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the same building will be a great improvement from from improvement be a great the same building will In addition, space for visitors situation. the current - interac will likely promote and study/meeting areas and visitors. students, tions among faculty, continued in particular the cuts at various levels, Department of the in Title IV funds from decrease on. In response, reply Education, which many II centers structure the College decided to implement a new staff IV funds. for II that is sustainable even without Title with one each center is left In the new structure, it is Ena (in the case of CCS, full-time staff person

ast year, two major changes took place at the College and the International and the International place at the College major changes took two ast year, by the initiated First, CCS in various ways. have affected Institute, which a heavily used but from Dennison is being transformed, Office, Provost’s modern, and multicultural building to an exemplar, teaching unattractive including CCS. scheduled to move, all units of II are to which learning center, During the transition, CCS had to make some adjustments. For example, we are For example, we are some adjustments. CCS had to make During the transition, student in the total CCS that, despite a decrease I am especially delighted to report that CCS is committing new funds to establish two I am also delighted to report her Gallagher resumes I am pleased that Professor As we enter a new academic year, The final plan is still in the works. For example, we do not know how much space or what For example, we do not in the works. The final plan is still exciting new opportunities. are have. On the other hand, there kind of space CCS will in and social space events, research classrooms, of offices, For example, the combination Schlorff), and everyone else is moved to ‘shared services’. Under special circumstances, special circumstances, Under services’. Schlorff), and everyone else is moved to ‘shared own money. staff, with the center’s additional to hire a center may request also are We (e.g. noon lectures). certain programs endowment funds on spending more CCS staff position (Jen Zhu). Nevertheless, spending our own funds for a temporary have also managed to maintain We research. committed to supporting faculty remains Seminars, CCS Research series, as CCS noon lecture such and services, most programs and CCS movie series, Workshop, the CCS Inter-disciplinary the CCS Annual Conference, on campus. events co-hosted by CCS and other units work of Many thanks to the hard budget, we have an excellent incoming MA class. and Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee, headed by Associate Director Zheng! Chair Wang Zheng and thanks to Wang between UM and , programs collaborative on humanities will focus One program who did most of the negotiations. Mary Gallagher, but just faculty, expected to benefit not are The programs and one on social sciences. students as well. students and potentially undergraduate also graduate Professor of CCS, after spending her sabbatical year in , and as Director role With an experienced leadership Zheng continues serving as Associate Director. Wang opportunities, new explore transitions, team, CCS can be expected to weather through and our ability to serve faculty, our global reputation, legacy, and continue our strong in Chinese Studies. community interested and the larger students, L Interim Director, 2012-13 Director, S Interim Duanmu , CC San from A message Dear CCS Community, Welcome! 3 2

University of Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2013 — A message from Mary Gallagher, CCS Director

Dear CCS Community,

ast year I spent my time as a visiting scholar at the Koguan School of Law at In Memoriam 4 Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai. I enjoyed my time away, reconnecting with friends and colleagues in Shanghai, and working on my own research projects. I left Shanghai just as the summer heat began and it has been nice to return to Ann Arbor and enjoy cooler and less humid weather. I want to thank LProfessor San Duanmu for ably serving as interim director last year. Faculty News 6 As San wrote in his outgoing message, CCS and other area studies centers face challenges going forward in relation to our reliance on Department of Education National Resource Center grants. CCS will go ahead with the other East Asian centers and reapply for this grant in the next four-year cycle. We Photo Contest 9 currently do not have very much informa- tion about the funding levels or the priorities of the Department of Education. We are cautiously optimistic that funding levels will at least stay the same or even Student News 10 rise slightly. However, we have also made budgetary adjustments in the event that the lower funding levels continue. As Professor Duanmu also pointed out, this affects our staff greatly. Please be cogni- Upcoming Events 14 CCS director Mary Gallagher, her husband Ken Duck and their zant of their increased job burdens this children visit the Li River during her 2012-2013 sabbatical in . year as we make this transition. I would also like to express my sadness that two of our CCS faculty associates left us this year, Rhoads Murphey and . We’ve included tributes to them in this newsletter. Rhoads and Al were integral members of the Post World War II generation of Outreach 15 American scholars of China. Their contributions to Chinese Studies at the are quite extraordinary and we continue to benefit from their legacies. To mark Al’s service to CCS as its founding and longest-serving director, CCS has set up a Memorial Fund in his name and will work this year on establishing an endowment fund as his legacy at CCS. This endowment fund will be used to fund student fellowships and CCS Resources 16 programming. There is additional information about the fund in other parts of this newsletter. The Fall Semester will continue our eventful programming schedule, including the CCS Noon Lecture Series on Tuesdays and our weekend film series. I’d also like to highlight the CCS Annual Conference organized by Professor Xiaobing Tang to be held on October 25-26. The conference theme is Socialist Culture in China Reconsidered, and it is open to Support 19 faculty, students and the public. We will also host a film event at the Michigan Theatre on the evening of Monday, November 18. (More details to follow). I am also happy to announce that we have established two new collaborative programs with Fudan University, Shanghai. This year we will begin to fund collaborative research projects for UM and Fudan faculty. We hope these initiatives will broaden and deepen our academic exchanges with Chinese scholars from a range of disciplines and perspectives. If you are nearby, we hope that you will come to our events and participate in the larger CCS community. If you are reading this from afar, please stay in touch by reading our blog, “liking” us on Facebook, and sending us your feedback and suggestions.

