Fall 2017 Newsletter ork e are excited about this move e are ang Junyi Postdoctoral Fellow, Fellow, ang Junyi Postdoctoral eiser Hall, which we share with the eiser Hall, which we share ecture Series (TLS) will now be held uesday Lecture rchitecture and Urban Planning. aubman School of Architecture uesdays. The T uesdays. e hope this change is not too troublesome to the community. to the community. e hope this change is not too troublesome onya Ozbey, the 2015-2016 T the 2015-2016 Sonya Ozbey, his year we welcome a new crop of postdoctoral fellows: of postdoctoral This year we welcome a new crop e are so pleased to have Sonya stay on at Michigan as an e are e also have several visiting scholars from China, hosted by from visiting scholars e also have several has accepted a joint tenure track offer from the Department of offer from track has accepted a joint tenure and the Department of Philosophy. Asian Languages and Culture W It may even allow our faculty to stay for the whole lecture, as for the whole lecture, It may even allow our faculty to stay 1 PM class. we also often need to dash out for a Lei Duan, and Anne Rebull. Javed, Jeffrey Elizabeth Berger, W and Sustainability, Ming Xu in the School for Environment David Rolston in ALC, and myself. San Duanmu in Linguistics, will stay fellow, LRCCS postdoctoral Will Thomson, a 2016-2017 Department teaching in the Anthropology on for another year, and the T May U-M 2017 Rogel China Trip: From left, Xinjiang Professor Rogel, landscape; Kenneth Richard Emeritus Lieberthal and LSA Dean Andrew Martin in Xinjiang, China; Yurts in Xinjiang. Photos courtesy of Tom Baird. e start off this new academic year with many changes. First and and First academic year with many changes. e start off this new Social W the School of the LRCCS has moved from foremost, Building to the 4th Floor of W he move has also compelled us to shift the time (and title) of our Noon The move has also compelled us to shift e will also be able to host research seminars and workshops on the 4th Floor. on the 4th Floor. and workshops seminars e will also be able to host research ecture Series (NLS) on T Lecture as it allows us to offer space to our postdoctoral fellows and distinguished visitors. fellows and distinguished visitors. as it allows us to offer space to our postdoctoral W will be event space later in the fall, there When the building is completely finished Please come and visit us to see our new digs! floor. on the 10th sian centers at the International Institute. W at the International Institute. other Asian centers W from 11:30 to 12:30 instead of 12 PM to 1 PM in order to accommodate classes in order to 12:30 instead of 12 PM to 1 PM 11:30 from that begin at 1 PM. W May U-M 2017 Rogel China Trip: Mary Gallagher and Richard Rogel Welcome! LRCCS Director LRCCS Director Mary Gallagher 3 2

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 — May 2017 U-M Rogel China Trip: Richard Rogel, Susan Rogel and LSA Dean Andrew Martin riding camels in Xinjiang, China. Photos courtesy of Tom Baird.

assistant professor. We would also like to acknowledge the generous gift to Faculty & Staff News 8 the College from Don and Anne Munro, which made this position possible. Please take a look at this newsletter for additional information on our expanding Chinese Studies community! This May I was fortunate to be included in a trip to China with Rich and Student & Alumni News 15 Susan Rogel, Dean Andrew Martin, Ken and Jane Lieberthal and other U-M stakeholders with strong interest in Chinese Studies. As the photos in this newsletter indicate, we traveled to destinations associated with the history of the Silk Road, including Kashgar and Urumqi in Xinjiang and Dunhuang, Events 22 Gansu Province. (Yes, the Dean and our donors rode camels.) The trip ended in Shanghai with the Pan-Asia Reunion, which brought together over 400 people, including alums, faculty, and current U-M students. The reunion highlighted some of our faculty expertise on China. Bright Outreach 25 Sheng spoke about his latest opera, based on Dream of the Red Chamber. Ken Lieberthal and I spoke on Sino-US relations to a very attentive audience. Thank you to everyone for participating and making this such a great event. Resources 27

All the best for the new academic year,

Mary Gallagher Director Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Inside nn Munro Ann Munro ndrew D. Martin, the dean Andrew He went on to say that he believes that the faculty position will - and collabora scholarship increase tion on Chinese philosophy with the globe. across partners of the College of LSA expressed “Chinese philosophy has opened new challenges “Chinese philosophy Professor Emeritus Donald J. Munro Munro and Ann P. anguages and Cultures. He retired from the from He retired of Asian Languages and Cultures. of ACLS, is the recipient Munro in 1996. University National Academy of Foundation, Guggenheim, Ford Council fellow- Science Research and Social Sciences, been active in and has long ships during his career, intellectual and cultural establishing and maintaining exchange with China. widely found in the content of not and perspectives “ Munro. says philosophy courses,” traditional and lectured has accompanied me when I have taught in this country and in Asia, and she is mindful of the in China to enthusiasm of students and educators who understand counterparts with their foreign interact The ideal candidate for this new fund’s both traditions. of the original support combines sinology—knowledge texts and spoken competency—with philosophy.” will be a terrific gift Munro’s his support: “Professor a subject with that allows us to teach new resource and Asian important implications for both Philosophy Languages and Cultures.” e

generous new gift from University of of University from new gift generous Emeritus Donald J. Michigan Professor has facilitated Munro and Ann P. Munro position a tenure-track the establishment of at Michigan. The in Chinese philosophy

“The Department of Philosophy is pleased to be able he new professorship ensures that Chinese that Chinese ensures The new professorship “Over his long career at the University of Michigan, at the University “Over his long career an expert in classical Chinese philosophy Munro, A Gift by Donald and Ann Munro Helps Establish Establish Helps Munro Ann and Donald by Gift Philosophy in Chinese Professorship Tenure-Track philosophical schools, which are underrepresented underrepresented which are philosophical schools, and North in departments of philosophy in Europe place in teaching and America, will have a prominent of Michigan in perpetuity. at the University scholarship in of scholarship its distinguished tradition to restore of generosity the great Chinese philosophy through says and Ann Munro,” Emeritus Don Munro Professor the chair of the Department of Elizabeth Anderson, made U-M Munro Professor “For decades, Philosophy. a major center for the study of Chinese philosophy and students who went on to distinction numerous trained in this field. As the discipline of philosophy evolves in the global academic scene, inclusion of the Chinese important. W is increasingly philosophical tradition tudies and the chair of the Department of Tibetan Studies and the chair of the Department that, “I am delighted Asian Languages and Cultures. will continue.” gift, his legacy this generous through position, which is housed jointly in the Department of position, which is housed and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Science, and the of Literature, Philosophy in the College philosophy an important will make Chinese Arts, of the two departments. element of the programs study of for the set the paradigm Donald Munro bringing Chinese philosophy in the American academy, into philosophical traditions the Chinese and European their richness without sacrificing fruitful conversation says Donald Lopez, the Arthur E. or their complexity,” of Buddhist and Professor Link Distinguished University to join the Department of Asian Languages proud are in this vital endeavor.” and Cultures of and neo-Confucian thought, served as a professor Chinese philosophy and as the chair of the Department allows us to teach a subject with important implications to teach a subject with important implications us allows — Dean Andrew D. Martin. — Dean Andrew for both Philosophy and Asian Languages and Cultures.” Languages and Cultures.” for both Philosophy and Asian “Professor Munro’s gift will be a terrific new resource that that resource gift will be a terrific new Munro’s “Professor 5 4

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 — The 2017 Pan-Asia Alumni Reunion

We are delighted to report he 2017 Pan-Asia Alumni Reunion took place in that Dr. Sonya Ozbey, former TShanghai this past May, with talks featuring LRCCS LRCCS postdoctoral fellow in faculty and alumni alike. Kenneth Lieberthal, Professor Chinese philosophy, has accepted Emeritus of Political Science, spoke on the current state this new faculty position that has of the Chinese government’s relationship with the US. been generously supported by the Mary Gallagher, LRCCS Director and Professor of gift from Don and Ann Munro. Political Science, talked about the Chinese education Dr. Ozbey is a scholar of classical system. Les Ross (LRCCS PhD ‘80) gave a lecture on the Chinese philosophy with a world of business in China. And Bright Sheng, Leonard Assistant Professor Sonya Ozbey secondary research specialization Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Compo- in early modern European sition, presented some scenes from his opera Dream of philosophy. Thematically, her research focuses on the Red Chamber. The event was also attended by conceptions of human and animal identity, as well as LRCCS administrator Leea Allerding and social media intersections of categories of animality, gender, and coordinator Eric Couillard, as well as many LRCCS alum ethnicity, in different philosophical texts. She is and friends.

particularly interested in examining the grammar of May 2017 U-M Pan Asia Reunion, Shanghai: Clockwise from left, LRCCS Director Mary different types of reasoning that constitutes humans as Gallagher, CJS Director Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Nam Center Program Coordinator Do-Hee exceptional, if not superior, and how that then shapes Morsman, LSA Dean Andrew Martin, and CJS Program Coordinator Yuri Fukazawa. conceptualizations of differences within human communities. She is currently housed in the Depart- ment of Asian Languages and Cultures and will be teaching courses on Chinese philosophy in Fall 2017.

Eric Couillard, LRCCS social media coordinator, recently interviewed Professor Emeritus Munro for the LRCCS blog. That interview can be accessed by this link: http:// www.chinese-studies-blog.org/blog/don-munro.

