[Folkserv] Congratulations to Dr. Liu!

[Noyes, Dorothy]

Congratulations to Dr. Wei Liu, who just defended her masterful dissertation “The Confucian Revival as ‘Bloodline Memory’: Transmitting a Lineage Tradition in Contemporary Huizhou, China.” Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as close readings of diaries, letters, and genealogies, the study examines exemplarity and surround as twin mechanisms of cultural transmission that have sustained the subjective authority of a rural region’s neo-Confucian lineage ideology across several generations of radical social change. Pushing back against a large body of recent scholarship on the invented traditions of contemporary China, Wei argues that the past cannot be completely instrumentalized by the present, but retains its own claims on individuals. Wei’s committee consisted of Mark Bender (chair), Meow Hui Goh, Patricia Sieber, and Dorry Noyes.

Dorry

Dorothy Noyes

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Studies
Senior Faculty Fellow, The Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Core Faculty, The Center for Folklore Studies
The Ohio State University noyes.10 at osu.edu<mailto:noyes.10 at osu.edu>


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