Fall 2018 Newsletter eiser e are delighted to announce that e are Professor Martin Powers, Sally Michelson Martin Powers, Professor of Chinese Arts and Davidson Professor at the end of will be retiring Cultures, to honor his A conference Fall 2018. will be long and distinguished career held on campus in November 2018. information is available under More Events in this newsletter. Sunday, October 7, 2018 October Sunday, Xu Bing W artist Xu Bing internationally renowned will come to campus to give several on Oct. 7th, including presentations Eyes . his newest film Dragonfly screening See the Events section of this newsletter information. for more 2018 November 9-10, inAn International Conference Martin J. Powers Honor of Professor ecture Series to noon. uesday Noon Lecture e will be searching this year for the third this year for the third e will be searching tudies staff welcomes for Chinese Studies staff Rogel Center he Lieberthal- summer! Everywhere a hot and dusty to campus after you back under construction. in Ann Arbor seems to be you look (or drive) W e begin a busy year this fall. Enjoying our second year at lizabeth Berger, Lei Duan, Jeff Javed, Elizabeth Berger, fellows, Our postdoctoral W e hope this revision allows for more students and faculty to attend. students and faculty allows for more e hope this revision ebull, return for their second year. (The fellowship is now for their second year. and Anne Rebull, return a two-year fellowship.) W he list of speakers is included in this newsletter. The list of speakers class of fellows! W Hall, we have returned our T Hall, we have returned New buildings around campus and the city are changing the way the and the city are campus New buildings around with now crowded venues are A South and East University city looks. is closed and student housing. The Michigan Union luxury townhouses of dug up in front hole a large There’s for a massive restoration. the be finished before that must repairs UMMA for some necessary weather turns frigid. T China’s Adaptive Governance: A panel discussion in honor of the late (1938-2001) Michel Oksenberg Professor Sept. 14th from will be held on Friday, The 4pm-6pm followed by a reception. event will be held in the Forum Hall on Palmer Commons on the 4th floor of campus. central During this academic year, we have several major events. major events. we have several During this academic year, and open to the public: free All are 14, 2018 September Friday, Past Success and Future Challenges Welcome! Mary Gallagher LRCCS Director 3 2

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — LRCCS also added three new faculty associates this year. They are Faculty & Staff News 10 Thomas Kelly, Michigan Society of Fellows and U-M Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and Hitomi Tonomura, Professor of History. We are delighted to welcome these new members Student & Alumni News 20 to our community. LRCCS also has a new staff member, Debing Su, who will be working with us and U-M News Service, to promote LRCCS news in both English and Chinese media and social media. Debing is your go-to person on Events 24 any question related to Chinese social media, from viral cat videos to the latest in censored content! I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our dedicated staff, our Outreach 29 enthusiastic alumni and donors, and our engaged community of students and faculty. We look forward to this year’s many opportunities to learn, to discuss, and to deepen our understandings of China and its place in this fast-changing world. Resources 31

February 2019 April 6, 2019 Contemporary Chinese Art Contemporary Chinese Exhibition Art Symposium A new exciting photographic work by Stern Auditorium U-M Museum of Art. artist Wang Qingsong, Bloodstained Shirt, This symposium will highlight four will be on display from February 2-May 26, decades of the American art world’s 2019 in the Irving Stenn Jr. Family Gallery active engagement with Chinese artists, of the U-M Museum of Art. scholars and critics. March 2019 LRCCS Distinguished Visitor Stan Lai Playwright and Director Lauded as one of the most celebrated Chinese-language playwrights and directors in the world, Stan Lai will be coming to the University of Michigan as a LRCCS Distinguished Visitor in March 2019. While on campus, he will be giving workshops and lectures to students and faculty, and the broader community. More information will be available from the Inside LRCCS website in Winter Term 2019. ang. America ang to help hat’s guidance. That’s ang’s ingapore, this aiwan, and Singapore, ashington. Mike also asks W However, there are also conversations that engage also conversations are there However, he exchange of several letters back and forth begins back and letters The exchange of several ome of the letters are mundane, dealing with are ome of the letters students to begin for one of Mike’s arrangements ang was developing his philosophy of neo-authoritar- ang was developing fieldwork in China under W Susan Whiting, who went on to become a leading China scholar in her own right. She now teaches at the of W University arrange a research assistant for his trip to Shandong in a research arrange 1990. He worries about not being able to understand the local Zouping dialect. of China especially the future weighty matters, in more S ach letter from Oksenberg is marked MO/es. So now is marked MO/es. Oksenberg Each letter from to a we can all claim that Ena has written letters Standing Committee! member of the Politburo tates based on his travels. “ about the United States based on his travels. and social critique of America” was a political vs. its political system. At this time, American society and W ideas at the time the fashionable ianism, which rejected China must was inevitable and that that democracy to become adopt both political and economic reforms the from and wealthy nation. Borrowing a strong experiences of other East Asian states at the time, T including South Korea, incredibly of thought was to become conservative strain 1990s and its in the leadership important to the CCP’s of the 1989 ability to survive not only the challenge of the Soviet student movement, but also the collapse the globe. of socialism across Union and the failure also a There’s in January 1989 and ends in mid-1991. now and link between the China Center nice personal then Coordinator, then. Ena Schlorff, LRCCS Program typed up secretary, personal serving as Oksenberg’s back to W handwritten notes for the letters Mike’s ang has now reached the pinnacle of the ang has now reached ang ang Huning, a rising star ang Huning, a rising ang made a brief trip to Ann Arbor ang is now a member of the ang had initiated contact with Oksen-

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University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — Right: Wang Huning, a member of the Political Bureau Central Committee, stands as he is introduced as a new member of the Communist Party of China's Politburo Standing Committee, in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on October 25, 2017. Photo: WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images) Below: Letter written in 1989 to Wang by U-M professor Michel Oksenberg in the wake of the student movement and its suppression. historically unprecedented, and the transition is bound Between Wang and Oksenberg, there is a shared to involve setbacks and turmoil.’ The key problem is to understanding of China’s predicament and attempts on study how to reduce turmoil into a accessible degree in both sides to mitigate the deterioration of US-China order to avoid troubles that would stop the transition. Relations after the bloody crackdown, which was This is a too big topic, but also a interesting one. I want widely broadcast in the US media as foreign journalists to study it.” were already assembled in Beijing to cover the first Wang also thanks Oksenberg for his testimony to Sino-Soviet Summit since the 1950s. the US Congress on July 19, 1989. Oksenberg’s state- I remember those fateful days clearly as I was glued ment to the committee is a masterful defense of the US to CNN in my family’s living room in Connecticut. I was policy of engagement with China, defended by, in his packed for an exchange student program that was to words, “both interests and principle.” Oksenberg did not begin at Beijing Normal University on June 10, 1989. believe that the United States could change China, but Our program, run by Duke University, was finally he did believe that China’s reforms must benefit its re-organized to begin at Chinese University of Hong people and that the Chinese Communist Party faced Kong and then to move, as originally planned, for the imperative issues. It had to increase popular support for fall semester at Nanjing University. We were told that the regime and it needed to expand opportunities for we were the only student exchange programs from the political participation. In fact, by the late 1990s, the United States in China that fall. CCP began to implement deeper economic reforms and In a letter dated January 23, 1989, Wang thanks some political changes that did just that. Wang Oksenberg for hosting him in Ann Arbor. He also Huning’s departure to Zhongnanhai in 1994 allowed includes an academic paper in the letter that Wang was him to put into practice some of his “neo-authoritari- writing on the relationship between central and local an” ideas, especially policies that continued economic governments in China. Wang is worried about the reforms while strengthening the authority of the decline of central authority and the way in which the central Party-State. economic reforms were enhancing the political and Oksenberg’s 1989 testimony and his public writings economic autonomy of the regions. Oksenberg’s reply in the aftermath of Tiananmen put him in firmly in the on March 30th raises the question of whether China is conservative camp of policymakers who wanted to becoming a quasi-federalist system. Mike’s comments preserve US-China relations and regain the momentum are prescient. This theme becomes a major academic started after normalization in 1979. However, his policy University of Michigan L ieberthal- R ogel Center for Chinese S tudies Fall 2018 question in the mid-1990s. recommendations were always clear-eyed. Seen from There are then two letters from Wang to Oksenberg. our current perspective, and with the renewed debate One is on April 16, 1989 – the day after the death of in Washington about the alleged failure of the policy Hu Yaobang, the former CCP leader, which is the of engagement, Oksenberg’s closing words in a 1990 catalyst for the student protests. The second letter is Foreign Affairs essay are instructive: from July 22nd. It’s clear from Wang’s words that Oksenberg did not reply to the April letter, as Wang’s Finally, America has only limited influence on letter in July basically repeats the April letter, thanking China’s internal affairs…Yet, for reasons that have Oksenberg for his comments on the paper. But the July fascinated successive generations of historians, letter ends differently with these questions. “Would America has periodically sought to produce a you like to familiarize me your opinion about future China more to its liking. The efforts have always of Chinese modernization after the event we know? ended in massive failure…The United States still What kind of problems will be most important to seems trapped in the cycle of a “love-hate” China and most pressing to be resolved right now? “ relationship with China. It seems reluctant to Oksenberg doesn’t wait to reply this time. His acknowledge the obvious: China represents a response is only six days later. It appears in full here distinct and proud civilization whose search for (see pg. 5). modernity will continue to be punctuated by Wang responds on August 14th, quoting back one calamity and tragedy and whose necessary of Oksenberg’s sentences in particular. “I admire very incorporation into world affairs will require years much your statement that ‘the transition from Stalinist of effort. type, worn out system to a more effective system, is 6 — 7 Successful Launch of New Chair in New China Internship Initiative Tibetan Buddhist Studies Neal McKenna LRCCS Project Coordinator he University of Michigan’s College of LSA has received a gift of $2.5 million to establish the he Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies TKhyentse Gendun Chopel Professorship of Tibetan China Internship Initiative is off to a great start, Buddhist Studies, which will further enhance one of the Tand over the past summer the first cohort of largest Buddhist studies programs in North America. interns were working and learning with Chinese and The gift is largest dedicated to the study of Tibetan China-focused organizations. The internships were Buddhism in North America. sourced through alumni, and students got the chance Tibetan Buddhism, a tradition of Buddhism practiced not only to intern with exciting companies but to make in Tibet, Nepal, India, Mongolia, and other regions in China, connections with fellow Wolverines. today counts millions of followers around the world. The center received almost 80 applications from The professorship is made possible through the students for the internship opportunities, and we were generosity of the donors of Khyentse Foundation, able to finally place ten students in internships with which provides support for institutions and individuals five different organizations in Beijing, Taibei, Shanghai engaged in all traditions of Buddhist study and practice. and Detroit. The interns were working on and learning Michigan is only the second Khyentse chair in North about US-China trade relations, business management, America. The first was established at the University of social media marketing and the Chinese healthcare market. California, Berkeley, in 2006. “As citizens of a world that is ever shifting, U-M student Nina Pu met with Chinese Consul General of Chicago Hong Lei as part of her internship with the Michigan-China Innovation Center. changing and even precarious, we must all seek and contemplate sources of strength and sanity. For centuries, Buddhist study and practice have proved to bring stability and harmony to both individuals and society,” said Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, founder of Khyentse Foundation. “So in this day and age, it is more crucial than ever that such wisdom be preserved and kept alive in important institutions of learning like the University of Michigan.” The Khyentse Gendun Chopel Professorship will reside in LSA’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. It is named after the Tibetan poet, philosopher, and painter Gendun Chopel (1903-1951), regarded by many as the leading Tibetan thinker of the twentieth century. In fall 2019, the department will conduct an international search to fill the newly created professor- ship with a faculty member who will teach courses and conduct research to advance knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism. This research will be shared with students and scholars of Buddhism around the globe, enriching knowledge and understanding of an ancient religion whose teachings continue to inspire the modern world. “Michigan has a long and distinguished tradition of excellence in the field of Buddhist studies,” said Donald Lopez, chair of Asian languages and cultures and the Arthur E. Link Distinguished Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies. “This historic gift will allow us to expand both our undergraduate and our graduate programs in new directions. We are deeply grateful to Khyentse Foundation.” Reported in the June 27, 2018 issue of the U Record. okyo and ubingen in Germany, Universities of T Universities ubingen in Germany, at the University of Michigan Law School at the University meritus status from Emeritus status from In 1993 he was awarded , Episcopal Church St. Andrew’s or at St. Andrew’s The Breakfast Fund Scholarship Gray Emeritus Whitmore Professor The obituary for Whitmore Gray was published with Gray The obituary for Whitmore MI. News, Monroe, permission by the Monroe University of Michigan Law School and continued University at Fordham while also teaching teaching for 20 years Chair Bacon-Victor Kilkenny Law School, as the George City. New York in for a Distinguished Visiting Professor professor and visiting He served as guest lecturer of Muenster the world including Universities around and T China, France in Mexico, Kyoto in Japan, Universities and in the United States including and Hong Kong his robust During and Princeton Universities. Stanford sets of teaching compiled extensive Gray Professor career alternate dispute resolution law, materials on contract law has His work in comparative law. and comparative of law in understanding helped to shape this country’s Russia, Japan, China, Vietnam and Cambodia. honor may be Memorial Donations in Whitmore’s made to the following: • • •