The State of Michigan’s Official Name in Chinese

The State of Michigan, on an executive order from Gov. Rick Snyder, officially announced our state’s name in Chinese is 密西根. This announcement will help to standardize how our state is described in Chinese—previously there were at least three possible ways to write it. Before, U-M used the Chinese character 歇 in place of 西. 密西Photo courtesy of Melody Zhang (Ross Alum, ‘08) 根 简讯

Taubman College PhD student Jieqiong Wang conducting fieldwork in Nantou Urban Village on House 17 with Robert Adams, Mary-Ann Ray, and Robert Mangurian for the upcoming 2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen. al 2017 University of Michigan L ieberthal- R ogel Center for Chinese S tudies Fall

Faculty & Staff News 6 — 7 Staff News introduced the audience to the seminal contribution of the University of Michigan, especially the LRCCS, to LRCCS social media coordinator Eric Couillard took a China studies and to America’s understanding of China. trip to Beijing during the summer of 2017 to meet with She discussed the dual scholarly and policy roles played former LRCCS artist-in-residence Wang Qingsong and by distinguished U-M faculty, including Michel Oksenberg future artist-in-residence He Yunchang, to discuss their and Kenneth Lieberthal. In addition, a large number of upcoming exhibition to be held at U-M. (Pictured from the top China experts in the United States today are U-M left: Wang Qingsong, Eric Couillard, and He Yunchang.) alumni, she noted, forming an expansive scholarly lineage. In her talk she cited Michel Oksenberg, who was Professor of Political Science at the U-M and the leading China expert on the National Security Council under Jimmy Carter’s presidency. In his biography, Jimmy Carter wrote, “Mike Oksenberg changed my life—and changed the life of this country and to some degree changed the life of every citizen of China.” This was because Prof. Oksenberg spearheaded the normal- ization of relations between the United States and China, building an extensive network of goodwill and influence as a top diplomat and scholar. He also pioneered Faculty Associate News the study of China in America. In his memo to National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1977, Oksenberg Robert Adams, Associate Professor of Architecture in underscored the importance of cultivating future the U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban generations of China experts. He wrote, “How do we Planning, in collaboration with Mary-Ann Ray and cultivate talent so that 15–20 years from now, we will Robert Mangurian and their joint Beijing architecture have a core of top-flight Chinese analysts in the age studio enterprise B.A.S.E. Beijing, were selected to bracket of 40–55. Everyone agrees with me that unless participate in the 2017 Shenzhen Biennale (http://en. something is done, such a group will not exist.” Prof. szhkbiennale.org/). For the event, they’ll be renovating Oksenberg realized this vision by “training more an old building in Nantou, an urban village in Shen- students in contemporary Chinese studies during the zhen, which will become an exhibition and performance last 25 years” than any other scholar, forming a lineage space. The renovations are scheduled to be completed that is known today as “the Michigan mafia.” Associate by December 15, 2017. Professor Ang herself was trained by Oksenberg’s students at Stanford, making her a grand-student of this lineage. Yuen Yuen Ang has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the U-M Department of Political Science. Acclaimed composer Bright Sheng, Leonard Bernstein We congratulate Professor Ang on her promotion! Distinguished University Professor of Composition, has Her book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell had his most recent album called Northern Lights / University Press, Cornell Studies in Political Economy, Melodies of a Flute / 4 Movements for Piano Trio (Dan 2016), examines all three themes and lays the founda- Zhu, J. Schwarz, Trey Lee, Bright Sheng) released in July tion for my research agenda. It won the 2017 Peter 2017. He has been fascinated by folk music for his entire Katzenstein Book Prize for “outstanding first book in career and Northern Lights is his first work to use international relations, comparative politics, or political Scandinavian folk music, exploring its kinship with economy.” It has been reviewed at the World Bank, American sources such as Appalachian and Bluegrass Straits Times, Foreign Affairs, Harvard’s Building State music. Inspired by ancient Chinese poetry, Melodies of Capability Blog, and other outlets.

In May 2017, Associate Professor Yuen Yuen Ang Bright Sheng spoke at the Corporate Associates’ Breakfast ​at​ the Institute of Policy Studies​, a think-tank​ in Singapore. The event was attended by the top corporate leaders in Singapore, including ​executives from Temasek International, Shell Eastern Petroleum, KPMG, Citigroup, ​etc. The subject of her talk was “The Role of Relations in US-China Relations.” At this event, she

C C-funded C) Program, the C) Program, C program, how it C program, aubman College of e congratulate Professor Deng Professor e congratulate , a Law—China and the World volume co-edited by LRCCS Faculty Associate and Michigan Nicholas Law School Professor and Robin Huang Hui Howson of of the Chinese University The Law Faculty. Hong Kong publication, and the December it conference Hong Kong 2014 both the out of, were grew ax Credit (LIHT ax Credit has been promoted to Lan Deng has been promoted Urban and of Associate Professor in Regional Planning with tenure the U-M T and Urban Planning. Architecture W Professor on her promotion! and teaching research Deng’s in the areas fall broadly interests - City: Percep Senses of the appeared 2017 In March the book manuscript at the École des Hautes Études Hautes École des at the manuscript the book in Paris. Sociales en Sciences Song China, 1127–1279 and Southern tions of Hangzhou he Chinese University Press, 2017), 2017), Press, University The Chinese (Hong Kong: Lin, Joseph Lam, Shuen-fu by LRCCS associates co-edited de Pee Professor Powers. and Martin Pee, Christian de Lam and with Professor the introduction co-wrote Capital: The City entitled “Nature’s contributed a chapter Scenery of the Capital in The Splendid as Garden of the A study of the genre (Ducheng jisheng, 1235).” (biji) and Shifting Boundaries ofnotebook (“Notebooks will appear laterKnowledge in Eleventh-Century China”) . this year in The Medieval Globe of housing, real estate, and local public finance. She is estate, and local public of housing, real evaluating the in examining and particularly interested towards types of interventions directed different hese interven- estate development. T housing and real as programs tions include formal government housing As an initiatives. community-based well as grassroots affordable housing policies and expert on affordable extensively the Deng has studied housing finance, Prof. Low-income Housing T in the program housing production affordable largest She has published work that examines United States. the economic efficiency of the LIHT with the housing choice voucher program, compares and what neighborhood impacts the LIHT Her housing developments have generated. affordable examines the year-15 challenges LIHT research current Deng has also expanded her research face. Prof. projects to examine housing market dynamics and housing policy issues in China. Mid-August saw the publication by Cambridge University and Securities of Corporate of Enforcement Press rchive The Archive eb Archive. , Associate de Pee Christian of History in the U-M Professor was a Department of History, Visiting Scholar at Department III of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, September 2016 Germany from As a member May 2017. through on “The Art of the working group ichard and Lillian Cassel, Richard Par Associate Ives Faculty Fellow, of History in the U-M Professor has been Department of History, a U-M Institute for the awarded Humanities fellowship during He will be spending the 2017-18. year working on his research in China: “Sovereignty project estern musical ideas to create luminous, luminous, ideas to create estern musical is a newly launched initiative developed by music is a newly launched Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, at Brown, librarians Princeton, and Yale Harvard, Duke, Johns Hopkins, of Chicago and Universities and the Universities, websites preserve aims to The project Pennsylvania. in order composers contemporary belonging to notable availability of these important, the continuing to assure documents for use by and potentially ephemeral, and scholars. researchers captures deep and sensuous moods of love moods and sensuous deep captures a Flute spicy to the refers Hot Pepper while and longing, Bright Sheng combines Sichuan province. cuisine of W Chinese and new giving scores, and rhythmic deeply expressive language. as a universal the idea of music meaning to selected his has Plus IvyLibraries ally, Addition for inclusion in website, http://www.brightsheng.com/, W Composers its Contemporary of Judgment” he wrote two of the three chapters of his chapters two of the three of Judgment” he wrote in the City: Urban book manuscript, Losing the Way and Intellectual Crisis in Middle- Space, Subjectivity, CE. The completed chapters China, 800–1100 Period that in the late tenth and early eleventh demonstrate became an acceptable centuries the urban streetscape officials of the composition, as literati topic for literary the movement of Northern Song sought to understand their jurisdictions, and money through people, goods, and as they attempted to determine their individual to commodities and urban crowds. identity in relation about gave for lectures de Pee Professor In June 2017, his project explores how the explores of a Concept.” This project The Careers political into Chinese entered concept of sovereignty and demon- in the late seventeenth century discourse to serve how it was constantly renegotiated strates projects nation-building and state-building different history. in the longue durée of modern Chinese 9 University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 8 — her Ph.D., Dr. Lin was a social worker at Covenant House in New York City, and a member of the Covenant House Faith Community. At Michigan, Dr. Lin teaches courses on public policy implementation, gender and politics, qualitative research methods, and immigration.