Thank you, Mary Gallagher Inside I was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Rhoads I was deeply saddened to tribute. personal but a more full obituary, This is not a Murphey. in the late of Michigan at the University for Rhoads I TA’d mentor. most congenial and generous 1980s and found him a as for lack of a better description, quite the character, He was, sidewalks of Ann Arbor on and he zoomed along the streets to ready his ancient black bicycle, always smiling and always memory chat. Like Kristen [Stapleton], I also have a favorite I was feeling overwhelmed by the those days. of Rhoads from him, a task of pulling together my dissertation and I asked that pulled man famous for textbooks and other publications so many cultures from ideas together so many disparate how on earth he managed to be narrative, into a coherent my his arm around threw He laughed heartily, so organized. open the door shoulder and escorted me to his office, flung beyond belief and featuring the an interior cluttered to reveal and said, manual typewriter he used for all of his manuscripts, He will be missed. is highly overrated!!” “organization Joyce Madancy Studies of History and East Asian Professor Union College His professional activities outside the University were extensive. were activities outside the University His professional The main focus in his scholarly publications was on the Chinese place for Asian studies among the University’s commitments. commitments. place for Asian studies among the University’s 1984 to 1987 He was chair of the Department of History from committees. important University and served on several of the Association for Asian Among them was the presidency He served on various national committees over 1991-1992. Studies, including the SSRC-ACLS sometimes as chair or co-chair, the years, China, the SSRC Subcommittee Joint Committee on Contemporary the Committee on Scholarly on the Chinese Economy, on Research Republic of China (of the Communication with the People’s National Academy of Sciences), the National Committee on U.S.- and the SSRC Committee on Exchanges with Asian China Relations, major of several He served on the editorial boards Institutions. academic journals. although he economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, He set a base-line into other areas. productively often ventured of the Qing state in modern economic for discussions of the role We offer a touching blog post from one of his former teaching offer a touching blog post from We student in history in Joyce Madancy was a U-M doctoral assistants. and East Asian Studies at of History and is now Professor the 1980s, Union College: residence at a retirement at a retirement residence community in Ann Arbor. They will be missed. Rhoads served during the war with the Friends Ambulance Unit in China, and completed his Ph.D. in Far Eastern History at Harvard and Geography in 1950. He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1964. He published extensively on China, India and Asia, and his book Shanghai: Key Born in 1927, he was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied at Born in 1927, he was raised of Michigan, he was instrumental in the At the University (1953) is considered to be a pioneering work on to be a pioneering to Modern China (1953) is considered including widely urbanism. He continued publishing in retirement, , now in its sixth edition, and East A History of Asia used textbooks, now in its fifth edition. At Michigan, he was Asia: A New History, 1969-1971, Studies from of the Center for Chinese the Director 1973-75, and also served as the Director from Associate Director He has of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. and has served as the been Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies, of the Association and President Vice President Executive Secretary, for Asian Studies. Rhoads Murphey Rhoads mourns the passing of W. The Center for Chinese Studies of History, Emeritus of the U-M Department Murphey III, Professor at their Christmas shortly before and his wife Eleanor A. Murphey In Memoriam Emeriti Faculty of Two the Passing CCS Mourns Albert Feuerwerker at the who enjoyed a long and active career Albert Feuerwerker, of Michigan and who fashioned a distinguished legacy University passed away on April 27, 2013. as a scholar of Chinese history, magnum cum in history, degree earning his A.B. University, Harvard laude, in 1950 and his Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages (1955-1958) of Toronto at the University in 1957. He was a lecturer coming to the (1958-1960) before fellow at Harvard and a research of he spent the remainder of Michigan in 1959, where University emeritus in 1996. He became professor his career. He served as its establishment of the Center for Chinese Studies. He applied 1972 to 1983. and again from 1961-1967, director, first of Michigan one of the to making the University his leadership in the country for Chinese studies and for Asian major centers facilitated the creation grants, He secured broadly. studies more faculty, helped to recruit of new positions in other departments, secure and negotiated a of the Asia Library, supported the growth 5 4

University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2013 — Announcing the Albert Feuerwerker Memorial Fund Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan

ollowing the passing of Albert Feuerwerker in April of 2013, his family, friends, and colleagues expressed a desire Fto establish an endowment fund in his memory in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. This fund is intended to provide student fellowships and programming support in Chinese Studies, and will be housed in the U-M Center for Chinese Studies. Professor Feuerwerker had a long-standing and distinguished association with the China Center. He was not only instrumental in the establishment of the center in 1961, but also became the Center’s first and longest serving director, as well as tireless supporter. We invite contributions to this endeavor to honor Albert Feuerwerker and his legacy to the field. For more information, please see the Donor Page in the back of this newsletter, or feel free to contact the U-M Center for Chinese Studies at:

Center for Chinese Studies Suite 4668 SSWB University of Michigan 1080 South University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 734-764-4189 [email protected] Albert Feuerwerker with , 1973 website: www.ii.umich.edu/ccs On-line Giving: giving.umich.edu/give/ii-feuerwerker

Gifts to endowment funds will be administered as a permanent endowment under Michigan law and then existing University policies.

development with his monograph, China’s Early Industrialization: Sheng Hsuan-huai (1844-1916) and Mandarin Enterprise (Harvard, 1958). His 1970 article, “Handicraft and Manufactured Cotton Textiles in China, 1871-1910,” was immediately the standard for research and argument about economic change in that period. He wrote general treatments of modern Chinese economic history that became the starting point for any further work and staples for graduate training in modern Chinese history. He also published lucid short books on eighteenth-century China, on rebellion in the nineteenth century, and the foreign presence in the early twentieth century. His publications pioneered the introduction to a Western audience of the scholarship of the People’s Republic of China. He edited several important collections of academic work on China, and was a co-editor of one of the volumes of The Cambridge History of China, a series in which his articles appeared more than once. Albert Feuerwerker’s contributions to both his university and his field of scholarship have been enormous. He was a formidable figure in the arenas of his endeavors. Those of us who knew him will also miss him as a friend and colleague. We offer our consolations to his beloved wife, Yi-tsi, and his children, Alison and Paul.

