Feather Satins and Orangutan Felts: A Material History of English Woolens in Qing China For the EAS Speaker Series Spring 2025, Rachel Silberstein will introduce her book project, which focuses on the East India Company’s export of British woolens to Qing period China. By considering the EIC’s motives and strategies alongside analysis of Chinese textile […]
Graduate student Julia Wu will present on “Illicit Marriages in Mukden Before 1690” for the Spring 2025 EAS Seminar Series In collaboration with the Gender Seminar. The EAS Seminar is an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate […]
This is a Virtual Event via Zoom.Zoom Link: https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/94689909734 Join us for an engaging dual book workshop featuring scholars Anand Venkatkrishnan and Pierce Salguero as they share their works-in-progress on transformative biographical writing. This interactive session invites students to explore innovative approaches to biography through a trans-Asian feminist lens. Featured Speakers: Anand VenkatkrishnanAssistant Professor of […]
Graduate student Yihan Lulu Wang will present on “Negotiating Grief Work in a Chinese Role-Playing Science Fiction” for the Spring 2025 EAS Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate senior theses […]
For the EAS Speaker Series Spring 2025, Yueran Zhang will speak about the topic: Workers of the Socialist World: The Transnational Remaking of Chinese Workers’ Class Consciousness, circa 1980. This talk provides a transnational account of the crystallization of socialist workers’ class consciousness at a pivotal historical moment. Specifically, it reveals how, in China’s early […]