Donald Lopez Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, and Depart- ment Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, went to Tsinghua From left, Nicholas Howson (Michigan Law School), Guo Li (Peking University School of Law), Adam Pritchard (Michigan Law School), Michael S. Barr University in May for the (Michigan Law School and incoming Dean of the U-M Gerald R. Ford School inaugural conference of the of Public Policy), and Hwa-Jin Kim (Seoul National University School of Law). newly established Tsinghua- Photo courtesy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development. Michigan Society of Fellows, where he gave a paper on grateful beneficiaries of direct financial support from the history of Chinese Studies at the University of LRCCS. The aim of the conference and the resulting Michigan. During the past academic year he served as published volume was to gather in one place the PI for an ongoing project sponsored by the new world’s top academic specialists, legal practitioners and Humanities Collaboratory established by the Provost. judicial/regulatory personnel expert in the public and The project, called “Hyecho’s Journey,” is a study of private enforcement of the national and increasingly travels of the Korean monk Hyecho (C. Huichao). transnational legal and regulatory systems that govern Around 720, he embarked on a pilgrimage that took the global economy and capital markets, and to engage him from China, to India, to Persia, and back to China in in an explicitly comparative discourse centered on a a period of only three years. The members of the team rapidly developing China, on one hand, and other include faculty members Kevin Carr (History of Art) and developed and developing jurisdictions, on the other. Carla Sinopoli (Anthropology), Asia Library librarian Presentations at the conference and chapters in the Keiko Yokata-Carter, and graduate students Rebecca book come from an unprecedented group of the Bloom (ALC), Chun Wa Chan (History of Art), and Ha leading experts in the U.S. and Canada, England, Italy, Nul Jun (ALC). The team has produced a book entitled France and Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Australia, as Hyecho’s Journey: The World of Buddhism (University well as the PRC, the Hong Kong SAR, and Taiwan, led of Chicago Press) and has contributed an exhibit about off by the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff, U.S. District Judge on the Hyecho to the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washing- Court for the Southern District of New York, one of the ton as part of the three-year exhibition “Encountering most impassioned and articulate analyst of these the Buddha” opening in October. In conjunction with problems, particularly after the 2008-09 Global the exhibit, they have worked with the Multidisciplinary Financial Crisis. The volume is particularly timely given Design Program of the College of Engineering to create China’s ongoing effort to complete the wholesale an iPhone app about Hyecho’s travels. amendment of its 2006 Securities Law, which amend- ment Professor Howson is advising the Chinese Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor National People’s Congress on as part of an Asian of Anthropology and Michigan Development Bank-assembled expert group. Society of Fellows, has become a faculty associate of the U-M Ann Lin, Associate Professor of China Center. She is a cultural Public Policy at the U-M Ford and medical anthropologist with School of Public Policy, has a geographical focus on China. become a faculty associate of the Her work in general explores how Lieberthal-Rogel Center for our bodily existence—its health, Chinese Studies. She received her illness, capacities, and disabilities—is shaped by Ph.D. in political science from the technical, moral, and politico-economic forces, and University of Chicago in 1994 how social transformation impacts inequality and and was the 1992-93 Robert W. vulnerability. Hartley Fellow in Governmental Studies at The Brook- Professor Ma’s current book project, “Insanity, ings Institution in Washington, D.C. Prior to receiving Intimacy, and Institution: Governance and Care Under e wish eadership eaching Leadership cientific Publishing, 2017), orld Scientific Publishing, 2017), orld Economy for which she Assistant Jing Cai, Former at of Economics Professor of Michigan, the University as of January left the university a faculty position to accept 2017 in the College of Agriculture of Resources and Natural of Maryland, the University W College Park. Her research focused on economic development in focused on economic development Her research on the Lim served an independent director Professor Linda Lim in Shanghai with LRCCS alumni in 2013: L-R: Ben Simar (MA/MBA 2004), MikeLittle (MA/MBA 1994), Tom Stanley (BA ALC 1988; MBA 1993), and Pat Cranley (MA/MBA 1988). Transitions Professor Cai all the best in her new position. Cai all the Professor at the of Strategy as Professor Linda Lim has retired Emerita, is now Professor Ross School of Business and Michigan faculty for 32 years after serving on the College.At LRCCS she warthmore following a stint at S and terms on the executive committee, served several for MBA/MA especially theses, supervised many Masters Lim taught the Professor At Ross, students. dual degree The W course MBA core T the Victor L. Bernard received and an MBA elective, Business in Asia, in 2014, Award Asia serving as Faculty Advisor of the student-run 25 years. for its first Business Conference of and Southeast Asia, including the roles Singapore and investment, trade government industrial policy, and Overseas women factory workers, labor markets, published A selection of her previously Chinese business. as Business Government and Labor in appears papers and South- the Economic Development of Singapore W east Asia (Singapore: the Singapore and she guest-edited and contributed to Special Issue on 60, no. 3 (2015) Economic Review Vol. Economic of Singapore’s Retrospective a Fifty Year Development. of two U.S. public companies with tech manufac- board in China, including the sale of the turing operations She teaches in executive second to a Chinese company. publishes for Chinese companies, education programs and is frequently op-eds on the US and Asian economies, quoted in the media—all of which she expects to She is also co-editing and continue in retirement. Singapore’s contributing to a forthcoming book tracing the center from trading evolution as a regional okyo, where he will be conduct- okyo, where Sonya Ozbey, former LRCCS scholar during postdoctoral has accepted the 2015-16, position of Assistant Professor jointly of Chinese Philosophy, appointed in Department of Asian and in Languages and Cultures the Department of Philosophy, of Michigan. at the University aseda University in T aseda University ang Junyi Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of ang Junyi Post-Doctoral eform in Contemporary in Contemporary eform Legal R Health the Mental and care in the involvement families’ examines China,” in mental illnesses severe with of persons management of fieldwork (2008-2014) on 32 months China. It draws settings, institutional and community in various medial and and archival with policymakers, interviews workings of maps the The book manuscript analyses. a mode of governance that “biopolitical paternalism,” population man- state’s legitimizes the post-socialist intervention, and that displac- agement as paternalistic onto the patients’ es the paternalistic responsibilities ongoing— second—and already Ma’s Professor families. of community mental emergence the traces project - a focus on ideologies of “commu health in China, with A third of knowledge translation. nity” and processes stage, examines preliminary a more which is at project, bodily senses and political the entanglement of movement. disability rights sensitization in China’s of Asian Cinema, U-M Nornes, Professor Markus Asian Arts and Cultures, Departments of Screen Stamps School and the Penny Languages and Cultures, year at of Art and Design, is on sabbatical this academic W sociologist Seio with China studies ing joint research - interconnec looking at the regional Nakajima. They are tions in East Asia, particularly between Japan and China. he has also become a faculty associate of this center. She has also become a faculty associate of this center. Univer- DePaul her PhD from Ozbey received Professor and was the Perkins, with Frank she studied where sity, T at Michigan during Asian Languages and Cultures Classical Chinese are areas Her research 2016-17. Philosophy, European Early Modern Philosophy, and Animality Studies. Philosophy, Comparative She has also accepted the position of faculty associate her and we congratulate of the U-M China Center, on her appointment.

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 — 11 10 medieval period through (prospectively) the next Maura Elizabeth Cunningham century, when China is expected to be the major has become a Center Associate external actor in Southeast Asia’s development. of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center She remains in Ann Arbor and may be reached at for Chinese Studies. She is a [email protected]. writer and historian of modern China. She is a graduate of Saint Center Associate News Joseph’s University (BA, 2004), This past year, Brian Bruya, Associate Professor of Yale University (MA, 2006), the Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University, released work Hopkins-Nanjing Center for in several lines of ongoing inquiry. In the field of Chinese and American Studies (graduate certificate, cognitive science, he published “Mechanisms of Mind- 2008), and UC Irvine (PhD, 2014), as well as Body Interaction and Optimal Performance” with Chinese-language programs in Beijing and Hangzhou. collaborator Yi-Yuan Tang. It is the first in a planned Dr. Cunningham’s dissertation was a social and cultural series of empirical critiques of current attention theory history of child welfare in 20th-century Shanghai; she and the construction of a new empirically-informed is currently working on the manuscript for a book theory that includes effortless attention, inspired by about children’s cartoonist Zhang Leping. concepts in Chinese philosophy. In social science, he Her passion is to share in-depth research with presented a paper in Beijing on work with collaborator non-academic audiences. She was the editor-in-chief Monika Ardelt from our study testing theories of of China Beat, a blog based at UC Irvine, between 2009 fostering wisdom in the classroom. Two related articles and 2012, and associate editor of ChinaFile during a are currently under review. On his home campus, he fellowship at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China presented the paper, “Ethnocentrism, Multiculturalism, Relations in 2011-12. After receiving her PhD, and Philosophy.” It will be published this fall as the third Dr. Cunningham joined the National Committee on in his trilogy of critiques of academic philosophy in U.S.-China Relations in New York to co-direct its America, and he will present it, in part, in a larger Public Intellectuals Program; in August 2016, she discussion on the main program of the next Eastern moved to Ann Arbor to become the Association for Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Associa- Asian Studies’s first Digital Media Manager. As a writer, tion. The Confucius Institute at Wayne State University her work has appeared at the Wall Street Journal, TIME, invited him to give a talk on a recent trip to the old the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publica- stomping grounds of Confucius, comparing it to a trip tions. She is the co-author (with Jeff Wasserstrom) of he took twenty years ago. That recent trip was a the third edition of China in the 21st Century: What scouting trip and he was soon to head out into the Everyone Needs to Know, which will be published by countryside and explore what were once capital cities in Oxford University Press in spring 2018. In addition to Confucius’ time. This year he also signed a contract with reading and writing, she enjoys HGTV binges, yoga, and Princeton University Press to publish his translations of travel. Follow her on Twitter @mauracunningham. C. C. Tsai’s Illustrated Library of Chinese Classics, some of which will be revisions of previously published editions. Xiaolin Duan, Assistant Professor of History and Geography at Elon University, has become an LRCCS Center Associate. Her research specialization focuses on socio-cultural history in medieval and early modern China, particu- larly urban history, popular religion, and visual/material culture. She is currently working on two research projects: one is a book manuscript titled “Leisure and Nature: Sightseeing around Hangzhou’s West Lake in Medieval China.” It explores how sightseeing activities influenced the way people interacted with and conceptualized the natural environment. The other project explores the connections between the global desire for silk and state-society relationships by tracing the production and trade of silk textiles in early modern China and Mexico. Center Associate Brian Bruya at Hou Hai in Beijing, June 2017. ayne State ork and the exas, on “Reconsid- exas, he Precariat and China ork: The Precariat Center Associate Tim Wixted participated in a three-day held at Rice University conference in Houston, T A Critical ering the Sinosphere: Examination of the Use of Chinese by East Asian Literary by His article, “Kanshi Cultures.” Mori Ogai: Hokuyu nichijo and - Swider, Associate Profes Sarah sor of Sociology at W will be on leave in the University, of the Sociology Department of Copenhagen University She starting September 2017. will also serve as the Chair of the Labor and Labor Movement Section of the American Socio- ssistant , Assistant Mokros Emily at the of History Professor has of Kentucky, University LRCCS Center become an Mokros Associate. Professor in her doctorate completed - Johns Hopkins Univer history at Her disserta- sity in August 2016. tion is titled: “Communication, Her book, Building China: Informal W by Japonica 1),” was published Go Hokuyu nichijo (Part And his book, pp. 53-120. Humboldtiana 18 (2016), Haow- Criticism by Yuan Literary on Poetry: Poems Quirin in the series, is being reprinted en (1190-1257), titles by Henri which features Pinyin Updated Editions, and others. Stephen Owen, A.C. Graham, Maspero, ssociation during 2017-18. logical Association during 2017-18. has won several 2015) (Cornell Press, New Precariat, Section The American Sociological Association, awards: 2016; Award, on Development, Winner of Faculty Book Labor and and the American Sociological Association, Mention for Labor Movements Section, Honorable Her most 2016. Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, Lianqing, Peng, the following: publications are recent inequality: and regional “Migration Swider. and Sarah inequal- economic of China’s changing characteristics 1-25. and Economics (2017): Geography Eurasian ity.” W Informal and Precarious ) (非正式和不稳定的工作:不稳定型无产者和中国 (2017), China, 14, 19-41 Rural Swider (苏之慧), Sarah, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22136746-01401002 uthority in the Qing Gazette.” and Authority in the Qing Empire, o his est China School of Medi- Yi Li has become an LRCCS Center Associate. He has been a of Biostatistics at the Professor of Michigan since University he became In 2015 2011. of Global Public Co-Director T Health Global Statcore. knowledge, this is the first initiative in the nation that Michael D. Fetters, M.D., M.D., D. Fetters, Michael become an , has M.A. M.P.H., is a Associate. He LRCCS Center at of family medicine professor of Michigan where the University the Japanese Family he directs (JFHP) that Health Program and culturally strives to provide for care linguistically competent est China Hospital to establish jointing eptember 2016 to January 2017, he served as to January 2017, September 2016 From esearch in Family Medicine Education and Research raining, recognizes and accommodates the growing need of and accommodates the growing recognizes he transitioned biostatistics in global health. In 2016 of Kidney Epidemiol- his position as the Director from of Global Public ogy and Cost Center to the Director Health China Relations in the U-M School of Public positions he is working Health. In both of his Director to and China universities closely with U-M personnel efforts such as big data develop various collaboration and joint academic joint research platforms, research is providing Program The Global Statcore seminars. - international statistical support for his China collabora of data, research including standardization tive partners models building, and training. statistical methodology, he is of the China Relations program As Director working closely with the W cine and W and mentoring opportunities for postgraduates training both universities. from ciences at U-M Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Social S Health Sciences University Peking Global Health Partner on Mixed course he taught a graduate where Center, on Design, and conducted research Methods Research cancer decision making. the Japanese population currently residing in Ann Arbor residing currently the Japanese population Fluent in Japanese, area. Metropolitan and the Detroit in the introduction, he has also been instrumental skills and concepts, and teaching of, the for, preparation of family medicine for mission behind the specialty to the awarded Japan with a grant in medical residents of Family Medicine titled the U-M and the Department Residency of Michigan Advanced Shizuoka-University T - (SMARTER FM). An international expert in the method has Fetters Professor ology of Mixed Methods Research, domestically taught multiple mixed methods workshops and Japan.and internationally in Canada, Denmark,