Albert Feuerwerker with sociologist Fei Xiaotong in Beijing, May 1973 eoul (May emple in S , Associate Professor Professor , Associate Pee de Christian a Frederick awarded has been of History, Fellowship for Residential Burkhardt by the Scholars Recently Tenured for Learned Societies. American Council academic the 2013-2014 He will spend Humanities Center year at the National to complete the in North Carolina, am (left) in the Confucian T U-M Professor of Music Joseph L 2013) with Kong Mr. Xianglin, a descendent and representative of the Kong Clan in Qufu, China. research for a book about the emergence of the city into writing for a book about the emergence research of editing— He is also in the process during the eleventh century. associates Joseph Lam, Shuen-fu Lin, and with fellow CCS faculty Hangzhou volume about the city of conference Martin Powers—a to be published under the title “Senses during the Southern Song, of Hangzhou in Southern Song China of the City: Perceptions (1127-1279).” of Music, will take a sabbatical leave in Joseph Lam, Professor entitled Kunqu, to complete a monograph the winter of 2014 he will of Globalized China. In late 2013, the Classical Opera and Sentimental publish an article entitled "Impulsive Scholars Chinese of Traditional Kunqu Discourses Contemporary Heroes: , edited by Rachel Harris, in Gender in Chinese Music Masculinities," 2013). of Rochester Press, (University and Shzr Ee Tan Rowan Pease, of the Confucius as the Director within his role In June-July 2013, of U-M musicologists to led a group he Institute at the University, and Xian). The visit four cities in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, music with Chinese and interacted there, lectures presented group musicological exchanges between faculty and students to promote stimulated by current Additionally, U-M and its Chinese peers. yuewu) (jiKong developments of Confucian ritual music and dance his studies he has resumed Korea, and in Mainland China, Taiwan, entitled on musical Confucianism, and will publish an article in Mine" in Taiwan and "Confucian Ritual Music and Dance, Yours late 2013. , Assistant Professor of , Assistant Professor Benjamin Brose research Chinese Buddhism, conducted as part of this past summer in Japan of that examines the role a project particularly Buddhist material culture, the from relations in China-Japan relics, During the 2013- to the present. 1940’s he will be a Fulbright 14 academic year, Faculty News , Associate Professor of History, recently gave a talk on recently of History, Pär Cassel, Associate Professor in Fujian to law students at Xiamen University extraterritoriality Pär Cassel speaking at China. Photo: Associate Professor Province, Xiamen University Faculty News Staff News accepted the April 2009, since Caudill , CCS administrator Gloria U-M South Cluster in the Manager of the Global position of Unit the China Gloria joined Institute in January 2013. International and was the very 2005 as the office coordinator, Center in July Boat the CCS Dragon and facilitator of competent co-organizer staged by this center. event ever the largest 2007, Festival in Fall and Studies, of Armenian She then became the administrator have in April 2009. We to CCS as center administrator returned on behalf and her endeavors professionalism Gloria’s appreciated in her wish her well will be missed. We and she of our center, new position. fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, in Academia fellow at the Institute of Modern History, on modern he will be continuing research While in Taiwan, Taipei. and beginning mythology, permutations of the monk Xuanzang’s in China during the on Buddhist autobiography a new project Republican period. 7 6

University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2013 — Gender Studies Workshop: At the head of the table (from left) Associate Professor Wang Zheng, Professor David Porter, and Assistant Professor Terri Conley. Photo courtesy of Jen Zhu

Linda Lim, Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, spoke at Ming Xu, Assistant Professor of Sustainable Systems, School a dinner gathering in June organized by Ross School of business of Natural Resources and the Environment, and U-M Assistant MBA alumni in Shanghai. Her topic was “Western vs. Asian Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, taught a course Business: Which is More Competitive?” Besides CCS MA/MBA alum from mid-May to mid-July on ENVIRON 367: Global Enterprise and Ben Simar and Michael Little, who went to both events, the 20-odd Sustainable Development at the Joint Institute at Shanghai Jiao participants at this dinner were mostly her MBA students from the Tong University. PRC, Taiwan, Germany, Philippines and Indonesia, along with three others from the United States. A lot of them also had regional New Faculty Associates responsibilities, and she found she had the most interest in the CCS welcomes the newest member form of questions on her current research on Myanmar (Burma), of our academic community, Emily in which China is a major player. Wilcox, who began her position as Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Marty Powers, Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Culture in the Department of Asian Arts and Culture, had his CCS presentation on “The Cultural Languages and Cultures in September Politics of the Brushstroke,” [CCS Noon Lecture Series, March 19, 2013. She received her PhD in Medical 2013], appear as an article in Art Bulletin this past June. Also in Anthropology from the University of June, he delivered this year’s presentation in the Pan Tianshou California, Berkeley and USCF, in 2011, with a doctoral dissertation Lecture Series, which is sponsored by the in entitled The Dialectics of Virtuosity: Dance in the People’s Republic Hangzhou. The topic of the series was “Art and Equality.” He will of China, 1949-2009. Before joining U-M, she held teaching also continue working on his book project: “Visualizing the Polity: positions at the University of California, Davis, as well as the the English Enlightenment Response to China’s Political Vision.” College of William and Mary, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow This past May and June he taught a one-semester course at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. She has conducted extensive in Hangzhou at Zhejiang University in the Institute of Fine Arts. field research among professional dancers in China, and she The course, Art and History, is taught in Mandarin. publishes regularly in both English and Chinese. Professor Wilcox will be giving a CCS Noon Lecture Series Wang Zheng, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies: In June presentation on Tuesday, Oct. 1st. 2013, CCS faculty associates David Porter, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Wang Zheng, together with Assistant Emeritus Faculty Professor Terri Conley from the Psychology Department, co-taught a one-month long Dissertation Workshop on Gender Studies Ernest P. Young, Professor Emeritus of hosted by the U-M-Fudan Joint Institute for Gender Studies in History, recently had his book Ecclesiastical Shanghai. Thirty-six young faculty members and Ph.D. students Colony: China’s Catholic Church and the from universities in China and abroad participated in the workshop French Religious Protectorate published by to learn feminist theories and methodologies in diverse disciplines. Oxford University Press. The first complete While at Fudan University, Wang Zheng, David Porter, and Jen Zhu, history of the French Religious Protectorate U-M China Initiatives Coordinator, also met with the leading body in China, the book contains new material of the International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization at on Catholic dissent from the policies of the Fudan to discuss future collaborations between the CCS and ICSCC. mission establishment, including little- heard Chinese Catholic voices. Qinghai associate Qinghai CCS faculty Former science/ Chen (Ph.D. in instructional Brigham Young language acquisition, the Department from retired University) earlier and Cultures of Asian Languages at his 18-year service During this year. Qinghai of Michigan, the University the Chinese Language Program directed ransitions Faculty T Faculty for 10 years and laid the foundation of the present Chinese Chinese foundation of the present and laid the years for 10 Chinese: “Advanced has co-authored language curriculum. He and Communication” 《高级汉语：意图、 Intention, Strategy, Routledge 2005) and “The Press, University 技巧与表达》 (Yale in Business Chinese” 《求实商务汉语》 (Routledge, Textbook research a significant number of published and presented 2012), the board in Chinese language instruction, and served on papers the board (CLTA), Association Teachers of U.S. Chinese Language of Chinese Language Studies (IUP), Program of Inter-University of International Business Chinese and the Advisory Committee of of Development Education and Resources a number of Finance and Economics (SUFE). He has also chaired Chinese national academic events including the four Business of Michigan and hosted by the University sponsored Workshops Lifetime Walton of CLTA’s since 2003. He is the recipient honor of the U.S. Chinese the highest Achievement Award, in 2013. teaching profession, passed away Emeritus of History, Albert Feuerwerker, Professor of the U-M One of the founders in Ann Arbor. on April 27, 2013 Al was a Center for Chinese Studies and longest serving director, He will be at this university. supporter of Chinese Studies tireless this newsletter. missed. Please see tribute for him on pages 4-5 of that Rhoads Murphey, Professor to report also saddened are We at his home 2012 passed away in December Emeritus of History, who He and his wife Eleanor, at Glacier Hills in Ann Arbor. will be deeply missed by passed away just days prior to Rhoads, page 4 of this Please see tribute for Rhoads on our community. newsletter. in left his position as Head of the U-M Asia Library Jidong Yang His invaluable University. new position at Stanford for a April 2013 expertise on the extensive East Asian collection of the U-M Asia will be missed, and we wish him well as he begins his new Library Coast. life on the West

