasties
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gil Raz\, Dartmouth College\nTime: April 8\, 2022 (4:30-6:30 PM EST)\nVenue: Faculty House\n*Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information.\n**Please see Seminar Safety Guidelines for attendance information. \nFor a century\, between the late 5th and late 6th centuries\, new religious communities appeared in north China that consisted of Buddhist and Daoist adherents. These communities erected stelae engraved with images of the Buddha and of Lord Lao and inscribed with votive texts that merge Buddhist and Daoist discourse\, motivations\, and aspirations. \nThe Daoist images on these stelae are the earliest anthropomorphic images of Lord Lao\, the personification of the Dao. This marked a major shift in Daoist practice that counters the hitherto aniconic Daoist ritual that was based on the fundamental notion of the ineffability of the Dao. Moreover\, the votive inscriptions\, that cite the Daodejing as well as medieval Daoist scriptures\, reveal that the creators of these stelae were fully aware of the controversial theological implications of this practice. \nThe first part of this presentation will introduce the stelae as visual and material objects and discuss the development of anthropomorphic imagery in Daoist ritual practice. The second part of the presentation will explore the textual sources of some votive inscriptions\, revealing the creative use of medieval Daoist scriptures. These explorations will also alert us to crucial differences between canonical Daoist texts and Dunhuang manuscripts. Intriguingly\, exploring the Buddho-Daoist stele inscriptions will allow us to reconsider the manuscript culture of medieval China. \n\nRequest Pre-circulated Paper\n\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/stele-statues-and-manuscripts-exploring-the-buddho-daoist-stelae-of-the-northern-dynasties/
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