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ogel Center for Chinese Studies he Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Professor Gray, of Whitmore mourns the passing passed away Gray Professor Emeritus of Law. hit had deep roots in Monroe Michigan as his Michigan in Monroe Whit had deep roots Principia College from degree his A.B. He received of joined the faculty of the University Gray Professor In addition to a lifetime of teaching and research vea (Blomquist) Gray in Harvey Svea (Blomquist) Gray married Whitmore

ucker-Gray (Kim), Mark and Mikio; grandfather to (Kim), Mark and Mikio; grandfather ucker-Gray aylor T T Whitmore Gray Whitmore 6, 2018 – March November 6, 1932 In Memoriam In ara, Maja, Lisa father to Sara, Illinois in 1958. He was T T Apodaca. He made his April, Angel, Hector and Marcos Arbor Michigan. with his family in Ann primary residence City and Albuquer- They also enjoyed homes in New York (as well as the many homes they made together que to places includ- extensively the world traveling around Mexico and Japan). France, Hong Kong, Germany, ing: and legacy family was actively involved in the leadership generations; Evening News for three of the Monroe continuously longest founded in 1825 and the state’s published newspaper. of Michigan the University from in 1954 and JD degree in 1957. While in Law School he served as editor-in-chief he of the Michigan Law Review. Following graduation, law in and practiced of Paris studied at the University by an LL.D. degree He was awarded City. New York Adrian College in 1982. in 1960; Michigan Law School as an assistant professor in 1963 and to associate professor he was promoted - until his retire he remained in 1966 where professor of ment in 1993 after a distinguished 33-year career teaching and research. firms law at a number of different practiced Whitmore City Lane & Mittendorf, New York including: Casey, Steen & Hamilton in Gottlieb, (1958-1960), Geary, Greene and LeBoeuf, Lamb, City (1974-80) New York & MacRae (1994-2001). peacefully in his sleep on March 6, 2018 in Ann Arbor 6, 2018 on March peacefully in his sleep side. He will be missed. with his family at his 9 University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 8 — Luis Oscar Gómez April 7, 1943-September 3, 2017

uis Gómez, distinguished scholar of Buddhism, Luis Gómez’s scholar- passed away in Mexico City on September 3, 2017. ship on Buddhism covered LAt the time of his death, he was Professor Emeritus a remarkable range of of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of important topics over his Michigan. He had retired from the faculty on January 1, career, including Indian, 2009. Tibetan, Chinese, and The son of a physician, Luis Gómez was born in pan-Asian Buddhism, with Puerto Rico on April 7 1943, growing up in the town a particular emphasis on of Guayanilla. He received his B.A. degree in 1963 from the literature and religious Universidad de Puerto Rico, enrolling there at age vision of the Mahayana. sixteen. He received his Ph.D. degree in Buddhist He wrote a number of Studies, Indic Philology, and Japanese Language and groundbreaking articles devoted to the “sudden vs. Literature from Yale University in 1967. His first gradual” dichotomy in both early Chinese Chan and at academic position was at the University of Washington. the Samye Debate in Tibet. Among his books, his Land After that, he returned to Puerto Rico for four years, of Bliss: The Paradise of the Buddha of Measureless serving as chair of the Department of Philosophy at Light (1996) is considered the definitive study of this the Universidad de Puerto Rico. highly influential Buddhist scripture. He also published He joined the University of Michigan faculty as an extensively in Spanish. Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies in 1973 and After his retirement from the faculty at the was promoted to full professor in 1979. In 1986, he was University of Michigan at the end of 2008, Luis Gómez named a “Collegiate Professor,” the highest faculty rank remained fully active as a scholar and teacher, continu- in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at ing to publish energetically. A major figure in the field Michigan, naming his professorship after his former of Buddhist Studies for half a century, Luis Gómez colleague and mentor, the distinguished Chinese will be sorely missed by his many students, colleagues, historian Charles Hucker. and friends. Luis Gómez’s contributions to Buddhist Studies during his thirty-five years at Michigan spanned the We thank Donald Lopez and Paul Harrison for this areas of graduate training, undergraduate teaching, in memoriam for Luis Gomez. and scholarship. He founded Michigan’s highly regarded Ph.D. program in Buddhist Studies, which has produced several generations of outstanding scholars. In recogni- tion of his outstanding undergraduate teaching, he was named Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in 1997. A dedicated administrator, he chaired the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures for a decade. - in recogni . Neubacher Award, , Associate Robert Adams and of Architecture Professor Master of Science in Director, Health, was Design and the U-M Council for awarded James Disability Concerns 2017 T and tion of his commitment of contributions to areas The annual award disability. e congratulate Professor Adams Professor e congratulate treet, in Nantou Street, alented People ogether T He also participated in a recent exhibition titled exhibition He also participated in a recent Shì > Sapiens: Cánjí rén > Cánjí Cheng Chromo e Are The Social Imperative: Architecture and the and Architecture The Social Imperative: ee, Editor., - and modern restored Urban Village. The design project a space that is simultane- ized the house to produce Century to allow a ously Qing Dynasty and early 21st the house during the Biennale, new life in and around and to open up new possibilities for its use into the information on the exhibition can be found More future. En/default.aspx. at: http://www.szhkbiennale.org/ serves as a memorial to Jim Neubacher, a U-M Alumnus to Jim Neubacher, serves as a memorial and an Press Free for the Detroit who was a columnist The honor is living with disabilities. advocate for people and alumni who staff, students given to U-M faculty, support of the and service in have exhibited leadership W disability community. this award! on receiving a chapter titled Adams wrote Professor additionally, “W Disabled Disabled City, Cánjí Jiànzhú - Disabled Person, which was published in H. Koon [2017] Architecture.” W AA Asia]. Actar Publishers, City in China [Barcelona: Shenzhen Scenes: Cánjírén and “House 17: Migrating Shenzhen/ Space,” that was part of the Bi-City Precariat with rchitecture Biennale of Urbanism and A Hong Kong Hou Hanru, Liu Xiaodu and Meng Yan, Mary-Ann Ray, – 15, 2017 December It was on display from curators. in Shenzhen, China. HOUSE 17 is a 15, 2018 March Dynasty Qing of a larger small, historical fragment formerly Street, on Happy Peaceful structure courtyard Bringing T Faculty Associate News Associate Faculty Debing Su officially joined the LRCCS community as a commu- nications manager in June is focused on Her role 2018. connecting LRCCS to audiences through at home and abroad In media and social channels. addition, she works at Michigan she develops, News where implements and manages the (LRCCS Special Eric Couillard took a trip to Beijing Programs) July 2018, and Shanghai in interviewed LRCCS he where their lives and alumni about - stories in China. These inter up and views will be written Blog posted on the LRCCS as (chinese-studies-blog.org), of series part of a larger university’s strategic communications for Greater China. for Greater communications strategic university’s as a commu- Debing also has a part-time appointment Global School’s nications manager for the U-M Medical with supporting its engagements REACH Program, A China. A native of Shenzhen, China, she holds an M the University in Mass Communications from degree Beijing Forestry of Florida and a BA in English from China. Debing is a Latin America enthusiast University, including extensively in the region, who has traveled One of her Colombia, and Brazil. Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Eve New Year’s memories is celebrating travel greatest in Rio with locals and friends she made on the road. he series includes interviews with LRCCS The series includes interviews interviews. of the members and other fellows, postdoctoral faculty, of He also visited with some LRCCS community. greater to help ensure company managers the interns and their Initiative. the continued success of the China Internship Faculty & Staff News Staff News Staff