, Associate Yen CCS also welcomes Louis Scientist in the School of Research of and Associate Director Kinesiology, the Confucius Institute at U-M. His include of research primarily areas worksite health; population health management; health risks; health care Over the course costs; and productivity. CCS welcomes Chuanwu Xi, Associate Health of Environmental Professor focuses on water His research Sciences. health. An and public biofilms, quality, ongoing the of his compares project quality of drinking water in China with and U.S., particularly with those in Peru impact on the occurrence to their regard , Associate Professor of Xuefei Ren, Associate Professor Studies at Sociology and Global Urban the received Michigan State University, the Political from Best Book Award System Section, Economy of the World Mention of the Park and Honorable of the Community and Book Award of the Urban Sociology Section for American Sociological Association, (2011, her book Building Globalization Her second of Chicago Press). University , Harry Jones Associate Professor of CCS welcomes Feng Li, Harry Jones Associate Professor primarily research Li’s Professor Accounting, Ross School of Business. disclosure and corporate is in financial statement analysis area on Chinese media and He has been conducting research behavior. quality and firm valuation. on Chinese public firm disclosure New Center Associates Center Associates Center the Emerita of and Professor Associate J. Laing, CCS Center Ellen article this year published an of Oregon, University History of Art, , in Nianhua yanjiu Prints,” Models in Chinese Popular entitled “Role In Chinese. pp. 70-89. Fall 2012, he is launching a program on global environmentalhe is launching a program health at the School of Public Health. has been the Yen of Michigan, Dr. at the University of his career behind many initiatives to connect U-M with higher driving force to provide education institutions in China. He has worked tirelessly exchange through to Chinese culture U-M students exposure He was and performance tours. faculty lectures visits, programs, instrumental in assuring that the Confucius Institute at U-M would it has be devoted to the arts and performing arts and as a result, than 400 Confucius Institutes become unique among the more the world. located in nations around of gastric diseases. He is currently an advisor to the Tianjin Centers an advisor to the Tianjin Centers He is currently of gastric diseases. health issues on environmental and Prevention for Diseases Control has often offered in Tianjin, China. At the School of Public Health, he health issues in China. Currently on environmental guest lectures has just been published from Polity Press Press Polity from book Urban China has just been published Ren will be Professor In 2013-2014 2013. (Cambridge, UK) in March and institutions in India, China, on leave and visiting at universities on urban and writing of her next project and the US for research governance and citizen rights in India and China. 9 8

University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2013 — Fall 2013 CCS Photo Contest Exhibit The Zodiac Dragon Photo Contest Auguring a Year of Individuality and Abundance

