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SUMMARY:The Pictograph and a Pun: China’s Role as Rogue in Modern Intellectual Property
DESCRIPTION:Seminar format: online. \nBy 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 trial in China held in 1889. In that trial\, it became evident that the emerging global trademark regime was premised on an Orientalist understanding of the Chinese character as ideograph. A second case in 1919 that also featured the alleged counterfeiting of the Xiangmao brand then reveals how the homophonic nature of Chinese and the issue of dialect were often the basis of wordplay and punning in Chinese trademarks\, and that international trademark law was unable to accommodate these practices. The key legal premise that an offending trademark rested on its function to deceive the public prevented the system from recognizing (and thus\, successfully prosecuting) marks that while likely to have been emulative\, turned precisely on a knowing audience\, willing to purchase the “counterfeit” because of the witty pun or wordplay at work. Both bring to the fore how the emerging trademark regime was premised on romance languages and failed to appreciate the complexity of both the Chinese language and the nature of the Chinese consumer market. Hardly marks that purposefully deceived in acts of “passing off\,” so-called “spurious” marks aided (and arguably abetted) knowledgeable and appreciative consumers in their wily acts of consumption and were part of a larger market of rogue knock-offs in China that eluded the emerging trademark regime in the early twentieth-century and that continue to elude the global IP today. \nEugenia Lean (林郁沁) is a Professor of Chinese History\, East Asian Languages and Cultures Department and Director of Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Eugenia Lean received her PhD (2001) from the University of California\, Los Angeles. She published two books: Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China (University of California Press\, 2007) and Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire\, 1900-1940 (Columbia UP\, 2020). A third book project\, titled Making the Chinese Copycat\, focuses on China’s involvement in shaping twentieth-century global regimes of intellectual property rights from trademark infringement to patenting \nREGISTER \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/the-pictograph-and-a-pun-chinas-role-as-rogue-in-modern-intellectual-property/
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SUMMARY:Spectral Belonging: Artisanal Reproduction of Landscape Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Tombs
DESCRIPTION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room\, Columbia University\nThis event will take place in person at the Heyman Center and virtually over Zoom. \nIn 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 a well-off merchant and local elite family with sir name Li. The most stunning feature of the Li family tombs is their close replication of aboveground house structures and the naturalistic representations of architectural decor\, wooden compartments\, scroll paintings\, calligraphic couplets\, screens\, embroidered valances\, furniture\, and other decorative objects. The pictorial details of landscape painting or in Chinese shanshui hua (mountain and water painting) and the material forms of hanging scrolls and screen panels are especially striking as these are meticulously reproduced on the surface of the limestone. Chinese archeologists of Li Family cemetery have considered these lavish underground structures and decorations reveal tomb occupants’ longing for continuity of above ground lives and hence imitated the above ground physical space and material objects. However\, a close examination of the details of relief suggests that the approaches of duplicating the worldly things for the dead cannot fully explain various alterations made by the tomb designers and artisans. This talk suggests that we can understand these alternations more fully through examining how a spectral belonging was created on the surface of limestone. In particular\, I will focus on a material turn taken through transmedial practice\, namely from painting and prints to stone carving. \nYuhang Li (PhD\, University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of Chinese Art in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests cover a wide range subjects and mediums related to gender and material practice in late imperial China\, mimesis and devotional practice\, textile art\, and paper as an efficacious medium. She is the author of Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press\, 2020)\, which was awarded the 2021 Religion and the Arts Book Award by the American Academy of Religion. She also co-curated and co-edited with Judith Zeitlin the exhibition and resulting catalog Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture (Smart Museum and University of Chicago Press\, 2014). \nAttendance at SOF/Heyman events will follow Columbia-issued guidelines as they continue to develop. Given the current recommendations\, we plan to allow in-person attendance for COLUMBIA AFFILIATES only. For everyone else\, we’re planning to livestream this event\, allowing for virtual attendance. \nThis event also will be recorded. By being electronically present\, you consent to the SOF/Heyman using such video for promotional purposes. \nPlease email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/spectral-belonging-artisanal-reproduction-of-landscape-imagery-in-nineteenth-century-chinese-tombs/
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SUMMARY:Toward an Intellectual History of Vietnam - A Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nRegistration: \n\nTo register to attend this event in-person\, please register HERE. \nTo register to attend this event online\, please register HERE.\n\nSpeakers: \nMartina Nguyen\, Associate Professor of History\, Baruch College \nClaire Edington\, Associate Professor of History\, University of California\, San Diego \nDuy Lap Nguyen\, Assistant Professor of World Cultures and Literatures \nYen Vu\, Postdoctoral Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University \nModerator: \nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia \nThis event will be a book talk of Martina Nguyen’s latest book On Our Own Strength. The questions that orient the event are: What does a Vietnamese intellectual history look like? How does it contribute or challenge existing understandings of intellectual history\, in both local and global senses? While these two events are distinct\, they work toward establishing a subdiscipline that has yet to be defined in Vietnam Studies. Intellectual history\, which comes from a European tradition\, has predominantly focused on ideas in relation to philosophy\, reserved for erudites distanced from the masses. Only more recently has ‘global intellectual history’ emerged to valorize different sources of epistemological contribution around the world\, to encourage new perspectives and connections. In the case of Vietnam\, so much of Vietnamese intellectual activity (at least in the modern context) is inextricable to nationalism\, cultural exchange\, societal transformations. At the core of major on-the-ground transitions is in fact a negotiation and discussion of ideas both from within and without. If we return to this fundamental understanding of intellectual history\, as a transformation of ideas\, then we are able to see how Vietnam’s intellectual activity offers an understanding of intellectual history that is integral to the making and shaping of social and political history. Such an event is important to continue to place Columbia as a burgeoning center for Vietnam Studies. \nThe presentation of Martina Nguyen’s book is a clear example of how intellectual activity permeates social and political movements\, and how intellectuals themselves were the main actors for radical political parties. The talk will be followed by short comments by the guests\, informed by their own work on various ideas and their transformations\, including the epistemology of medicine\, and the importation of continental philosophy in Vietnam. \nThis event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nJulie Kwan\njk4371@columbia.edu\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/toward-an-intellectual-history-of-vietnam-a-book-talk/
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SUMMARY:Pandemic Changes: Cholera in Nineteenth Century Japan
DESCRIPTION:Guest speaker: Professor William Johnston\, John E. Andrus Professor of History\, Wesleyan University \nThursday\, 28 April 2022 at 6:00 PM EST \nThe 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 a pandemic with a case fatality rate of 70 percent for untreated cases. In other words\, 700 of every 1\,000 persons who get the disease die. That is the case fatality rate for untreated cholera\, and in the nineteenth century there were no effective treatments for the disease\, which swept around the globe on multiple occasions. This talk examines how cholera changed Japan and how the Japanese responded to the disease. \nREGISTER \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/pandemic-changes-cholera-in-nineteenth-century-japan-2/
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