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — 11 10 Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Benjamin Brose, Associate Professor of Chinese Professor of Political Science, Religions in the Department of Asian Languages and has been named an Andrew Cultures, spent the summer conducting research in Carnegie Fellow for 2018. This Europe with a home base at the University of Ham- distinguished award is given burg’s Asien-Afrika-Institut. This is the first of two annually by the Carnegie research periods carried out with the support of the Corporation of New York to Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Ben will be extraordinary scholars and continuing work on two book projects centered on the writers to make it possible for life and legacies of the famous Tang-dynasty monk, them to devote the year to pilgrim, and translator Xuanzang. A new article, “The significant research, writing, and publishing. While a Pig and the Prostitute: The Cult of Zhu Bajie in Modern Carnegie fellow, Professor Ang will be working on her Taiwan,” will be published in the Journal of Chinese research project “Unlikely Successes: Building Markets Religions later this year. Despite or Using Constraints in Poor Countries.” We congratulate Professor Ang on receiving this Miranda Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies in the prestigious award! Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, will be In 2017, Professor Ang was invited to speak on her on sabbatical during Winter Term 2019, her first leave book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016), at in nine years. She will be working on her new project China’s State Council, specifically at on the culinary history of late imperial China, meeting the Development Research Council with tofu makers and restauranteurs in the Jiangnan and a newly established center for region of China as well as in Kyoto, Japan. international development, known as the CIKD. She also gave the Dawn Lawson, Head of the Asia Library, spent the keynote lecture at an international month of January 2018 studying Chinese at the seminar organized by CIKD and Inter-University Program for Chinese Studies on the DFID (UK Department of Interna- campus of Tsinghua University. tional Development). Commentators at the event included representatives from China’s multilateral and Linda Lim, Professor Emerita bilateral partners, including the World Bank and United of Business, had her book, Nations. After a Chinese summary of How China Business, Government and Escaped the Poverty Trap appeared in The Paper (Peng Labor: Essays on Economic Pai), a newspaper based in Shanghai, it was read over Development in Singapore 160,000 times. A Chinese translation of Ang’s book will and Southeast Asia published be released in China in 2018. by World Scientific Publications With Jennifer Staats (USIP, Director of Asia in February 2018. Program), Professor Ang organized a panel at the although “retired”, she United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on “China’s continues to teach Chinese Impact on Global Development and Conflict.” Professor executives how to “go global” in Ann Arbor custom Ang also penned a feature essay in the Foreign Affairs’ programs offered by Ross Executive Education, May/June Issue of “Is Democracy Dying?” along with especially to Belt-and-Road countries, including Ronald Inglehart, Walter Mead and others. In her essay, organizing symposia on Russia, Indonesia and South she argues that “China has in fact pursued significant Africa in February-March. political reforms—just not in the manner that Western In March-April, she took on a visiting appointment observers expected... [creating] a unique hybrid: as NTUC Professor of International Economic Relations autocracy with democratic characteristics.” 2018, at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. This involved giving three public lectures on, respectively, US trade policy, China-Singapore-Southeast Asia economic relations, and challenges facing China’s Belt-and-Road Initia- tive. All were fully-attended and reported in the local media, and written up and published as op-eds in The Straits Times. In addition, she Yuen Yuen Ang speaking at China’s State Council. Photo courtesy of the Center gave talks on Singapore’s economy for International Knowledge on Development, State Council, China urning Point - Forty Years of Chinese Contempo- - Forty Years urning Point “T Natsu Oyobe and Fang Zhang at the Song Art Museum, Beijing. Artwork by Lin Tianmiao, SYSTEM; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; July 2018 Oil works in the exhibit “Turning Point - Forty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art,” Long Museum of Art. rt”, one of the most ambitious programs of the ambitious programs Art”, one of the most rary massive several Long Museum in Shanghai, exhibits in rt, University of Michi - of rt, University of Asian A , Curator Oyobe Natsu academic joined our A), has Art (UMM of gan Museum an art tour She went on as a faculty associate. community with artists in Korea summer after meeting in China this during of her trip held The China portion and Japan. Center Associate Fang guided by LRCCS July 3-9 was galleries art museums, prominent Zhang. They visited the Shanghai and Beijing in and artist studios around important art piece for the collectionhope of acquiring an Rockbund Art Museum at UMMA. In Shanghai, the works. artist Lin Tianmiao’s the celebrated featured

ai-yee Li, Some of the former Ph.D. students and Chinese colleagues of Donald Emeritus , Professor Munro have of Chinese Philosophy, put together a festschrift entitled: book in his honor, New Life of Old Ideas: Chinese Philosophy in the . The World Contemporary An Yanming, are editors of Philosophy Professor e congratulate him on receiving this honor! him on receiving e congratulate ssociates of the Institute of Policy Studies Policy Institute of of the ssociates A to Corporate freedom, on academic ingapore), of S University (National on S College, and and identity at Yale-NU innovation - the Maybank ASEAN Invest Relations at ASEAN-China staff of the and to senior 2018, Conference ment with She also met tudies. Southeast Asian S Institute for both including officials, and government researchers Halimah and with President Deputy Prime Ministers, a lunch for her at the Istana who hosted Yaacob, present Michigan alumni were (Government House). at all of her public events. was recently Daniel Little, U-M-Dearborn Chancellor, Chancel- the Year. Michiganian of as a 2018 recognized for his commitment to an lor Little was nominated campus actively engaged academic inclusive, diverse his leadership Under community. with the broader more at U-M Dearborn increased campus enrollment of color of students and enrollment than 12 percent since 2000. Chancellor percent than 71 more increased August 1, to the teaching faculty on Little returned W 2018. and of Chinese at Clemson University, Clemson, South and of Chinese at Clemson University, of Philosophy, and, Brian Bruya, Professor Carolina; Michigan. Ypsilanti, Eastern Michigan University, The book is scheduled to be published in October Press. of Hong Kong by The Chinese University 2018, American Council of Learned the additionally, Societies (ACLS) has announced that the Donald J. will be W Centennial Fellow for 2018 Munro University. at Harvard of Chinese Literature Professor on “The Li will be working on her project Professor Life and Art in Late Imperial of Things: Paradoxes Munro’s Professor through China.” Established in 2012 Fund for Chinese gifts to ACLS, the Munro generous for Thought helps support ACLS Fellowships awarded on Chinese philosophical traditions projects research and ethical systems that exhibit high quality in sinology to human as well as relevance and in critical analysis, information on this fund and ACLS More problems. this link: https:// can be found through fellowships, www.acls.org/news/1-25-12/