he spirit of the zodiac year was captured by U-M students, faculty and Photos, clockwise from upper left: friends of Chinese Studies in the annual Chinese photo contest, now Tatjana Aleksic, “Dragon's Backbone in its 8th year. In a world that identifies the most powerful of zodiac Rice Terraces, Dazhai Village, Guanxi" animals with positive change, there was a range of interpretations Photo by Jin Li T Photo by Rosie Levine visually and metaphorically. The images can be viewed on line at the Center’s website and seen on site at the International Institute lobby from Sept 15-Oct15 Peter Lloyd, "Pingyao" in the School for Social Work Building. The new contest theme will be announced later in September 2013—stay tuned, and check the CCS website and Facebook page for further details. - step rica Mat iu, E lyssa Ceretti, and Chloe E ampe, A uzanna Brown, Joanna L A ‘13),S S Graduation May 2013: From left to right (above): Yuanyuan L CC Graduates “The Treasured Thesis Project: , CCS MA 2013; Suzanna Brown of Mo Yan a translation Sword”, (Asian Languages and Xiaobing Tang Professor Faculty Readers: David Associate Professor, Literature), Literature/Comparative Rolston (Asian Languages and Literature). Between “Differences Thesis Project: , CCS MA 2013; Ceretti Alyssa of Events;” Local (Guangdong) and National Newspaper Reporting Mary Gallagher (Political Associate Professor Faculty Readers: Cassel (History). Par Science), Associate Professor Hate “Why We Thesis Project: , CCS MA 2013; Chloe Estep (Asian Xiaobing Tang Professor Faculty Readers: Translation;” Associate Literature), Languages and Literature/Comparative Chloe Languages and Literature). David Rolston (Asian Professor, and translation in literature program with be starting a doctoral at Columbia University. “Forgoing Thesis Project: , CCS MA 2013; Courtney Henderson Mary Gallagher Associate Professor the Gaokao;” Faculty Readers: (History). de Pee Christian Science), Associate Professor (Political of “Hierarchies Thesis Project: Joanna Lampe, JD/CCS MA 2013; Mens Rea Standards Through of Social Order Guilt: Enforcement Mary Gallagher Associate Professor in Qing Law;” Faculty Readers: Nicholas Howson (Law). Professor Science), (Political Dissertation: Science, Winter 2013: , Ph.D. in Political Huong Trieu Medical Migrant State: A Case Study of Rural “Building a Welfare Mary Gallagher in Urban China.” CCS faculty associates, Insurance Lieberthal, served on her committee. and Ken Thesis Project: Liu, Applied Economics/CCS MA 2013; Yuanyuan “School Choice and the Relative Importance of Family Background in Achievement Determination in Urban and School Characteristics Xie Yu Professor China: The Case of Shanghai;” Faculty Readers: Yuanyuan Lydia Li (Social Work). (Sociology), Associate Professor doctoral in the fall to pursue will be attending Colgate University studies in sociology. son (JD/M rieu (fourth cience doctoral student Huong T S Graduation May 2013: Political S Student News Student News Damjan DeNoble and Jacob to CCS MA students Congratulations Student Research Rackham Graduate Dingman who both received Grants. Studies (FLAS) fellowships available Language and Area Foreign jointly with funds and administered grant federal through for the Center for Japanese Studies and the Nam Center to for summer study of Chinese awarded were Studies, Korean Na, and CCS Young and Won Fitzgerald Lauren undergraduates Hoath, Bradley MA students Jacob Dingman (study of Tibetan), Diehl. and Nora study abroad Fellowship which provides Taylor The Katherine was awarded opportunities for language study and research to Qing Lai to further his dissertation on Chinese adult higher and policy archives, Chinese publications, education through census and survey data available in Beijing. American Fellowships which allow academic support for Peking students to doctoral awarded Chinese Studies were traditional (Anthropology) Ho-chak Law (Musicology); Adrienne Lagman Dimmery (Asian Languages and Cultures). and Katherine CC from left) with her husband and family celebrate her graduation.

University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2013 — 11 10 Incoming CCS MA Students Alumni News Ryan Etzcorn is a Michigan native and graduated from Michigan Victoria Chonn Ching (CCS MA 2009) State University in history and psychology. He is drawn to border is currently Assistant to the Director regions and migrations and has studied the transmission of of the new Peru-China Center at western Christianity in China, and politics in early 20th-century Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru. Manchuria. His own travels have taken him on the roads of America This is the first center focused on China and Europe as a musician with Frontier Ruckus. Ryan would in the country. She’s also a research eventually like to purse a government career in trade and policy. assistant at the Research Center (CIUP) of the same university and is working Jing Fan is from Sichuan province and graduated from Sichuan on research projects that analyze the impact and influence of University in human resources development—she also received a China in Latin America, with special attention to Peru. master’s degree from the Communication University of China in Beijing. Jing has worked at CCTV as a full-time reporter and studied Wm. Patrick Cranley (CCS MA/MBA culture in advertising. At Michigan, she would like to further her 1989) is off to a new adventure in interests in exploring China’s evolving film industry. the world of cross-border investment advisory with InterChina Consulting, Dorothy Heebner graduated from University of Michigan in based in Shanghai. As Director, North economics and is pursuing a joint degree in law and Chinese America, he will focus on developing studies. She would eventually like to work in China-related InterChina’s business strategy and research, diplomacy or business and is particularly interested in M&A advisory practices with clients economic and political relations between China and Taiwan. headquartered in the United States and Canada. InterChina advises Fortune 1000 multinationals on expanding their China businesses Brett Hine graduated from Bates College in music and Chinese and on acquisitions, divestitures, strategic partnerships and joint language and literature. He has taught English in Hebei province venture transactions. and would like to nurture a growing interest in education and public policy to benefit rural communities of China. M. Dujon Johnson (CCS MA 2007) completed his doctorate from the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan in January 2012. Samantha Hurt hails from Florida and graduated from Rhodes Not only does he have the distinction of being the first African- College in anthropology and sociology. Samantha has lived and American to receive a Ph.D. from this university, but he has been worked in Inner Mongolia and is interested in Chinese literature informed by the both the Taiwan and PRC ministries of education as well as a range of humanistic studies from linguistics to the that he has the distinction of being the only African-American to music traditions of China. receive a Ph.D. from the Chinas. We extend our congratulations to Xinwan (Cassandra) Liu attended Fudan University and received M. Dujon for having achieved this historic milestone. her undergraduate degree in international relations. Cassandra would like to study Chinese labor politics and labor migration. Ya-Wen Lei (Sociology Ph.D. 2013) defended her dissertation titled “Uncovering the Roots of the Nation-wide Counterpublic Sphere David Lundquist graduated from American University in in China” in August 2013. She then joined the Harvard Society philosophy and received a master’s degree in philosophy from of Fellows as a Junior Fellow for a three year appointment. One University of St Andrews (UK). He has lived and taught in Beijing of the most prestigious post-doctoral fellowships in the country, and Henan province while writing on Chinese politics for various the Harvard Society of Fellows admits approximately ten junior journals including The Atlantic. David’s interests are multi-faceted fellows a year from across the disciplines and Lei is only the and interdisciplinary focusing on comparative research in history 16th sociologist admitted since the program’s inception in 1933. and social sciences, ethnic nationalities, law and political reform. During the tenure of her fellowship, she will work on a book project explaining the emergence and growth of the public sphere in China. Riley Roche is originally from California and graduated from Kenyon College in international relations and Asian studies. She Michael J. Little (CCS MA/MBA 1994) has worked for several years in Beijing and channels her academic is currently working in China with interest in the political interface between China and India. Riley Ford Motor Company servicing regional would like to study legal boundaries, refugees’ status, and inter- parts purchasing. Based in Shanghai, state trade particularly on the Himalayan border region of China. Mike covers all of China and travels extensively from Japan through Michael Thompson, an Ann Arbor native, graduated from Juniata Southeast Asia and India, and has College in international relations and wants to build an in-depth become a regional specialist. understanding of China in language, history and culture. Michael has just completed a Fulbright ETA (English Teaching Assistantship) in Kinmen, Taiwan and would like to eventually pursue a career in the government sector.