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 — 13 12 Chuanwu Xi has been promoted Lei Duan (PhD, Syracuse): to Professor of Environmental A historian, Dr. Duan researches Health Sciences, with tenure, and gun ownership among Chinese Professor of Global Public Health, citizens during and after the without tenure, in the U-M collapse of the Qing Dynasty. School of Public Health. We Guns are outlawed today but he congratulate Professor Xi on his has found a surprising amount promotion! Dr. Xi is a molecular of Chinese people owned guns microbiologist and microbial during the Republican China ecologist. His research focuses on biofilms, water period after the fall of the Qing, and these guns had quality and treatment and human health in three major a profound impact on Chinese society and national inter-related areas: (A) molecular mechanisms of politics. To conduct his research he visits archives in biofilm development; (B) characterization of biofilms China and archives of the various gun manufacturers and microbial community in industrial and clinical whose guns were owned in China. He will develop some settings and its impact on human health; and (C) articles out of his dissertation and begin work on a development of novel approaches for biofilm control. book manuscript. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Michi- gan in 2005, he spent four years at the University of Jeffrey Javed (PhD, Harvard): Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received his PhD Jeffrey is a political scientist with from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in 2000. a background in sociology, and his research focuses on state LRCCS Postdoctoral Scholars violence and historical memory. 2017-2019 He is particularly interested in how states foment violence and Elizabeth Berger (PhD, UNC): why does the intensity and An archaeologist, Dr. Berger targets of state violence vary, studies human remains (skeletons) and why people that live in post-Communist states still from ancient China to understand have nostalgia for the Communist era. Dr. Javed wants how people adapted to climate to begin work on several book manuscripts: his own change events in the past. on state violence and one he will co-author about During her fellowship she plans Communist Nostalgia. He is also prepared and looking to organize a multi-disciplinary forward to teaching some Political Science courses. symposium to host experts in discussing ancient climate change and the human Anne Rebull (PhD, Chicago): response. She also plans to write and submit several During the fellowship Dr. Rebull articles. She will also return to an archaeological is committed to a program of research site in China where she serves as Co-Director research and teaching that will of a field school that is administered jointly by UCLA focus on the intersection of and the Shaanxi government, and she would invite Performance Studies and Chinese Michigan students to come participate in the field literature and culture to demon- work and research being done at the site. strate the complexity of trans- cultural connections. She is interested in indigenous theater, and has focused her dissertation on how political policies and reforms shaped and were reflected in changes in Chinese theater and performance during the 20th century. She will be working on her book manuscript, teaching, giving lectures and organizing symposia and/or workshops that will be collaborative among the LRCCS community. Zhao Haoran: A PhD candidate Zhao Haoran: at North China Electric Power Zhao will also be Ms. University, working with Ming Xu. Her work will be focused on electric she will be researching power, that affect the main factors in power load and the trends electric power usage and loads, Joining us from Zhang Yihong: Joining us from Languages the School of Foreign at Shaanxi Normal University, Zhang will also be working Dr. with David Rolston examining and impact the translation of Jin Ping Mei ( 金瓶梅 ), in the English-speaking world. As an influential and important PhD candi - A PhD Xuechun: Yang of Ecology at the Institute date at Shandong and Biodiversity also be will Yang Ms. University, Ming Xu. Her work working with on the nexus on will focus and the water-energy-carbon that mechanisms regulatory that nexus, attempt to regulate o do this she will incorporate o do this she will incorporate with which she hope to contribute work towards with which she hope to contribute work towards model for developing an intelligent forecasting electric power load. T behavior and power usage. on consumers’ research Chinese classic Jin Ping Mei is an excellent subject Chinese classic Jin Ping Mei is an excellent He of classic literature. of the study of translation in Jin result and work will hopes that his research the English- in Ping Mei gaining wider recognition speaking world. especially in urban areas. She will use cities in Eastern especially in urban areas. She hopes to as case studies. China and Michigan urban CO2 for reducing recommendations produce nexus. to the water-energy related emissions that are oy. od Roy. singhua singhua echnology, Professor Sun will Professor echnology, Sun Zhongwei: An Associate of Sociology at East Professor of Science and China University T be working with Mary Gallagher. focuses on rural- His research and the workers, urban migrant workers. urbanization of migrant He founded a philanthropic Postdoctoral Fellow Niu Dong: A Postdoctoral at the School of Public Policy and Management at T Niu will be working Dr. University, His research with Mary Gallagher. transition focuses on China’s into a destination country for and how well prepared migration, a China is for the shift from Feng Cuiyang: A PhD candidate of Petroleum at China University Feng will be in Beijing, Ms. working with Ming Xu in the Resources U-M School of Natural Her work and the Environment. will focus on the environmental effects of oil and gas develop- ment, specifically focused on : Joining us from from : Joining us Fan Chenggong Languages the School of Foreign - at Tianjin Univer and Literature Fan will be working Dr. sity, Rolston in ALC. with David on the will focus His research of English language response to the English language speakers of Jin Ping Mei version translated ), especially the translation by David T ), especially the translation LRCCS Visiting Scholars 2017-2018 Scholars Visiting LRCCS - classes of business administra free to provide project workers. development to young migrant tion and career University and U-M. University source country to a destination country for immigrants. country to a destination country for immigrants. source in SSCI journals and He hopes to publish two papers also develop a network of like-minded academics for between T collaborations research future energy and water consumption. She hopes her work energy between management will contribute to synergetic e policy. and water resourc energy ( 金瓶梅 nglish speakers how native English speakers He would like to compare Mei with how native Chinese Jin Ping understand it. He hopes his work will contrib- understand speakers of other Chinese classics. ute to better translations

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 — 15 14 Student News Adrian Carney, LRCCS MA student, is a dual-degree student with the Ford School of Public Policy. During This past summer Michael Bumann, LRCCS MA the summer, he interned with the International Trade student, traveled to China for one month in order to Administration at the Department of Commerce, with conduct research in university classrooms. His project a focus on exporting to Chinese markets. He will be focuses specifically on looking at foreign teachers in graduating this fall. He plans to work in international Chinese universities and the students they teach. By economics. observing foreign teacher classrooms, and interviewing both teachers and students, he sought to gain perspec- Marilyn Evenmo, LRCCS MA tive on how teachers and students accommodate the student, spent the summer at the cultural scripts of teaching and learning of the other. CET Kunming Summer program Classroom observations were filmed by two cameras, taking intensive fourth year one focused on the teacher and the other trained on Chinese. This was her first time in the students. These videos, supplemented by student China and she felt very fortunate and teacher interviews, will eventually become case to have received a summer FLAS studies, which will, in turn, become the core of a award which made this opportu- teacher training course designed to help Americans nity possible. She has been taking adapt to life and work at a Chinese university. Chinese since high school so was really exciting for her to finally get to be in China. Aside from the intensive Dr. Kevin Miller, U-M Department of Psychology and fourth year Chinese class, the strict language pledge School of Education, kindly offered his counsel and lent which requires that students speak only Chinese 24/7 Michael the video and audio recording equipment was a challenging but really great learning experience. necessary to complete his project. The trip was made The texts they were reading in class covered a wide vari- possible by a generous LRCCS Summer Fellowship, for ety of social and political topics which she hoped would which he is very thankful. help her develop the reading skills needed to utilize Chinese language sources when carrying out research for her MA thesis. Outside of academics, the CET Kunming summer program provided lots of opportuni- ties for students to explore the city of Kunming and also Yunnan. After the midterm exams, she planned to go to Dali, Yunnan. She was confident that by the end of the program she will have increased both her Chinese language proficiency and understanding of Chinese culture.

