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A World (Almost) without Money: Demonetization and Everyday Life in Collective-Era Rural China

Mergenthaler Hall 266

Jacob Eyferth Associate Professor Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago During the collective era (1956–80), China’s farmers earned an average annual cash income from collective sources of ¥15, equivalent to US $9 in terms of purchasing power. Total income was higher, since members of collectives received much of their […]

Michael Sharpe

The Politics of Racism and Antiracism in Japan – Michael Sharpe (York College – CUNY)

Mergenthaler Hall 266

Scholarship on racial politics in Japan has tended to take a dichotomous view of Japan as either a culturally homogenous, racially exceptional society where racism does not exist or a perniciously racist one. This talk examines how racism and antiracism have interactively shaped modern Japan’s political development, focusing on national and international coalitions, social movements, […]