Linda Zhang graduated from Duke University in biology and Chinese studies and has been working in Beijing as an educational consultant and tutor. 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University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2013 — 13 12 Damien Ma (CCS MA ‘06) returned to the U-M China Center this April to give a presentation at the CCS Interdisciplinary Workshop event “Reflections on China Studies: A Special Discussion on Academic and Professional Development.” Damien is currently a Fellow at The Paulson Institute, focused on investment and policy programs and the Institute’s research and think tank activities. He is the co-author of the forthcoming book, In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China’s Ascent in the Next Decade (FT Press, September 8, 2013). Previously, Damien was a lead China analyst at Eurasia Group, the political risk research and advisory firm. He specialized in analyzing the intersection between Chinese policies and markets, with a particular focus on energy and commodities, Leslie Stone, her husband Michael Sloan and their three children in industrial policy, elite politics, US-China relations, and social policies. His advisory and analytical work served a range of clients Kenneth M. Swope (Ph.D. in History, from institutional investors and multinational corporations to the 2001) has had his newest book, The US government. Prior to joining Eurasia Group, he was a manager Military Collapse of China’s Ming of publications at the US-China Business Council in Washington, Dynasty, 1618-44, published by DC. He also worked in a public relations firm in Beijing, where he Routledge. The book examines the served clients ranging from Ford to Microsoft. military collapse of China’s Ming In addition, Damien writes regularly for the Atlantic Monthly Dynasty and attributes it to a online and publishes widely, including in Foreign Affairs, The New combination of foreign and domestic Republic, and Foreign Policy, among others. He has also appeared foes. Ken is Professor of History and in a range of broadcast media such as the Charlie Rose Show, Fellow of the Center for the Study of Bloomberg, NPR, and CNBC. He also served as an adjunct instructor War and Society at the University of at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Damien is a term member of the Council on Southern Mississippi. He specializes in the military, political and Foreign Relations. social history of Ming China and he also conducts research in comparative early modern military history, and in East Asian Benjamin Ridgway (ALC Ph.D. 2005) began his new position international relations. His books include Warfare in China Since as a Visiting Lecturer of Chinese Studies in the Department of 1600 (2005); and A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail: Ming East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1600 (2009). Champaign-Urbana in August 2013. He previously held a teaching We congratulate Ken on his newest publication! position at Valparaiso University. Kristin King Sznajder (Ph.D. in Public Health, May 2013) defended Ben Simar (CCS MA/MBA 2004) has her dissertation on December 7, 2012. Kristin’s dissertation become Director of Security – Asia Pacific research examined the reproductive health of women factory at Johnson Controls. Though based in workers in China’s foreign invested factories. Her research China, Ben covers all of Asia in his position. identified associations between occupational stress and women’s He travels extensively from Japan reproductive health including symptoms of pelvic pain and throughout Southeast Asia and India, and urogenital infection, as well as assessed the relationship between has also become a regional specialist. foreign direct investment and infant mortality rates.

Leslie Stone (CCS MA 1994) was in Hong Kong representing the Yale-China Association as Director for Hong Kong and Director of Education during 2012-13. She worked with an incredible staff who are based in New Haven, CT and Changsha, PRC and ran a host of educational exchange programs including the Yale-China Fellowship that brings Yale graduates to China for two years. Her husband, illustrator Michael Sloan, had been drawing a great deal while in Asia, and much of his Hong Kong work can be found at: www.michaelsloan.net. She and her family loved Hong Kong and felt bittersweet about returning to New Haven, CT on July 1st. Leslie will continue in the position of Director for Hong Kong while living in the States and commuting from New Haven, and they may return to live in Hong Kong again in 2014. Participants from across the US, China, Canada, Germany as well across from Participants of website, housed under “Events & Programs” A conference , January 1960 Special Presentations in China Culture Socialist CCS Annual Conference: October 25-26, 2013 Reconsidered, Room, the U-M Alumni Center; 200 Fletcher Location: Founders MI; 8:30am to 5:00pm on October 25-26. Free Road, Ann Arbor, and open to the public. The second event since the inception of the CCS Annual a will provide this international conference in 2012, Conference to examine multiple dimensions of socialist platform for scholars in twentieth-century China. It is organized production cultural in Modern Chinese Stern Professor Helmut F. by Xiaobing Tang, Studies and a faculty associate of CCS. on many topics research their current as New Zealand will present and visual film to dance to literature from ranging and objects, practices, theories, They will look into the various institutions, arts. production and global connections that sustained cultural models, extended than the a time period far more of the socialist era, Revolution. The goal is to gain a better decade of the Cultural of not only a highly complex and experimental understanding shaping but also the competing forces period of history, Chinese society and culture. contemporary the CCS website, will be launched in September. eptember 1957 , S ,

bove: Cartoons, No. 129, January 23, 1959. Cover art by Zhang Guangyu ower left: CoverLiterature of World L A Upper left: Cover of Radio . The flyer for the , Oct. 25-26, 2013 nnual Conference: Socialist S A Culture in China Reconsidered Graphics from CC Upcoming Events Upcoming Events go please by this center, information on events organized For more or contact the center at chinese.studies@ to: www.ii.umich.edu/ccs umich.edu or by phone at: 734-764-6308 Series continues to be held on CCS Noon Lecture The Fall 2013 Building, at 12 noon in Room 1636 School of Social Work Tuesdays will be with coffee and tea Light refreshments S. University. 1080 to get a good seat. The Fall available. Come a little early to be sure begin on September 24th, and a total of nine schedule will 2013 in the fall series: Lydia Li (Sept. 24); will be featured presentations Emily Wilcox (Oct. 1); Tze-Lan Sang (Oct. 8); Nicholas Tackett 5); Nicholas Copp (Nov. (Oct. 29); Paul Wang (Oct. 22); Yuan-Kang 12); Yi Sicheng, Cong Feng, and Mao Chengyu (Nov. Howson 19); and Matthew Mosca (Dec. 3). A complete listing of all (Nov. the Center for Chinese Studies titles and synopses is available from and on the CCS website at: www.ii.umich.edu/ccs Series will be available in early September. Noon Lecture Fall 2013

