Date: May 20
Time: Berlin 16:00 London 14:00 New York 10:00
Language: 中文 and English
Open room
Topics:
- Why were Confucian texts a key ingredient in political communication in China’s imperial courts?
- Why is historiography a necessary conduit for power struggles among political elites of the 17th century as well as of the 20th?
- Is it possible to make meaningful comparisons of China’s disciplinary regimes at different times of history?
Speakers:
Patricia THORNTON (University of Oxford)
Ying ZHANG (The Ohio State University)
Ling LI (University of Vienna)
Moderator:
Sida LIU ((University of Toronto)
Discussants:
Juan WANG (McGill University)
Grace MOU (University of London)
Literature under discussion:
Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence and State-making in Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2007), by Patricia THORNTON
Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China (University of Washington Press, 2016), by Ying ZHANG
The ‘Organisational Weapon’ of the Chinese Communist Party – China’s disciplinary regime from Mao to Xi Jinping in Law and the Party in China (Cambridge University Press, 2021), by Ling LI