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7:00 am
The Pictograph and a Pun: China’s Role as Rogue in Modern Intellectual Property
Seminar format: online. By examining two early legal cases featuring the alleged counterfeiting of Xiangmao Honey Soap, this talk shows how the Chinese language and linguistic practices in Chinese commercial culture often stymied Western manufacturers and import companies’ attempts to pursue and prosecute suspected Chinese copycats. Xiangmao soap was featured in the first ever trademark litigation […]
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Spectral Belonging: Artisanal Reproduction of Landscape Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Tombs
The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University This event will take place in person at the Heyman Center and virtually over Zoom. In 2001, five extravagant nineteenth century stone-carved tombs were excavated in Bayu Village of Dali County in Shaanxi Province, an inland region in northwest China. These underground eternal residences belonged to […]
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Toward an Intellectual History of Vietnam – A Book Talk
Registration: To register to attend this event in-person, please register HERE. To register to attend this event online, please register HERE. Speakers: Martina Nguyen, Associate Professor of History, Baruch College Claire Edington, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego Duy Lap Nguyen, Assistant Professor of World Cultures and Literatures Yen Vu, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian […]
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Pandemic Changes: Cholera in Nineteenth Century Japan
Guest speaker: Professor William Johnston, John E. Andrus Professor of History, Wesleyan University Thursday, 28 April 2022 at 6:00 PM EST The ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 has a case fatality rate in the United States of approximately 1.6 percent—which is to say that around 16 of every 1,000 persons with the disease have died. Imagine […]
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