University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2013 — 15 14 The Fall 2013 CCS Film Event at the Michigan Theater: Join us on Monday evening, November 18th for a reception and screening at the historic Michigan Theater of a Chinese independent film curated by the director of the Yunfest Independent Film Festival in Yunnan Province, Yi Sicheng. Film directors Cong Feng and Mao Chenyu will join him that evening. The next day, the three will engage in interviews on the current state of independent filmmaking in China. The talk will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 19th in the CCS Noon Lecture Series. Both the film event and the Noon Lecture are free and open to the public. Through the assistance of Professor Abé Mark Nornes (Asian Languages and Cultures and Chair of Screen Arts and Cultures) CCS was able to organize this event, which includes four more films that will be shown in the CCS Film Series. Those screenings will take place on occasional Saturday evenings in Auditorium A of Angell Hall during East Asian Immersion Workshop, March 16, 2013 November and early December. More information on this series and “Shifting Meanings: Translation in Children’s and the presentation will be available at the beginning of Fall Term. Young Adult Literature” As part of the LSA theme semester on Translation, the East Asia Other Events on and off Campus Centers and U-M Libraries co-sponsored an educator workshop CSEAS Lecture Series: Damn the Spratlys, Full Speed Ahead: exploring the many ways to translate a literary text from one Southeast Asia in a Multinodal World, a talk by Brantly Womack, language into another. This event was a day long immersion Professor of Foreign Affairs University of Virginia. Friday, September focusing on Chinese-, Japanese- and Korean-themed books and 20, 2013 at 12 noon in Room 1220 Ford School of Public Policy. media and attended by over 20 southern Michigan teachers. U-M For more information, contact: www.ii.umich.edu/cseas Professor Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen (Asian Languages and Cultures) gave the keynote lecture, “Perspectives on Translation,” The Confucius Institute at U-M Presents: Drawing Boundaries: followed by interactive translation practices, lesson plans and How National History-writing in China, Japan and Korea teaching methodologies. Participants also toured the library’s influences Contemporary Interstate Relations, a talk by Evelyn special collections and resources for educators at the U-M Hatcher Rawski, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh. Friday, Library with media specialists Peggy Daub and Jo Angela Oerhli, September 20, 2013 at 4:00pm in the Pendleton Room, the Michigan and East Asian librarian Mari Suzuki. Union. For more information, contact: www.confucius.umich.edu/

CSEAS Lecture Series: Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the World History Initiative Workshop (WHI), Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979, a talk by Andrew Mertha, Professor August 20-22, 2012 The WHI workshops are innovative projects and partnerships of Government, Cornell University. Friday, September 27, 2013 among area-study centers at the International Institute and at 12 noon; Room D, Floor 3 of the Michigan League. For more the School of Education. Each workshop combines pedagogical information, contact: www.ii.umich.edu/cseas. approaches and content presentations for educators teaching The Freer House Presents: A Thousand Graces: Freer’s World History and Geography according to Michigan Department Pilgrimage to the Buddhist Cave Temples at Longmen and his of Education’s Social Studies Framework. Historical periods of Collection of Chinese Art, a talk by David Hogge and Daisy Yiyou time are highlighted to help students investigate global patterns Wang Ph.D., Smithsonian Institution. Sunday, October 20, 2013, and cross-cultural comparisons. During summer 2012, CCS 2pm in the Marvin and Betty Danto Lecture Hall of the Detroit faculty associate, Associate Professor Robert Adams (architecture Institute of Arts. A reception and tours will be held at the historic and urban planning), lectured on comparative urbanization for Charles Lang Freer House from 3:30pm-5pm following the 2pm the WHI workshop, “Images of an Accelerated Century,” Era 8 lecture at the DIA. The reception includes an exhibit on “Freer and (1950-present). There were 19 participants representing 14 school China” and a performance on the Erhu (Chinese two string violin) districts. by master musician, Xiao Dong Wei. Cost is $10 per person and $5 for students, pay at the door. The Freer House is located at 71 E. Ferry Street, one block from the Detroit Institute of Arts. For more information, call the Freer House at 313-664-2500.