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — 13 12 high-ceiling exhibition halls the works of prominent Hitomi Tonomura, Professor of artists of previous decades such as Zhang Xiaogang, History, has joined our center as Fang Lijun, Xie Nanxing, Xu Zhen and others. a faculty associate. Her areas In addition to exploring the contemporary art scene, of specialization include Asia; Dr. Oyobe and Fang Zhang also visited museums that global and world history; gender display traditional arts and cultural relics, such as the studies and sexuality; medieval Shanghai Museum of Art and the Song Museum of Art. and early modern studies; and Both exhibit some of the most important traditional religion. Professor Tonomura paintings and artifacts from the Song, Yuan, Ming and completed her doctorate at Qing Dynasties. Stanford University in 1986.

Martin Powers, Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Emily Wilcox, Assistant Chinese Arts and Cultures, has recently completed a Professor of Modern Chinese book on “China and England: the Preindustrial Struggle Studies, has a new book for Justice in Word and Image,” and it is due to come Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese out in fall, 2018, published by Routledge. This past April Dance and the Socialist Legacy he gave the keynote speech for the symposium “The that will be published by the Way of the Vessel: Collecting, Studying, and Copying University of California Press Ancient Bronzes,” organized and sponsored by the Art in November 2018. Combining Institute of Chicago together with the Dept. of Art over a decade of ethnographic History at the University of Chicago. Also in April, he and archival research, her book delivered a paper for an international conference on offers the first English-language primary source-based “Questioning the Monarch” organized by Bonn Univer- history of concert dance in the People’s Republic of sity, Germany. In June 2018 he delivered a paper and China. Thanks to the generous support of the LRCCS participated in a roundtable discussion at Zhejiang Publication Subvention Award and the U-M Open University on the topic: “The Future of the Individual Access Monograph Publication Initiative Program in Light of Current Events.” Participants included Li Book Subvention Award, Revolutionary Bodies is richly Bozhong , Tu Wei-ming, et. al. Professor Powers’ next illustrated with thirty color photographs, one map, and project, which began in summer 2018, is a close study nineteen embedded videos of dance recordings made of Zhuangzi’s notion of xiaoyao, “wondering freely,” between 1947 and 2015. The book will be published and how it played out visually and politically during both in paperback and a free Open Access ebook the Han and Song periods. available worldwide. additionally, a conference to honor Professor In addition to her book, Professor Wilcox has also Powers’ distinguished career will take place during published three new articles this past year. Her article Nov. 9-10, 2018 on central campus. More information on dance in inter-Asian diplomacy, titled “Performing is available in the “Events” section of this newsletter. Bandung: China’s Dance Diplomacy with India, Indonesia, and Burma, 1953-1962,” was Thomas Kelly, Assistant published in Inter-Asia Cultural Professor of Chinese Literature Studies in December 2017. Her and Michigan Society of article on the uses of folk material Fellows postdoc has joined in Chinese dance, titled “Dynamic our academic community as a Inheritance: Representative Works faculty associate. His research and the Authoring of Tradition in focuses on the interplay Chinese Dance,” was published in between literature and the the Journal of Folklore Research in visual and plastic arts in early February 2018. Lastly, her article on historiographical modern China. At present, he issues in contemporary PRC studies will be published is working on a book entitled “Clawed Skin: The Literary in positions: asia critique in November 2018. She will Inscription of Things in Late Imperial China” that be on research leave in Winter 2019, when she plans examines changing practices of engraving verse onto to finalize her co-edited collection Corporeal Politics: the surfaces of quotidian objects. This study shows how Dancing East Asia, based on the 2017 LRCCS Annual poetic strategies of animating everyday artifacts— Conference. She also plans to work on her second whether ink-cakes, wine cups, or walking sticks— monograph, which is about border-crossing Asian intersected with sophisticated modes of commercial women choreographers and their contributions to branding from the late sixteenth century onwards. global modernism during the early Cold War era. D), includes gridded emission data emission gridded D), includes (CHRE Database CHRED is km. 10 1 km and of spatial resolution with point sources bottom-up, facility-level derived from 1km China. The 1km × Mainland entire covering the among all similar is the highest resolution resolution D in China. CHRE emissions point source datasets for will be continuously to 2015 2007 from data span only carbon dioxide covers updated. CHRED currently of including is in the process and (CO2) emissions, of CHRED is available free types of emissions. more the Chinese uses through for non-commercial charge (CEEIO) Extended Input-Output Environmentally ). A paper describing the database (www.ceeio.com published been D has recently development of CHRE & Recycling Conservation in the journal of Resources, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j. and can be found at ). CHRED is developed in resconrec.2017.10.036 nvironmental with Chinese Academy of E partnership This project Planning and Beijing Normal University. Rogel Center was partially supported by the Lieberthal- for Chinese Studies. of The original article and image is by permission Sustainability: and the U-M School of Environmental - http://seas.umich.edu/news/12_06_2017/seas_fac ulty_co_develop_high_resolution_spatial_emission_ database_china urvey Survey Professor, Assistant esearch Xu, R Hongwei articles: two published ISR, recently Center, Research iu. Lydia Li, and JinyuL Zhenmei Zhang, Xu, Hongwei, famine 1959–61 to China’s “Early life exposure 2018. Journal of cognition.” International and midlife and Xu, Hongwei. 47(1):109-20; Epidemiology health of Chinese “Physical and mental Forthcoming. and great- for grandchildren caring grandparents DOI: Social Science & Medicine. grandparents.” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.05.047. the School for in Ming Xu, Associate Professor ustainability (SEAS), and the and S Environment Engineering, and Environmental Department of Civil for of China Programs Director has been appointed Xu will chair the Global Professor SEAS. In this role, the for SEAS and represent Engagement Committee Council on Global Engagement. He school on U-M’s program China engagement a strategic will oversee with Chinese for SEAS, including expanding relations and identifying academic partnership universities opportunities. Fellow Shen Xu and Research Professor additionally, in China to Qu have been working with collaborators database for spatial emission develop a high-resolution Emission China. 