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Knowledge Production in Twentieth Century China and Beyond

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University will host the two-day workshop, "Knowledge Production in Twentieth Century China and Beyond."

When:
April 28, 2017 8:45am to April 29, 2017 4:15pm
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Participants
  • Cao Nanping, Fudan University
  • Chris Chang, Columbia University
  • John Chen, Columbia University
  • Rob Culp, Bard College
  • Benjamin Elman, Princeton University
  • Jin Guangyao, Fudan University
  • Eugenia Lean, Columbia University
  • Pi Guoli, Zhongyuan University
  • Sigrid Schmalzer, UMass Amherst
  • Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee
  • Zhang Li, School of Humanities, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Zhang Qing, Fudan University
  • Zhang Zhongmin, Fudan University
  • Dongxin Zou, Columbia University
 
FULL SCHEDULE:
 
Friday, April 28:
 
Opening comments (8:45-9:00)
 
Panel I: Changing Systems of Knowledge in the Late Qing (9:00-10:30)
Chaired by Eugenia Lean
Cao Nanping, Fudan University: “Reclassifying Knowledge: Interactions between Literati-elites and Book Market after the Reform of Civil Service Examinations in Late Qing Period.”
Zhang Zhongmin, Fudan University: “’The medium that ruins the country:’ Liang Qichao and Reading Culture in Late Qing and Republican China.”
 
Tea (10:30-10:45)
 
Panel II: New Media and New Forms of Knowledge (10:45-12:15)
Chaired by Rob Culp
Zhang Qing, Fudan University: “Professionalization of Historical Knowledge: From the Reform of the Civil Examination System to the Compilation of Textbooks.” 
Eugenia Lean, Columbia University: “Expertise and Knowledge Production in Chen Diexian’s “Common Knowledge for the Household” Column [1917-1927]”
 
Panel III: Republican Medical Regimes (1:30-3:00)
Chaired by Zhang Zhongmin
Pi Guoli, Zhongyuan University Taiwan: “Extraordinary Times: The Intervention of Chinese Medicine in the Discourse of War and National Plight.” 
John Chen, Columbia University: “From ‘Insulting the Religion’ to ‘Saving the Nation’: Modern Chinese Muslims’ Rediscovery and Politicization of Islamic Medicine.
 
Tea (3:00-3:30)
 
Panel IV: Engaging the Natural World (3:30-5:00)
Chaired by Sigrid Schmalzer
Rob Culp, Bard College: “Defining ‘Nature’ (ziran) in Late Qing and Republican China.” 
Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee: “Eden on the Frontiers: Cultivating Agricultural Knowledge on the Western Frontiers, 1920-1960.” 
 
Saturday, April 29:
 
Panel V: The Politicization and Administration of Knowledge (9:00-11:15)
Chaired by Zhang Qing
Jin Guangyao, Fudan University: “Political Stand and Historical Record: Analysis of Three Chronicles of Fudan University in the Cultural Revolution.” 
Zhang Li, School of Humanities, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (with Zhao Tao, CAS Natural Science History Institute), “The Office for Science of the Central Propaganda Department and Scientific Enterprise in Early People’s Republic of China 1951-1966.”
Chris Chang, Columbia University: “The People are Indignant: Appendices and the Class Nature of Evidence.”
 
PRC Posters Presentation at C.V. Starr East Asian Library (11:30-12:30)
“Ephemera Collection on Chinese Science, Technology, Law, and Society”
 
Panel VI: Knowledge Across Borders (1:30-3:00), Chaired by Jin Guangyao
Sigrid Schmalzer, UMass Amherst: “Layer upon Layer: Experience, Ecology, Engineering, Heritage, and (most of all) History in the Production of Knowledge on North China’s Terraces.”
Dongxin Zou, Columbia University: “Experimenting with Socialist Medicine and the Chinese Imagination of North Africa, 1960s-1970s.” 
 
Tea (3:00-3:15)
 
Closing Roundtable (3:15-4:15)
Chaired by Eugenia Lean and Rob Culp
Benjamin Elman, Princeton University
Zhang Qing, Fudan University
Cost: 
Free