Past Events
Can we apply a standard periodization scheme across East Asia? Historians of China, Japan, and Korea examine economic and cultural networks, environmental patterns, intellectual trends, state structures and practices, and contemporary debates on "the nation".
Directors Duan Jinchuan and Jiang Yue's 2005 documentary "The Hurricane" provides personal accounts of the communist Land Reform (1946-1953).
In The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, author James Mann examines the evolution of American policy toward China and asks, "What are our ideas and hidden assumptions about China?"
University of Michigan's Mary Gallagher focuses on labor and law.
David M. Finkelstein, Director of the China Studies Center & Project Asia at the CNA Corporation.
Ninety made of animal hide are presented thematically through famous Chinese legends and characters.
William Callahan will speak as part of Sigur Center's lecture series on Sub-national Asia.
Professor Mark Selden speaks on China's social inequalities in the wake of revolution and reform.
A talk by Yiching Wu, Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and History.
This exhibition of ceramics, metalworks, sculpture, and painting demonstrates that a depth of information can be revealed through the careful observation and study of the form of an object.