Joseph Ho graduated April 2017 from the U-M Department of History and will start as Assistant Professor of East Asian History at Albion College, Michigan this coming fall. He has also become an LRCCS Center Associate. His dissertation title is “All Things Visible and Invisible: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Christian Missions in Modern China.” This summer, he was a Henry Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ricci Institute for Chinese- Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco, where he spent June to August researching a large trove of recently uncovered color slides and LRCCS MA student Michael Bumann, second from left, summer 2017. photographic material produced by California Jesuits in Cold War Taiwan (1950-1980). He was also awarded the David M. Stowe Fund for Mission Research by the Yale University Divinity School Library, and traveled to New Haven in late June to examine original 16mm films of

Student & Alumni News ang Zheng. His ang Zheng. completed his completed Hubbard Joshua women’s history and PhD in the winter 2017 studies during of the direction term, under Pär Cassel Professor advisers W and Professor which he defended dissertation, - is titled “Reproduc in April 2017, tive Subjects: The Global Politics e congratulate Dr. Hubbard on his new position. on his Hubbard Dr. e congratulate Weihang Wang at the Third Front Museum in Panzhihua, Sichuan of Health in China, 1927–1964.” Joshua has accepted of Health in China, 1927–1964.” History at the of ssistant Professor an appointment as A August which began in College of William and Mary, W 2017. LRCCS MA student, conducted , Wang Weihang and Sichuan during the summer in Chongqing research in studying the interested She is currently of 2017. Movement Front and social effect of the Third cultural Her society. families and local (1964-1990) on migrant plants in Front mainly focuses on the Third research Sichuan and Chongqing. As an important national Five-Year third plan and a critical part of the strategic number a large government transferred Plan, the central of workers of coastal factories together with millions She wants to study the interior. to China’s and soldiers Front Third challenges and advantages faced by the with local How did they interact families. migrant built workers How these migrant society and culture? in the She is also interested their own “factory culture”? identity cultural workers’ of the migrant reconstruction their children. as well as the issue of identity crisis for to the 816 she went As part of her summer research, ashington and published by Brill. He has two publications currently in production and in production currently He has two publications military atrocities shot by an Episcopal missionary shot military atrocities during the Nanjing Massacre. is a book The first coming months. in the to be released Emeritus Charlie Bright co-edited with U-M Professor of and Occupation in China: The Letters entitled War 1937-1938, Hangzhou, an American Missionary from Rowman and Press and published by Lehigh University - and annotates a com & Littlefield. The book reproduces by Bright’s written plete set of rich documentary letters at Hangchow Christian an administrator grandfather, occupation College, during the Japanese invasion and from It details conditions on the ground of the city. caught of an embedded foreigner the perspective and occupation in-between violent military clashes, tensions and local political and religious collaboration, in wartime. The second publication is a chapter on in interwar and filmmaking missionary photography materials and visual Republican China—based on rare appear in will other private primary sources—which to Indigenous Missionary Christianity: From China’s hitworth, edited by Anthony E. Clark at W Church in Spokane, W University The Ricci Institute, San Francisco, CA

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17 16 Nuclear Military Plant in Baitao, Chongqing and the Incoming MA Students Third Front Museum in Panzhihua, Sichuan. The 816 Nuclear Military Plant is a huge underground nuclear Hanyu Hou completed her BA in comparative language base and an important part of the Third Front Move- and literature from UC Berkeley and would like to focus ment. The nuclear project stopped in 1984 and eventu- on pre-modern Chinese fiction and drama by exploring ally opened to tourists in 2010. Her tour guide told her the interplay between historical cities and narrative that most of the tour guides who work here, including space. Hanyu plans to continue on an academic path herself, are the second or the third generation of the with U-M as a stepping stone to further study and Third Front migrants. The plant itself turned into a teaching. chemical plant in the 1980s and it continues to be a major employer in Baitao. Raymond Dayi Hsu graduated with a BA and MA in anthropology from National Taiwan University. Jiannan Zhao graduated from the LRCCS MA program Raymond’s research topic melds popular tradition, in May 2017 and is now a doctorate student in political nationalism, and art through religious festivals. science at the University of California, San Diego, where His graduate plans at U-M include an interdisciplinary he will be studying comparative public opinion and approach to explore dance, literature, politics and political behavior, with a regional focus on China. music in contemporary conceptions of Chinese deities and ritual practice.

Weiwei Lu is graduating from Nankai University in Tianjin with a passion for Song dynasty history and social customs. Weiwei would like to pursue an academic career in the hopes of also revitalizing and modernizing impressions of ancient capital cities in China.

Incoming PhD Students

Andrea Valedon Trapote will be working with Professor Christian de Pee in the U-M Department of History. Her focus is on Chinese Islam, intellectual history, and trans-

LRCCS Orientation, August 31, 2017: From left: Will Thomson, LRCCS postdoctoral cultural intellectual networks fellow and lecturer, Elizabeth Berger, LRCCS postdoctoral fellow, Edwin Wang, PhD in Qing China. student in the School of Information, Anne Rebull, LRCCS postdoctoral fellow, Raymond Hsu, LRCCS MA student, Weiwei Lu, LRCCS MA student, (in back) Lei Duan, LRCCS postdoctoral fellow, Hanyu Hou, LRCCS MA student, Charlotte Yiu, PhD student in ALC, and Yeori Park, PhD student in Anthropology. Charlotte Chun Lam Yiu is an incoming doctoral student in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures working with Professor David Rolston. Her area of research includes late imperial fiction, Chinese literature, literary criticism, and translation. ashington. omlonovic is now active omlonovic is now active acoma, W egional Custom and the ubstance: Regional Custom A City of S Leslie Stone and her two younger children off to Hong Kong in March, 2017. year of Stone (LRCCS MA 1994) is in her 23rd Leslie - running U.S.-China exchange and fellowship pro Association in 2011 She joined the Yale-China grams. of Director and is now based in New Haven in the role planning year and in a strategic of Education. They are new and to launching some looking forward are excellence for while maintaining exciting programs the Yale-China including their long-standing programs, husband recently Fellowship. Her artist illustrator that can be paintings painted a series of Hong Kong http://www.michaelsloan.net/hong-kong- viewed here: sketchbooks/ and this is a link to his newest work: http://www.michaelsloan.net/welcome-to-the-new- world/. Her older son (17) and daughter (14) both love learning Mandarin, which they began studying in Hong and most loves Hong Kong Her youngest son (10) Kong. especially eating cha siu bao. ite of Memory in the Memory in as a Site of Xiang Ziyin of The Garden of Chinese Journal Literati” Song of Southern Writings 19-55. A chapter April 2017): 4.1 ( and Culture Literature an auxiliary capital on the city of Shaoxing as he wrote entitled, “ of a Southern Song Landscape Shaoxing in Political book coedited by Joseph was included in a Rhapsody,” and Martin Powers Lam, Shuen-fu Lin, Christian de Pee, Senses of the on the Southern Song city of Hangzhou: Southern Song of Hangzhou in the City: Perceptions 235-254. 2017): Press, University Chinese (Hong Kong: in Bibliographies for the Oxford And an on-line entry Song dynasty poet Chinese Studies on the famous with over 200 entries which he Su Shi (1037-1101) T with Kathleen co-authored in “Su Shi (1037-1011)” and available for reference: in Chinese Bibliographies Tim Wright, ed. Oxford April 27, Press, University Oxford Studies. New York: www.oxfordbibliographies.com. 2017. he accepted a position as of fall 2017, additionally, at Puget to teach as a Visiting Assistant Professor in T Sound University In her first week of work, she traveled with week of work, she traveled In her first nyder on his sixth trade mission to China, Governor Snyder on his sixth trade busy planning his seventh mission. and is currently with Since joining MCIC, she has built relationships and governmental units in businesses, individuals, China on behalf of the State of Michigan. She has Michigan on the Department of also represented roadshow SelectUSA investment attraction Commerce’s Chinese language marketing China, created across Michigan as a business destination, material promoting and developed the website michiganchina.org. Benjamin Ridgway (PhD ALC 2005), had a very year at Grinnell College during 2016-17. productive of a 12th He published an article on how the garden century scholar-official, Xiang Ziyin (1085-1152), after became a “site of memory” for two generations Xiang fled to southern China following the invasion dynasty, and occupation of the north by the Jurchen entitled, “Southern Osmathus and Northern Pear: 2013) joined the (LRCCS MA 2013) Courtney Henderson as a Michigan-China Innovation Center (MCIC) 2016. Business Development Manager in October the State of from with a grant MCIC, founded in 2016 specializing in organization Michigan, is a nonprofit and increasing investment, attracting jobs, creating win-win competitiveness in Michigan by developing to be using with China. Courtney is thrilled ventures home state. to serve her her Chinese studies training Governor Rick Snyder and Courtney Henderson at a tea farm in Hangzhou, China (November 2016) Alumni News

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 — 19 18 Professor Brian Coppola, U-M and SJTU students, 2017. Photo courtesy of Zhao Wenbo, SJTU

LRCCS Experiential Learning Fund (ELF) Ten U-M Chemistry Students Attend Summer 2017 Courses in Shanghai

