MCLC: Unpacking China conference

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Dylan Suher <dylan.suher at gmail.com>
Subject: Unpacking China conference
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Symposium Announcement: Unpacking China—April 25th-April 26th, 2014 at
Harvard University

Unpacking China: An International Symposium
Sponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, the Harvard-Yenching
Institute, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
April 25th – April 26th at Harvard University

CGIS South Building. Room S050
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Symposium website (including schedule):
http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/unpacking%20china

Is China, as Lucian Pye once described it, a "civilization pretending to
be a state" or as modern and cohesive a nation-state as any other? Does
China include the "eighteen provinces" of the Qing Empire, or does it
barely extend past the Central Plain? Is there a variety of Chinese
dialects or are there several Sinitic languages? Recent scholarship in
both Sinophone and Anglophone spheres has come increasingly to treat
“China” and Chineseness as intellectual problems deserving of careful,
critical consideration from a range of disciplines, among them history,
political science, anthropology, sociology, literature, and linguistics.
This symposium will bring together scholars and students from diverse
disciplinary backgrounds to define problems, raise concerns, offer
approaches and ideas, and evaluate prior research on the matter of China
as an imaginary, as an object of knowledge, and as an object of cognition.
Participation is by invitation only.

Keynote Address: Ge Zhaoguang, “纳'四裔'入'中华'？”

Participants

Scholars: Peter Bol (Harvard University);Yan Dai (Fudan University);
Josephine Duke (University of British Columbia); Michael Duke (University
of British Columbia); Mark Elliott (Harvard University); Zhaoguang Ge
(Fudan University); Cho-yun Hsu (University of Pittsburgh); Mr. Da-jen Liu
(New York City); Yu-lin Lee (National Chung-hsing University); Mr. Xiaohe
Ma, (Harvard Yenching Library); Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania);
Chia-ling Mei (National Taiwan University); Jing Tsu (Yale University);
David Wang (Harvard University); Rudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg);
Peter Zarrow (Academia Sinica, Taipei)

Students: Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University); Devon Dear (Harvard
University); Rui Hua (Harvard University); Kyle Jaros (Harvard
University); Carlos Yu-kai Lin (University of Southern California); Daniel
Koss (Harvard University); Kyle Shernuk (Harvard University); Dylan Suher
(Harvard University); Miya Xie (Harvard University)

For more information, please contact Kyle Shernuk
(kshernuk at fas.harvard.edu) or Dylan Suher (dylansuher at fas.harvard.edu)