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Site-wide update and changes in 2012-13 encompassed Site-wide update and changes in 2012-13 end, the user and learning experience has been On the front The China Data Center is pleased to release a series of GIS a series of pleased to release The China Data Center is The CDC will host the following visiting New CDC Visitors: , Sally Michelson Davison Professor of Chinese , Sally Michelson Davison Professor by Martin Powers Arts and Culture of case- ), a web resource http://chinamirror.net/ China Mirror( of under the direction based studies on facets of Chinese culture (Art History), has Martin Powers CCS faculty associate, Professor user to make the site even more revisions far-reaching undergone and casual viewers. parents, teachers, friendly to students, as edits, technical, functional, and aesthetic aspects as well and other content. graphics updates and addition of text, images, content management system in use now is one The new Wordpress well-supported and easily customizable versatile, that is robust, of the site. 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University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2013 — 17 16 Clavis Sinica Confucius Institute at U-M by David Porter, Professor of English and Comparative Literature by Jiyoung Lee, Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications Students of the Chinese language face unique challenges in The Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan (CIUM) attaining even a modest degree of literacy owing to the notorious will continue to present a variety of exciting events to promote difficulty of mastering Chinese characters. Instructional technology Chinese arts and culture this fall 2013. Most exciting is CIUM’s very holds considerable promise for helping students to meet these first time fashion event that will be held at the Michigan Union, challenges and to develop their featuring XU Rui (徐蕊) from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in reading and writing skills in a China from September 26-29, 2013. Entitled “To See the Invisible,” more efficient and systematic this four-day fashion event consists of an exhibition, a fashion way. Over the past two years, U-M show, and a lecture. XU Rui worked with JIANG Kinor, a textile faculty have been developing designer and professor from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and classroom testing two innovative software tools targeted at the to create this fantastic contemporary collection. Another highlight specific literacy hurdles of first- and third-year students of Chinese. of this fall semester is the photo exhibition entitled, “Kunlun The principal literacy bottleneck for beginning students is, of — Wild Life Photography Exhibition.” About a hundred photos course, learning how to write the several hundred Chinese characters will be displayed at the Michigan Union and Palmer Commons required in the first-year course sequence. Students are instructed showcasing the beauty of Kunlun Mountain in China. CIUM is also in basic character formation principles in a first-year class, but it very honored to host a distinguished speaker’s lecture by Professor is difficult for an instructor to provide more than limited feedback from the University of Pittsburgh on September 20, on their progress in learning to write them correctly. To address 2013. She will discuss territorial disputes between China, Japan, this problem, Chinese language instructors have been working and Korea in recent years, entitled “Drawing Boundaries: How with CCS faculty associate David Porter to develop a customized National History-writing in China, Japan, and Korea Influences smartphone app that uses stroke animation to show the student Contemporary Interstate Relations.” CIUM events are free and how each character in a particular lesson is written, and then allows open to the public. the student to practice writing it him/herself directly on the phone’s touch screen. The app provides immediate audio and visual feedback on each stroke drawn by the user, so that the student learns to write the character correctly each time. This fall, a new feature will be added to allow each student’s device to communicate to the course instructor usage information such as a character practice log and test results, which will help to reduce the character homework grading burden for instructors of the first-year course. The primary literacy challenge faced by third-year students is in the development of reading fluency. The Chinese 301-302 sequence at Michigan requires students to learn large quantities of new vocabulary items in the context of increasingly lengthy and complex reading texts. In the experience of current and recent instructors of these courses, the students prove quite capable at learning the new sentence patterns introduced in each lesson and memorizing the characters tested on the weekly vocabulary A dress (silver/polyes- quizzes. They tend to perform less well, however, at actually ter, 2012) from Xu Rui’s reading the assigned texts, regularly stumbling over both new and fashion exhibition “To See the Invisible”, September previously learned words, and showing considerable difficulty in 26-29, 2013.] piecing together the meaning of sentences and paragraphs. To help students increase their fluency in reading, the faculty team has developed a web-based audio-text reader that links individual portions of an assigned text to corresponding audio recordings. With the click of a mouse, students can hear a word or sentence pronounced in a natural voice as many times as necessary to be able to reproduce it correctly themselves. When they encounter a Chinese character or word they haven’t yet learned or have forgotten, another click displays its pronunciation and English definition, helping them to piece together the meaning of the phrase or sentence they are working on. By giving students a way to connect the characters in the texts with both their sounds and meanings, from word to word and from sentence to sentence, this software tool enables them to learn to read assigned texts with greater fluency and comprehension. Both of these learning tools are adaptations of software initially developed by Professor Porter’s company, Clavis Sinica (www.clavisinica.com). Early stages of the project were funded in part by a grant from CCS. The customization of these tools for UM course use has been funded, in part, by a grant from UM’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. All of these resources are made available at no cost to UM students. of East Asian Paintings at of East Asian Paintings Museum of the Metropolitan Since 1996, Art in New York. has run the operation Kewei Jacobs Robert B. of UMMA’s Asian Art Conservation she cared where Laboratory, not only conserved works collection, UMMA’s from other but also works from institutions and private ang This fall, the Shirley Chang Gallery of Chinese Art is presenting Gallery of Chinese Art is presenting This fall, the Shirley Chang to we bid a fond farewell Last but not least, this summer Conservator Kewei W Conservator Kewei , Associate Curator of Asian Art of Asian Curator , Associate Oyobe by Natsu Isamu by American sculptor of drawings exhibition large The first mentor Qi Baishi by Noguchi’s and paintings Noguchi (1904–1988) 1930 and Qi Baishi: Beijing, attracted Isamu Noguchi (1889–1985), exhibition is now on view The the summer. audience during a large and 2014, until January 26, Museum in New York at the Noguchi February Seattle from the Frye Art Museum in to will later travel collection UMMA’s The exhibition highlights 22 to May 25, 2014. of donated by University which were of Noguchi and Qi works, Noguchi who introduced Katsuizumi, Michigan alumnus Sotokichi Qi in Beijing. to influential ink painter vast collection UMMA’s paintings from a selection of Qing Dynasty by Professor gifted portraits ancestral remarkable as well. 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University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2013 — 19 18 CCS Needs Your Help

ince 1961, CCS has built country-specific endowments to support faculty and student We ask for your support for the Center research and travel, visiting lecturers, and most recently an innovative interdisciplinary for Chinese Studies endowments. Your Sseminar in Chinese Studies. We endeavor to strengthen our central academic and intellectual gifts will serve as an essential component mission to train students by seeking to increase the number of fellowships available to both our M.A. in accomplishing our center objectives and Ph.D. students. As always, your invaluable support makes these programs possible. and ensure:

Announcing the Albert Feuerwerker Memorial Fund: Following the • Increased financial assistance for our passing of Professor Emeritus Albert Feuerwerker in April of 2013, his family, Masters Degree students; friends, and colleagues expressed a desire to establish an endowment fund • Research funds for our doctoral in 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 • Development of innovative study Center for Chinese Studies. abroad opportunities for our students in China; Professor Feuerwerker had a long-standing and distinguished association with the China Center. • Sustaining valuable programming He was not only instrumental in the establishment of the center in 1961, but also became the that continues to promote the study Center’s first and longest serving director, as well as tireless supporter. We invite contributions to of China in all disciplines at the this endeavor to honor Albert Feuerwerker and his legacy to the field. University of Michigan. We hope that you will contribute generously to our effort to both honor Albert Feuerwerker’s 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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Cover: “The Model Performances Come to the Fishing Village,” woodcut by Lin Ju, People’s Daily, 11 June 1973. CCS Annual Conference: Socialist Culture in China Reconsidered, Oct. 25-26, 2013.

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Below: Melissa Ma, “Lanterns.” Submitted for the 2012-13 CCS Photo Contest.