By Brian Coppola, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry

recent years, a number of universities in degree program. Financial assistance for the U-M China have been offering their students students toward their travel and housing was generously English-language and discipline-based provided by the Charles Meeske Fund (Chemistry courses during intensive, 2-4 week summer Department), an Experiential Learning Fund Grant from Interms. Professor Brian P. Coppola, U-M Chemistry, has the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and been collaborating with Nanjing University and Shanghai the U-M Office of Financial Aid. Jiao Tong University to help identify highly qualified The Chemical Biology course was team taught by instructors for these courses. Professor Coppola and Professor Jean-Paul Desaulniers, This year, the Zhiyuan (Honors) College at Shanghai a former U-M post-doc and participant in the chemistry Jiao Tong University (SJTU) offered a pair of 4-week department’s future faculty program, who is currently courses during July. SJTU provided tuition-free enroll- on the faculty at the University of Ontario Institute of ment to U-M students who wished to attend these Technology. Professor Melissa Reynolds, Colorado State classes. Notably, the topical areas (An Introduction to University, who is also a former U-M PhD student, Chemical Biology and Bio-Organic Reaction Mechanisms, taught the Bio-Analytical course. and Bioanalytical Chemistry) were both the type of The Chemical Biology course was designed around intermediate elective courses that have been challenging active classroom problem solving, student presentation, for the U-M chemistry department to offer due to and discussion of advanced topics. Professors Coppola staffing and enrollment demands in its basic program. and Desaulniers, reflecting on the class, both noted that Ten U-M students joined the 10 SJTU students who having the mixture of SJTU and U-M students creates an were registered for these classes. The summer program in exciting and positive energy for a classroom setting. “The Shanghai created a two-fold opportunity for the U-M students from both countries are eager to work together science students: to study abroad as members of classes during the class meetings,” says Professor Desaulniers, “and that are genuinely being offered to the local students, (as we hear it) no one has been shy about getting together and to fulfill upper level course credit in their U-M outside of class for joint outings, meals, and so on.” fact that I want to pursue the fact that I want to pursue and pharmaceutical research these bio-pharmacy research, helped me a lot in courses experiment design, especially in considering real-life I am actually from situations. e talked a lot about culture difference, difference, e talked a lot about culture “Studying alongside the SJTU students only proved Wu is a native of Shanghai, and U-M student Yujin It is not surprising to say that the students did not Professor Jean-Paul Desaulniers, UOIT Chemistry and former U-M post-doc. Photo courtesy of Zhao Wenbo, SJTU to show how global the study of chemistry is and will to show how global the study of chemistry in program “The study abroad become,” says Maureen. academi- Shanghai was an invaluable experience both Chemistry may be our universal cally and culturally. differences language, but our experiences and cultural In learning to it. will always color our approaches together, mechanisms and analytical methods organic study afforded to both parties gained a new approach based on our into chemistry by our differing perspectives at a foreign educational experience. In addition, studying and exploring Shanghai and its surroundings university under- was an excellent way to develop a hands-on standing of Chinese culture. in his home- pride in having his classmates he took great “The experience at SJTU town for the summer program. very valuable. Because of the were All courses was great. my hometown to others introducing Shanghai. Thus, was a very great and staying with American students, experience. W education and lifestyle, which somehow gave me an of America as well as how even better understanding people think about China.” spirits led know what to expect, but their adventuresome “having the opportunity to wrote John Hartet the way. take classes for a month in China was even better than I expected. Learning never ceased even when outside the aylor teiger, T ony Lim, Madelaine Steiger, t the closing ceremony, Professor Huai Sun, SJTU Professor At the closing ceremony, who The U-M chemistry and biochemistry majors In her reflections on the experience, Karen wrote wrote Karen on the experience, In her reflections but our experiences and cultural differences differences but our experiences and cultural U-M students celebrating a birthday, perhaps with a bit too much enthusiasm, during a break between classes. Photo courtesy of Zhao Wenbo, SJTU director for the program, remarked “I think this program “I think this program remarked for the program, director students who we want to be heading: is exactly where taking credit, for the same sitting in the same room, are teaching strengths the from drawing the same courses, we are future, best suited for the task. In the that are Coppola with Professor eager to expand our relationship excellent of Michigan, to identify and the University and to also areas, classes in other and provide teachers research summer undergraduate bilateral provide experiences.” Chong, Karen Maureen in these classes were enrolled Price, T Hug, Kara U students. Because our two both the U-M and SJTU students. educations up until this different received groups critical to different able to get exposure point, we were the language barrier and working around thinking skills, concise in and more helped us learn how to be clearer chemistry and communi- practical our work. Aside from was a fantastic way to I feel this program cation skills, in and an exercise to a new culture gain exposure receive difficult to that’s patience and understanding without leaving our home institution.” aajan Patel, and Wu, John Hartert, Saajan Patel, Yujin Morgan, Natalie Potter. experience for was a valuable intercultural “this program will always color our approaches to it.” will always color our approaches “Chemistry may be our universal language, language, “Chemistry may be our universal

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 — 21 20 Closing ceremony from the 2017 SJTU program (SJTU Professor SUN Huai, center rear, and Colorado State Professor and U-M PhD graduate Melissa Reynolds, front row, second from right). Photo courtesy of Zhao Wenbo, SJTU classroom. Every trivial component of the Chinese Zheng Fanfan, one of the outstanding SJTU students, culture functioned to pry apart my ideas cemented in also reflected on her expectations. “We were unsure about place about the natural way of life. Each culture has so many aspects of these courses: different teaching styles, its own way, and that’s OK.” lots of technical words in English, and working together Madeleine Steiger’s reaction is not unusual for with the foreign students. Almost immediately, me and people after their first visit. After returning, she tells my classmates experienced the great benefits from all of that “people keep asking me what China was like and these things. The classroom environment was quite I still haven’t come up with a good answer. There is no open, and students could debate their ideas—and even way for me to sum up everything I learned about and go to the board to present solutions. We were also able saw in China, so I’ve started to just tell people ‘go to to learn a lot about American culture, not only from China.’ I don’t know what I expected Shanghai to be, conversations, but from spending time with our new but I know that the city and the people are wonderful friends from University of Michigan.” and unique and so very different from my home and I “We have been providing these kinds of deep and couldn’t have imagined it better myself. I expected to meaningful international experiences for chemistry find that China was essentially the same as everywhere students – in research and now in classroom work – else, but it isn’t, and it’s magnificent. I hope more and since 2007” notes Professor Coppola. “I count this work more students will continue to do this program, so they among the top things I have been able to do, as an can experience all of the amazing things about SJTU educator. Ten years later, not only am I still in touch and the rest of China that I simply cannot put into with many of the students (from both countries), but words. There’s so much to learn in and from China, and they are still in touch with one another, moving into their everyone should have the chance to go. independent careers with a network of international “A program such as this is so essential to developing contacts whom they have know for a decade, already.” student’s skills not only in an academics setting, but a Saajan Patel shared: “I enjoyed my time in Shanghai life setting as well.” Natalie Potter continues, “we were a lot, it was an excellent experience that allowed me to able to learn how academics and student life differ understand and learn from a different culture. One internationally and how they were similar, as well as particular aspect of the program I liked most was being learn how to navigate life in a country where most of partnered up with a local student that was willing to us didn’t know the language or culture very well all help me out. This, in conjunction with the small while earning credit and learning more about chemical classroom size, allowed me to build a strong relationship concepts necessary to further our knowledge for the with him and other students, some of whom I a still in future. As our world becomes more intertwined and touch with. Overall, I think it was a great experience and relying on international collaborations to ensure the I definitely think it should continue every year. I think progress of our countries, programs such as this help it’s important to explore other parts of the world and teach the next generation about our world first hand by experience new things. The only thing I would have living in the different parts that make up our world.” changed was for it to have been a longer program!” ee ingapore. in Singapore. echnological University eek School of Communication and Information, in North America. And the Cinetopia International Film is expanding but Festival! It has been only four years, and screenings in terms of the number of quite rapidly its audience size. Electric Shadows was launched four ago, and is steadily gaining popularity. years Lee at the Sangjoon by Professor curated It was first When Arts and Cultures. U-M Department of Screen film series, initiated the Chinese contemporary we first that could be event we thought of a popular culture which people, public, through appealing to the general China. Chinese and non-Chinese, learn and experience the to curate Sangjoon Lee was re-invited Professor he is teaching at the W Currently, film series. 2017 Kim W Nanyang T Lee initially selected eight contemporary Professor internationally premiered Chinese films that were which only six will be from between 2016-2017, The beginning October 6, 2017. on Fridays, screened (Oct. 6) Duckweed 乘风破 film candidates are current The Summer is Gone 八月 (2016); (Oct. 13) 浪 (2017); Soul (Oct. 27) 树大招风 (2016); (Oct. 20) Trivisa 3) Xuanzhang 大唐 (Nov. Mate 七月与安生 (2016); All film (2016). Totem Wolf 10) and (Nov. 玄奘 (2016); will be held at the Angell Hall auditorium screenings on the will have a small reception and we this year, check out CIUM website confucius. Please opening day. up-to-date umich.edu or subscribe CIUM to receive information about the film series and all other exciting The Electric Shadows Film Series events CIUM presents. by the Liebethal-Rogel Center for is co-sponsored Chinese Studies. atching eiser Hall on central campus. Light campus. eiser Hall on central he flyer for the series will be available in . The flyer for the series will be available in eries” and is being held on Series” and is being held uesday Lecture oom 110 in the in the Room 110 in 11:30am–12:30pm uesdays from Events a foreign film at a university auditorium or attending a film at a university a foreign film panel discussion during some kind of international film festival is no longer a unique thing in Ann Arbor, towns in the nation. diverse one of the most culturally For example, the Ann Arbor Film Festival celebrated boasting its long their 55th film festival last March, history and being the oldest experimental film festival refreshments with coffee and tea will be available. with refreshments to get a good seat. A total be sure Come a little early to series: in the fall be featured will of eleven presentations Sept. 26); Nan Jia (Oct. 3); Megan Ang ( Yuen Yuen Jun Zhang (Oct. 24); Thomas Kelly (Oct. 10); Bryson 7); Thomas Buoye (Nov. (Nov. John Osburg (Oct. 31); Amanda Goodman (Nov. 21); Javed (Nov. 14); Jeffrey (Dec. 28); Siyuan Liu (Dec. 5); and Melanie Manion is 12). A complete listing of all titles and synopses the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese available from Studies and on the LRCCS website at: www.ii.umich. edu/lrccs September. Series Film Electric Shadows The Fall 2017 the Public and Open to 7:00pm, Free Fridays, Angell Hall Auditorium MI 48109-1003 Ann Arbor, 435 S. State Street, U-M Confucius Institute Jiyoung Lee, Assistant Director, film series the 4th Chinese contemporary Presenting of Michigan, Electric Shadows 2017 at the University featuring six will be held this October and November W films. Chinese highly acclaimed contemporary Fall 2017 LRCCS Events LRCCS 2017 Fall Series Lecture LRCCS Tuesday The Fall 2017 New Location: New Time and Please Note: 11:30am-12:30pm Tuesdays Hall, Room 110 Weiser MI 48109-1042 Ann Arbor, Street, 500 Church Series is now called Lecture Noon The China Center’s the “T T W newly renovated

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23 22 CHINA Town Hall LRCCS Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series Local Connections, National Reflections China’s Economic Reform in the Wake of the Tuesday, October 24, 2017 19th Party Congress Weiser Hall, Room 1010 David Dollar, Senior Fellow, John. L. Thornton China 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1042 Center, Brookings Institution 5:00pm Reception, 6:00pm Presentation and December 5, 2017, 4:00pm 7:00pm Live Webcast Annenberg Auditorium, Room 1120 Weill Hall The U-M China Center will Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy partner with the National 735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI Committee on US -China China’s economic reform has been stalled for some years Relations in New York for its and in the meantime financial risks are building up. With annual CHINA Town Hall, a leadership issues settled by the 19th Congress, what are national day of China-related the prospects for vigorous economic reform? What are programming. The evening will the key problems that Beijing needs to tackle? And how begin with a reception at 5:00pm does this affect U.S.-China economic relations? in the 10th floor event space in David Dollar is a senior fellow Weiser Hall, and will be followed at the Brookings Institution’s at 6:00pm by a presentation John L. Thornton China Center. given by Damien Ma, Fellow and He is a leading expert on Associate Director of the Think China’s economy and U.S.-China Tank at the Paulson Institute. At economic relations. From 2009 to 7:00pm, we will be broadcasting 2013 he was the U.S. Treasury’s a live webcast of a presentation economic and financial emissary by The Honorable Susan E. Rice, to China. Before his time at Former National Security Advisor Treasury, Dollar worked at the World Bank for 20 years, and US Ambassador to the United Nations. The webcast and from 2004 to 2009 was country director for China will be moderated by Mr. Stephen A. Orlins, President, and Mongolia. His other World Bank assignments primarily National Committee on US-China Relations. The event focused on Asian economies, including South Korea, is free and open to the public. Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Bangladesh and India.