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University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — 15 14 Center Associate News Medicine and Family Medicine Work Together in a Community Health Center in China.” Dr. Fetters has Over the past year, Brian also recently been appointed to the Editorial Board of Bruya, Professor of Philosophy Family Medicine and Community Health, which was at Eastern Michigan University established by the Chinese General Practice Press as and LRCCS Center Associate, an international focused, peer reviewed open-access published translations of C. C. journal supported by the Chinese Hospital Association Tsai’s Analects of Confucius and the National Health and Family Planning Commis- and Sunzi’s Art of War, and sion of the People’s Republic of China. wrote an article titled “Wisdom Can Be Taught: A Proof-of- Bo Liu, Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities Concept Study for Fostering at John Carroll University, was recently awarded a Wisdom in the Classroom,” co-authored with Monika $9,000 grant by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Ardelt, to be published in Learning and Instruction, for her research titled “Image of Women in Transition: Vol. 58, forthcoming. Over this past summer, he was Shinu tu (仕女圖) from the Seventh to Eleventh working on a complete translation of the Kongzi Jia Yu. Century” for the year 2018-2019. During the 2018-19, he will be on sabbatical and Visiting Scholar at Shandong University’s Collaborative Sydney Xu Lu, Assistant Innovation Center of Confucian Civilization. Professor of History at Michigan State University, Maura Elizabeth has become a LRCCS Center Cunningham, Digital Associate. Professor Lu does Media Manager at the research in the areas of Association for Asian Studies, migration, colonialism, race, along with Jeff Wasserstrom, gender, and transnational Chancellor’s Professor of history of Japan, East Asia History at UC Irvine, co-wrote and the Pacific. a new edition of China in the 21st Century: What Xuefei Ren, Associate Professor Everyone Needs to Know, in Sociology and Global Urban thoroughly updated to Studies, Michigan State Univer- account for changes during the Xi Jinping Era. It was sity, is working on a comparative published by Oxford University Press in spring 2018. project on urban governance in China, India, and Brazil, focusing Michael D. Fetters, Professor, U-M Department of on housing, land, and infrastruc- Family Medicine, has been appointed Adjunct Professor ture. She has recently published at Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China from a number of articles from the March 2018-February 2021. Additionally, he gave a project, including “From Chicago presentation on “Quaternary Preventive Services: to China and India: Studying the City in the 21st Principles Every Family Physician Should Know” in Century” (Annual Review of Sociology, 2018), “Govern- January 2018 at the same hospital. In March 2018, ing the Informal: Informal Housing Policies in China, he gave a talk on “Getting Started in General Practice India, and Brazil (Housing Policy Debate, 2017), and Research: Choosing Among Five Practical Methodolo- “Aspirational Urbanism from Beijing to Rio de Janeiro: gies” as an invited speaker at the fifth annual General Olympic Cities in the Global South and Contradictions” Practice Cross Straits Conference held in Nanning, China. (Journal of Urban Affairs, 2017). Her co-edited book, Dr. Fetters also co-wrote an article with Chu Globalizing Cities Reader, has just been published by Hongling, Li Nan, Zhen Lin, Tao Liyuan, Shi Yanyan, Routledge. With more than 60 chapters, the book exam- Zhang Hua, Wang Xiaoxiao and Zhao Yiming on “Mixed ines the intellectual foundations of global urban studies Methods Research and the Application of MMR in and provides an overview of the emergent patterns of Clinical Research,” published in the National Medical 21st century urbanization and associated sociopolitical Journal of China, 97 (1):50-3, 2017. He also received a contestation around the world. grant from LRCCS to pursue his research on “East Meets West: An Exploration of How Traditional Chinese en Hui, O Gallery, Ms. W Ms. O Gallery, T ssistant Professor Professor ssistant Wu, A Yulian State at Michigan of History CCS has become a LR University, She is a Center Associate. China. Late Imperial historian of focuses on material Her research ethnicity history, gender culture, of the politics and borderland Qing dynasty (1644-1912). book Luxurious first Wu’s Dr. ang Zexu, President of the Attached School of ang Zexu, President viv Museum and other contemporary art spaces el Aviv Museum and other contemporary Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Status, and Statecraft Networks: Salt Merchants, China (https://www.sup.org/books/ Eighteenth-Century Huizhou salt merchants’ title/?id=25796) examines in High Qing China, revealing with objects interactions and the between merchants a dynamic connection focuses on the project imperial court. Her current of nephrite jade from and consumption production Xinjiang in eighteenth-century China. Associate. Fang Zhang has become a LRCCS Center she of Israel, Affairs Invited by the Ministry of Foreign art special- Chinese took a delegation of contemporary This delegation during June 24-29, 2018. ists to Israel of Gao Hong, the party secretary was composed of Mr. Xie Xiaofan, Mr. Academy of Fine Arts, the Central of National Art Museum of China, deputy director W Mr. Huang Yunhe, Beijing Academy of Art and Design, Mr. of OFO founding director Fang Zhang, LRCCS Center Associate and U-M Professor Joseph Lam, Director of the Confucius Institute at U-M. Chinese Cultural Exchange Delegation in Israel,2018. impressed During the five-day visit, the delegates were and lively contemporary traditions by the rich cultural after hearing five thematic talks, of Israel creativity Museum, the visiting the Holocaust Museum, the Israel T of three and administrators and talking with educators Bezalel, Shenka, and BASIS. top-notch art academies, cultural of diverse program This young leadership field their professional specialists will invigorate un Yongzeng, Director Director Sun Yongzeng, Mr. and dancer, choreographer Joseph Lam, U-M Professor of White Box Art Center, U-M Professor of Confucius Institute U-M and Director Shu, an oil painter. Yang and Mr. of Ethnomusicology, atson gai - gai.” And - ransregional ransregional egarding erminology Regarding wo additional contributions Center Associate Tim Wixted Sinitic’ published “‘Literary and ‘Latin’ as T Languages: With Implications for T Sino-Platonic Papers ,’” ‘Kanbun 14 pp. 2018), #276 (March T in Japonica Hum- appeared “Kanshi boldtiana 19 (2017): , Visiting Fellow Fellow Tiffert , Visiting Glenn Hoover Institution, at the S become a LRCC has Stanford, Tiffert’s Center Associate. Dr. center on interests research China, particu- 20th century - of revolu larly its experience among tion. At the vanguard Chinese of modern scholars he has published legal history, nichijo¯ and Go Hokuyu¯ nichijo¯ gai: Hokuyu¯ - ex : Mori O and City in Kanshi Stereoscopic the S by Mori O (Part 2),” pp. 49-94; and “Remembering Burton W (Part nglish and Chinese on the construction of works in English and Chinese on the court system and judiciary, the modern Chinese of PRC Constitution, the legacies of the 1954 drafting to the PRC, and the Nationalist judicial modernization hidden He is now PRC legal policy. of current genealogy disrupts radically a book manuscript that completing and the the 1949 revolution wisdom about received archival place in Chinese history via the first PRC’s - reconstitu study in any language of the takeover and Chinese Nationalist courts by the tion of Beijing’s he was a LRCCS During 2015-17, Communist Party. Scholar. Postdoctoral pril 1, 2017),” pp. 229-32. He attended (June 13, 1925 – April 1, 2017),” on “Reconsidering the at Rice University a conference Sinitic in A Critical Analysis of the Literary Sinosphere: “Kanshi he gave the paper, where East Asian Cultures,” as ‘Chinese Language’: The Case of Mori O of British Columbia he gave a talk at the University on “ and Niigata.”