From 1995 to 2004, Dollar worked in the World Bank’s research department. Prior to his World Bank career, Dollar was an assistant professor of economics at UCLA, spending a semester in Beijing teaching at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The LRCCS Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series provides a unique opportunity for U-M students, faculty, and community at large to attend presentations given by prominent individuals whose lives and careers have had significant public impact on advancing relationships with China and deepening understanding of China.

Education About Asia Full Open Access Association for Asian Studies Education About Asia (EAA), published by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), is a teaching resource for all those with an interest in Asia. Articles and reviews in EAA cover a wide range of topics and times periods. Thematic issues are distributed in conjunction with U-M teacher workshops. EAA is now expanding its availability. The print version will continue to be available, and all past and current issues of EAA will be digitized and included on the EAA website (www.asian-studies.org/EAA), complimentary with full public access and no registration required. Face Changing ~ Beijing opera Stepanchuk: Face Changing ~ Beijing opera Carol of his face for the role prepares performer Li Yang father in the Kunqu performance of Romeo Juliet’s art forms. and Julie, showing new styles in traditional eiser Hall

: Phone Worship ~ When I first glimpsed ~ When I first Brian Bruya: Phone Worship holding up this scene, I thought the women were form of worship incense sticks and doing the traditional of this statue of Confucius. In fact, it is a more in front modern kind of worship. Submissions for the 2017 LRCCS Photo Exhibit for the 2017 Submissions for house, in which they have resided grandparents’ Eejian’s Eejian Huang: Jiangxi House ~ Ruichang, Jiangxi Province. decades ago. several dated from relics with a lot of cultural house in Jiangxi Province a common country It’s over 60 years. tudies-community event soliciting images of China, the contest and exhibit is now in its eighth the contest and exhibit is now in its event soliciting images of China, A Chinese Studies-community invited to submit Studies were and friends of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese faculty, Students, year. topic focuses on the notion of specific theme. This year’s year’s each up to five photo entries addressing the norm or are actions may stand out from or individuals where PULSE, which seeks to showcase groups the “pulse” of a living and dynamic culture. and whose movements constitute in tradition, rooted LRCCS Photo Exhibit: Pulse LRCCS Photo 2017 November 1-30, Space (Room 547), W Fifth Floor Gallery rbor, MI 48109-1042 MI Ann Arbor, Street, 500 Church

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University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 — 25 24 PULSE Teacher participants at U-M Library Wang Qingsong, Year of the Rooster Installation

Past Outreach LRCCS Campus/Community Event Teacher Workshop February 8-9, 2017 Year of the Rooster Installation, Fueling the spark that keeps teachers Lunar New Year Celebration energized and engaged May 19-20, 2017 LRCCS Distinguished Visiting Artist, Wang Qingsong, At the Edges, Over Land and Sea: created a pop-up New Year installation at North Quad, East Asia Through Maps Room 2435 as part of the campus-wide Lunar New Year celebrating Year of the Rooster. Effulgent, over- The U-M East Asia outreach team—Lieberthal-Rogel indulgent as if New Year was suspended in mid-air-with Center for Chinese Studies in collaboration with Nam enough bok choy, cabbage and eggplant to feed the Center for Korean Studies and Center for Japanese dancing lions of the New Year, this abundantly colorful Studies—packed a week-end in mid-May with immersive exhibit was featured as the welcoming event for a talks on maps and cultural exchange in the 10th annual growing cohort of international students from the workshop for teachers. U-M faculty Micah Auerbach, U-M School of Information. LRCCS postdoc Kyoungjin Bae and Nam Center postdoc Wang Qingsong is both a painter and internationally- Jiun Bang together with U-M librarians Karl Longstreth renown photographer who documents the rapid and Liangyu Fu and guest curator Richard Pegg from the material and social changes occurring in China. His Maclean Collection in Chicago covered topics ranging highly regarded work has been seen in preeminent from the aesthetics of cartography and the transnational galleries and museums around the world, including flow of fans and celadons to Buddhist pilgrimages and the Getty Centre in Los Angeles, the Philadelphia the contentious art of labeling land/water, rocks/reefs Museum of Art, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern in in East Asia. Over the 2-day workshop event, teachers Spain, the San Francisco Museum of Art, MUMOK in and staff also traversed the noodle road from Urumchi Austria, Yuangong Art Museum in Shanghai, a solo to Kashgar and further westward to Sicily, eating over exhibition at New York’s International Centre of 20 tubs of ramen seasoned with freshly ground spice Photography, and many more. blends. Additional highlights: a tour of East Asian He is currently working on a new photographic artifacts at UMMA, displays of cartographic rarities from project and upcoming exhibit (TBD) for the newly the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library map collection, opened Penny Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor and a bonus give away of East Asian teaching materials. on the first floor of the McKinley Towne Centre at Thanks to the teachers from Pioneer High School Ann 201 S. Division Street. Arbor, Huron High School, Washtenaw Community College, Emerson School, Pathways High School, Scarlett Middle School, Lake Shore High School, Brighton High School, Cranbrook Schools, Cass Technical High School, Riverside Academy, and others who attended and continue to build on teaching strategies through such workshops.

Outreach orkshops and an artist residency (to be scheduled (to be orkshops and an artist residency o engage students and teachers in the nuances of in the o engage students and teachers Back stage. Photo courtesy stage.Back Stepanchuk Photo Carol of The Art and Practice of Chinese Lianpu of Chinese Practice The Art and 中国国剧脸谱 Other Self as Imagined Face to Face: the please contact time to be determined; Date and information. for more China Center make-up vivid and dramatic Lianpu mask designs, the jing (action-based) characters for schemes reserved painted on faces and also captured are in Chinese opera, in painting, prints and decorative motifs as decorative styles (‘surfacescapes’)— These striking painted objects. and heroes, assassins, of generals, marking the identities at the nexus of art as storytelling—fall bandits in theatre design, and art as commodity. art as visual practice, T developing an theatrical design and symbol, we will be pattern how color, that focuses on experiential program and the opera types in character and emotion reveal art form. ways this can be adapted into a participatory W demonstrations, will provide in Winter or Fall 2018) the conventions and materials to unpack mini-exhibits, while exploring masks of line and coloring used in opera on opera the impact of face painting techniques and visual culture. 2018 Workshop Outreach Upcoming Residency and Artist estern Cultural History at the estern Cultural ang Zheng), U-M doctoral ang Zheng), U-M doctoral LRCCS Symposium Early PRC and the War, The Republic, the Civil School the Eyes of the Shanghai American through May 19-20, 2017 Cassel Par Joseph Ho (History) and Prof. Dr. Organizers: Michigan scholarship (History). This symposium merged with and culture politics, modern history, on China’s Shanghai the lived experiences and memories of the WWII alumni— surviving post- American School (SAS)’s with the individuals whose lives collectively overlapped Republican China to the from tumultuous transition PRC. The SAS alumni attended the symposium as special concert with the in guests and their community reunion event. Cassel, Ernest Young, LRCCS-affiliated faculty (Par Mary Gallagher and W student, Joseph Ho, Professor Emeritus Charlie Bright, student, Joseph Ho, Professor Stephanie students (Angie Baecker, and invited graduate alongside Chen and Lou Mo) presented de Oliveira the Ricci Xiaoxin Wu from and Dr. SAS guest speakers Institute for Chinese-W an Francisco. Ambassador J. Stapleton of San Francisco. University in Shanghai Roy—himself an SAS alumnus and present change of 1949 – gave the keynote during the regime the U-M by the U-M Asia Library, Co-sponsored address. Institute for and the Eisenberg Department of History, Historical Studies. Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy and Dr. Joseph Ho at China between Worlds Conference. Photo courtesy of Joseph Ho

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 — 27 26 Asia Library Chinese Dance Collection and Exhibition Liangyu’s top project in the past year was no doubt Liangyu Fu, Chinese Collections Librarian “Chinese Dance: National Movements in a Revolutionary Time flies and Liangyu Fu has already finished her fourth Age, 1945-1965,” a library exhibition co-curated with year serving as your Chinese Studies Librarian. It was a Professor Emily Wilcox (Asian Languages and Cultures) very fruitful year with many highlights of Library-LRCCS and with the assistance of Ruby MacDougall (PhD partnership (see below). Besides numerous exciting student at ALC). On display from March 1 to May 15, this projects at the library, Liangyu also shared her research multi-media exhibition was entirely based upon the Asia with a broad audience at the Association of College and Library’s unique Chinese Dance Collection, the largest Research Libraries annual conference, Council on East in North America. It was also the first China-themed Asian Libraries annual conference, and Fudan University exhibition held at the Hatcher Gallery. In addition, the Library. She successfully organized the Chinese American “Pioneer of Chinese Dance” digital archive was officially Librarian Association Midwest Chapter annual conference launched along with the exhibition. held at the Chicago Public Library Chinatown Branch During the 9-month preparation for the exhibition this April. Moreover, she was awarded a Michigan- and 3-year collection development effort, Liangyu and Fudan Collaborative Research Grant for the project on Emily Wilcox closely collaborated with LRCCS and many Open Access movement in China. She also enjoyed her units across the Library and campus. The exhibition research trip to England this past summer to study the soon became very popular after its opening, drawing a changing concept of “useful knowledge” in China during large size of audience from U-M and Ann Arbor, as well the nineteenth century and her talks at Oxford and as scholars from across the countries and international Cambridge. visitors. It also attracted a great deal of media attention. Within the U-M, a beautifully illustrated story was New Acquisitions released by Global Michigan and prominently featured From June 2016 to May 2017, the Asia Library acquired on the U-M homepage from May 8 to May 14. The 3,637 titles of printed materials (6,531 volumes in total) exhibition project was also widely covered in both China and 392 volumes of serials added to our current journal and the U.S. on many digital news platforms, in print, subscriptions to support research and teaching in Chinese studies. We also received Professor Kenneth Lieberthal’s Top: Supplementary exhibition on East Asian dance exchange at the Asia Library generous donation of 240 volumes of Chinese books Reference Room. Photo courtesy of Liangyu Fu from his personal collection. Many thanks to the Chinese Bottom: Promotional materials for the exhibition. Photo courtesy of Eunjin Lee team members who provided technical services for these resources: Chinese catalogers Gengna Wang and Mei Wang, Chinese material acquisition specialist I-Chun Wang, and student assistants Chieh-Lin Wu (17’ School of Information graduate) and Cheng Li (18’ School of Social Work graduate student). This year we acquired three much-needed new databases to support your research, including Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online, Zhonghua Ancient Books Database 中华经典 古籍数据库, and China Government Gazettes Full-text Database 中国政报公报期刊文献总库. Please stay tuned for more electronic resources in the Fall semester.

Resources e will continue this tudies shared his pre-modern text project text project his pre-modern Chinese Studies shared (Ctext) and the OCR method he designed. In April, LRCCS talked about using text Glenn Tiffert from Dr. mining method to uncover patterns of censorship Our faculty, in Chinese academic journal databases. have been very enthusiastic and librarians students, and projects research about all these groundbreaking W hands-on learning opportunities. well-received series this coming fall semester. series this coming fall semester. well-received quality All these new initiatives showcase the library’s with the Chinese services and close collaboration committed They are community. studies research to working with LRCCS faculty and students on and educational for research developing special projects Please don’t hesitate to contact Liangyu if purposes. you have any ideas or would like to know what the can do to help you. library and on TV. Liangyu plans to continue developing an online the Chinese Dance Collection and create with the project exhibition this coming year to share the world. around audience from more “Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies” Series Liangyu started the “Deep Dive into Digital In fall 2016, and Data Methods for Chinese Studies” workshop Mary with Professor co-directed a project series, Science). With a Gallagher (Department of Political funded by LRCCS, we have invited grant generous of digital on the vanguard who are speakers three methods in Chinese studies to and data research Last and teach workshops. on their research present U-M Institute for Xu from Hongwei November Dr. discussed database construction for Social Research This February Dr. population-based social research. Fairbank Center for Harvard’s from Donald Sturgeon Emily Wilcox and Liangyu Fu look at Chinese Dance Collection materials together. Photo by Eric Bronson Eric by Photo together. Chinese materials Collection Dance at look Liangyu Fu and Wilcox Emily “Deep Dive” event with Hongwei Xu. Photo by Liangyu Fu

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 — 29 28 The China Data Center Lingling Zhang, CDC New Data: The China Data Center (CDC) is pleased to release the following new data products and services: “2015 China Administrative Boundary Maps”. This includes 2015 administrative boundary maps as an update of “The Administrative Boundary Maps of China: 1949-2014”. Thee maps are available at province, prefecture city and county levels; “US Map Library”. This online map library offers more than 200 million maps for the demographic and business data of US. Those maps provide comprehensive information of US at state, metropolitan, county, county division, place, tract, and block levels. Together with “China Professor Richard Barrett presenting one his donated books to Map Library”, they provide important data sources CDC Director Dr. Shuming Bao. Photo courtesy of Xiaosen Wang for US-China comparable studies; “China Economic Census Data with Province Maps (2004, 2008, Book Donation: China Data Center Director Shuming 2013)”: The product provides extensive information Bao received five boxes of statistical books published on manufacturing and service sectors in China. The in the 1980s from Professor Richard Barrett of the data product has integrated all three Economic Census University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Barrett data (2004, 2008, 2013) and the provincial GIS maps graduated from the U-M and was involved in the China of all Mainland China. See more details at http:// Data Center project established at the University of chinadatacenter.org/Announcement/default.aspx. Illinois at Chicago in the early 1990s.

2017——18 China NCPA Orchestra Lü Jia, conductor Wu Man, pipa Tuesday, November 7, 2017 // 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium

PROGRAM Qigang Chen New Work Harrison Concerto for Pipa and String Orchestra Brahms Symphony No. 4 in e minor, Op. 98

One of China’s great orchestras, from the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, makes its UMS debut with a new work commissioned by Qigang Chen, the music director of the 2008 Summer Olympics. American composer Lou Harrison’s pipa concerto shines a spotlight on the traditional Chinese lute, performed by the world’s reigning pipa virtuoso and Silk Road Ensemble member, Wu Man.

PRESENTING SPONSOR MEDIA SPONSOR Ilene H. Forsyth Choral Union WGTE 91.3 FM Endowment Fund, which supports an annual UMS Choral Union performance

Wu Man 734.764.2538 by Wind Music ——— UMS.ORG ’s ’s ’s website ’s lumni Memorial Hall. Alumni Memorial Hall. ’s est. Qian also plans to develop an est. Qian also plans to is presenting UMMA is presenting bicentennial year, U-M’s o celebrate of beautiful painting and a screen ang and Ming periods, Qian He in front of the Robert B. Jacobs Asian Art Conservation Laboratory, University of Michigan Museum of Art tates, Qian has held Qian has States, the United in Since arriving Boston, and Arts, of Fine Museum at the fellowships he honed his Art, where Museum of the Metropolitan In Michigan and lab management. skills in conservation A UMM works from to restoring he looks forward other American museums as well as from collections, that opportunities He foresees collections. and private given will only increase restoration for conservation and painting market is expanding the Chinese how rapidly in China and the W in conservation between U-M and exchange program Academy of such as the Central Chinese institutions is located he Conservation Laboratory Beijing. T Fine Arts, of UMMA on the second floor of to view the fascinating process welcome are Visitors glass doors paintings through and remounting restoring open hours. during the Museum’s T Alumni for Art: Michigan’s the exhibition Victors the collections works from which will feature Collectors, alumni. The exhibition was divided than 110 of more February 18 (on view from Figuration into two parts, July (on view from and Abstraction 2017) to June 11, to show the incredible in order 1 to October 29, 2017), in represented Chinese art is well of the works. breadth the from included tomb sculptures both parts: Figuration T has Abstraction the Qing period, while the women from artist Ye literati work by the Ming period a calligraphy related information on the exhibition, Guohua. For more for Art: Victors and the associated publication programs, A , visit the UMM Alumni Collectors Michigan’s at umma.umich.edu. ’s long- ’s echnology . echnology; YMgHwJXAP ang left to take a position erm 2017: Zhaojun Gao, Assistant erm 2017: ube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list= Curator of Asian Art Oyobe, Curator Natsu Laboratory Jacobs Asian Art Conservation The Robert B. of Art (UMMA) of Michigan Museum at the University ast Asian paintings E and remounting has been restoring in 1987. on paper and silk since it was established American is the only facility among The laboratory the conservation museums that specializes in university and has been an indispensable of East Asian paintings, museums and and public for the U-M campus, resource UMMA nationwide. In 2013, private collectors W time conservator Kewei Museum of Art. A year ago, a new at the Metropolitan Qian He, arrived to take over the laboratory. conservator, a family of Qian, a native of China, comes from grandfather, His great distinguished conservators. Dingzhi Liu (1888–1964), was one of the most revered in early 20th century China. Based in conservators important and remounted Liu restored Shanghai, Mr. paintings—including the Song period masterpiece Along the River During the Qingming Festival—for also his friends. many of whom were major collectors, of the Printing and was in charge grandfather Qian’s Museum, Palace Department of Beijing’s Restoration in his mother also worked until her retirement where Qian Beijing City University, from Since graduating 2007. including the conservation studios, has worked in several Heritage in Beijing, where Chinese Academy of Cultural museums paintings and works on paper from he restored all over China. He also worked in auction houses to gain experience in the management side of art conservation. University of Michigan Museum of Art University ssistant Professor from Hunan T from Xiao, Assistant Professor Yanfei and Science University. Professor from the Zhejiang University of T the Zhejiang University from Professor he CDC held a The CDC Workshop: Training Data Center China Analytics” and Management on “Data workshop training from with participants 2017 April 17 to 22, from data The topics cover China and Hong Kong. Mainland and preservation, curation data and processing, collection data network systems and and promotion, data services intelligent spatial integration, spatial data infrastructure, data analytics. data service, and big Series on YouTube: Webinar China Data Center since bi-monthly webinars The CDC has been offering now available are webinars Those recoded January 2016. T on You SJuCVuTL PLqC9lrhW1VvYR6Cb following The CDC will host the New Center Visitors: Fall T in visiting scholars

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2017 — 31 30 LRCCS Needs Your Help

ince 1961, LRCCS has built country-specific endowments to support faculty and student We ask your support for the U-M research and travel, visiting lecturers, and most recently an innovative interdisciplinary Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Sseminar in Chinese Studies. We endeavor to strengthen our central academic and intellec- Studies endowments. Your gifts will tual mission to train students by seeking to increase the number of fellowships available to both serve as an essential component in our M.A. and Ph.D. students. As always, your invaluable support makes these programs possible. accomplishing our center objectives and ensure: The Albert Feuerwerker Memorial Fund: Following the passing of • Increased financial assistance for Professor Emeritus Albert Feuerwerker in April of 2013, his family, friends, our Masters Degree students; and colleagues expressed a desire to establish an endowment fund in • Research funds for our doctoral his memory. This fund is intended to provide student fellowships and students and faculty associates; programming support in Chinese Studies, and will be housed in the U-M China Center. • Development of innovative study abroad opportunities for our Professor Feuerwerker had a long-standing and distinguished association with the China students in China; Center. He was not only instrumental in the establishment of the center in 1961, but also • Sustaining valuable programming became the Center’s first and longest serving director, as well as tireless supporter. We invite that continues to promote the contributions to this endeavor to honor Albert Feuerwerker and his legacy to the field. study of China in all disciplines at We hope that you will contribute generously to our effort to both honor Albert Feuerwerker’s the University of Michigan. legacy and to build the Center’s financial security by sending your gift or pledge today. You may contribute on-line at: giving.umich.edu/giving/ii-feuerwerker, or by returning the form below with your check to our center. Please make out checks to the University of Michigan.

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Front Cover: May 2017 U-M Rogel China Trip: Lake Karakul, Xinjiang Province. Photo courtesy of Tom Baird. Back Cover: Ye Guohua, Untitled, 1623–43, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), folding fan, ink on gold paper. Collection of Stuart Katz (PhD ’71)

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