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17 16 research and enliven classrooms, campuses, theatres, Lei Duan (PhD, Syracuse): Since this past winter term, and other creative spaces. Joseph Lam and Fang Zhang LRCCS postdoctoral fellow Lei Duan has presented will take these learning experiences back to the U-M his research in a number of professional venues. campus and build stronger ties among students, faculty He presented his book project on gun culture and and community people by cultivating cultural and gun control in modern China in the LRCCS Noon Lecture artistic awareness of diverse social, religious and Series March. On May 4, he presented his recent research political backgrounds. entitled “Contested Memories of the Past: The History Textbook Controversy in Taiwan” at the UM-UPR Symposium in Puerto Rico. One chapter of his book LRCCS Postdoctoral Scholars 2017-2019 project about the Communist mobilization of armed peasants was presented in a conference organized by Elizabeth Berger (PhD, UNC): This past summer, University of Macau in late May. He was also invited to Dr. Berger traveled to several Chinese institutions to work give a talk about gun culture globally at U-M Migration on collaborative projects in the field of bioarchaeology, in World History and Literature workshop for secondary which uses human skeletons to understand ancient history teachers on July 26. In early August, he presented health and disease. At the Gansu Provincial Institute a paper entitled “The Control of the Gun: The Commu- of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in Lanzhou, she nist Policies on Armed Masses in Tibet in the 1950s” worked with an international team on a large Bronze in a conference organized by the Historical Society for Age cemetery (1750-1100 BCE), where they have found Twentieth Century China. His article “Between Social evidence of warfare, ritual cranial surgery, and infec- Control and Popular Power: The Circulation of Private tious diseases. This was their fourth field season, and Guns and Control Policies during the mid to late Qing, their largest team to date (eight members). Their 1781-1911” was published in American Journal of findings at this site will help them piece together the Chinese Studies. Two other articles are under review. impacts of climate change, conflict, and socioeconomic In winter 2018, He taught Asian/History 205 Modern change on life in ancient Northwest China. At the East Asia at U-M. He is currently working on two Yangguanzhai Archaeological Field school in Shaanxi, research projects: one is a book manuscript about she worked with an international group of students— private gun ownership and its sociocultural and the field school’s largest class ever!—who were prepar- political implications in modern China. The other ing for their first excavation. She also examined the project explores how the Communist government skeletons of local Ming Dynasty elites whose tomb asserted its monopoly of violence in China’s borderland inscriptions contain their names and life stories, and areas from the 1950s. whose bones held evidence of bound feet, fractures, and smallpox. Finally, she worked with students at Jilin Jeffrey Javed (PhD, Harvard): University to study the skeletal remains from a late This past summer Dr. Javed Qing Dynasty Christian cemetery, where they observed went to Shanghai to attend the several cases of tuberculosis, as well as arthritis, Workshop on Chinese Politics probably the result of a lifetime of physical labor. and Society hosted by the Dr. Berger also attended three international conferences School of International and in China this summer, including the Society for East Asian Public Affairs at Jiaotong Archaeology in Nanjing, which were all testaments to the University. There his co-author growing interest of foreign scholars in the work of Chinese and he presented their survey archaeologists and increasing international collaboration. experiment paper on the tension between public morality and rule of law in China. Shortly thereafter, he saw one of the big summer hit movies—我不是药神 (Dying to Survive)—in theaters, which is, coincidentally, about navigating the dividing line between what is right and what the law prescribes. It's always nice to see one’s research intersecting with popular culture! And he highly recommends watching the movie! Other than that, he spent most of the summer working on revisions for his book manuscript, which is now under contract at University of Michigan Press, and on several other projects. Last but not least, LRCCS Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Berger photographing bones at Jilin University, he enjoyed spending time at home in New York City summer 2018. and New Jersey with his family and friends. echnology in is a professor Liu Chengbin is a professor of at Huazhong University Science and T Wuhan, and will be working with Shuming Bao at the His research China Data Center. focuses on the social risks to urban involved with rural for Chinese citizens. migration is a PhD candidate is a PhD candidate An Pengli - of Geosci at China University She will be ences in Beijing. , Ming Xu in SEAS working with on accounting doing research for the energy-water-carbon compa- flow of global energy the nies and understanding competition for energy resources. ssociate Professor He will be working with Associate Professor echnology. nergy Energy is a PhD candidate at the Center for Ma Yanran at the Chinese Academy of Policy and Environmental She will be working with Associate Professor Sciences. and Sustainabil- Ming Xu in the School of Environment how air pollution affects happiness researching ity, levels and mental health. is an associate professor at the National Dong Dan is an associate professor who will be working Theater Arts, Academy of Chinese Rolston in Asian David with Associate Professor the She will be researching Language and Cultures. the history and framing of Chinese operas translation of Chinese operas. of translation of Li Yiming is a PhD candidate at the Beijing Institute T Sustainabil- and Ming Xu in the School of Environment carbon emission mitigation and will be researching ity, emissions carbon efforts in China, and how reducing economy. will effect China’s LRCCS Visiting Scholars 2018-2019 Scholars Visiting LRCCS Participants of the Socialist Theatres of Reform conference at Notre Dame, who will collectively publish an edited volume of their work in the coming year. Attendees pose as Cultural Revolutionary performers, with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Back row, third from left: Anne Rebull; front row third from right, U-M Assistant Professor Emily Wilcox; and former LRCCS postdoctoral scholar Tarryn Chun (back row, second from left). Dr. Chun is now an assistant professor at Notre Dame. his past summer, summer, ): This past Chicago Rebull (PhD, Anne in South at conferences papers presented Rebull Dr. in Chinese theatre; on socialist era Bend, Indiana of Association Asian for the Boston, Massachusetts a specific England on and in London, Performance; of adaptation in study of the politics Chinese case two of these the first The work at Asian theater. into a chapter contribution was expanded conferences on the history of socialist Chinese to an edited volume conference, A submission to a fourth reform. theatre was Research, Theatre the American Society for this autumn. All three accepted for presentation due eventually to be separate topics are conference manuscript under development that in a book chapters concerns in the history of socialist specific will address the lens of adaptation between through reform theatre addition to enjoying the travel, and within media. In and new with so many old she loved reconnecting goofing off and friends working in Chinese theatre, style, too. with them in revolutionary

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — 19 18 Mao Cui (毛毳) is Associate LRCCS Experiential Learning Funds (ELF) Professor of Dance Studies in the Humanities Institute at the Beijing Dance Academy. She Michigan Sustainability Case Trip holds a PhD in Dance Studies to Red Flag Canal and is a member of the China Dancers Association, and she fter receiving Experiential Learning Funds from has been the recipient of LRCCS, Rebecca Hardin, Associate Professor of several prestigious national A and Beijing-level awards for Environment and Sustainability, led a group of U-M her research and teaching. In 2016, she received China’s graduate students on a research and case writing trip to most competitive national-level social science research the Red Flag Canal. The Red Flag Canal is an important grant for her project titled “Twentieth-century Ameri- historical and tourist site in China’s Henan province, can Modern Dance’s Borrowings from Eastern Culture noted as an example of the CCP’s ability to mobilize and Their Relationship to Its Transformations.” Her research areas include dance body language, cross- people into public works projects. The Canal has had cultural research in dance, and the history of American major effects on the local environment and ecology of modern dance. Her representative articles on Chinese Henan and is an excellent selection for a sustainability contemporary dance choreography include “Modern focused case study. Professor Hardin worked alongside Dance’s Chinese Image” (现代舞的中国形像)， Professor Ling Mu of Tsinghua University’s China Case ”The Influence of Chinese Traditional Culture on China’s Modern Dance Choreography” (中国传统文化对中国 Center for Public Policy and Management, and the U-M 现代舞创作的影响), “The ‘Silk Road’ in Contemporary students teamed up with Tsinghua students to tour and Chinese Dance Drama” (中国舞剧当代进程中的“丝 research the canal, interview local officials and generate 路”), and "Obscuring and Revealing: Live Dance in a case study in both English and Mandarin. The case study Gallery Spaces" (遮蔽与凸显—画廊里的舞蹈). In 2017-2018 she was a Visiting Scholar in the Chinese will be published by Michigan Sustainability Cases, and Department at Peking University the trip furthered a strengthening partnership between Tsinghua and U-M. Wang Juan is a tenured professor at McGill University in Montreal, who will be working with Mary Gallagher in Political Science on her second book manuscript, which examines the Chinese govern- ment’s organizational strength, including police capacity, judicial enforcement, and other areas. Professor Wang will join our China Reading Group, a group of faculty and students with interests in contemporary China.

Zhao Yuandong is a PhD candidate at the Beijing Institute of Technology. He will be working with Associate Professor Ming Xu in the School of Environ- ment and Sustainability, and conducting research on how climate change will impact energy demand and consumption. Students from U-M and Tsinghua at the entrance of the Red Flag Canal. Professor Ling Mu of Tsinghua is in the red shirt left of center. Professor Rebecca Hardin is in the scarf right of center. echnol- Naxi ceremonial pictographic text. -Liangxiang. of labor during the socialist and reform periods of the of the periods and reform the socialist during of labor doctors, on barefoot focusing chapters .C., with R P. and worker education, rural practice, amateur art in the 1980s. literature in May 2018. , graduated , LRCCS MA Michael Bumann to visit traveled he and his wife After graduation, moving to Beijing in August. friends and family before of T They be teaching English at Beijing Institute as well, and as well as doing some teacher training ogy, as to being back in the classroom Michael looks forward with students to to working He looks forward a teacher. but also to continue skills, their language improve educational experience learning about the Chinese with new relationships to them. They look forward from and folks in the community new colleagues, students, BIT surrounding had Dimmery, Ph.D. student in ALC, recently Katie about the with our community good news to share texts to the Sanba community of ceremonial return Naxi ethnic in southwest China. Southwest China’s fame for a certain antiquarian minority has acquired and endan- texts written in a unique, their ceremonial script. While various preservation pictographic gered, at sorting and efforts have over the last decade aimed very archives, the Naxi books available in translating of little attention has been given to the repatriation origin. The these texts back to their communities of communities multiple. Because Naxi are here ironies last century— lost the majority of their books over the erm Social erm and Long-T e wish them all the very best! W earning in Chinese University eaching and Learning in Chinese University rt Production Life and Amateur Art Production ork: Cultural (“The Yunnan- Marilynn Evenmo aijiao Classrooms”), After W and Economic Outcomes.” - tation Archi Vietnam Railway: Railway Imperialism, S Wang and Late-Qing Publications”), Weihang tecture, (“ Effects of Elite Factories”), and Meizi Li, “The in Mao’s Secondary School on Short-T Angie Baecker, ALC PhD candidate, taught a summer history, R.C. cultural seminar in ALC on P. undergraduate She is of Revolution and Reform.” titled “Cultures during the Kong in Hong research conducting archival and is writing her dissertation on cultures fall of 2017, MA Cohort: l to r—Meizi Li, Marilyn Evenmo, Michael Bumann, Weihang Wang this past May students graduated Four LRCCS Masters They are: with an MA in Asian Studies: China. 2018 Cultural in Contact: Michael Bumann (“Cultures Scripts of T W LRCCS MA Graduates 2018 2018 Graduates MA LRCCS Student & Alumni News

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — 21 20 to the 1960s Cultural Revolution and to large-scale Yujeong Yang, Ph.D. student in Political Science, collection efforts in the name of research—most graduated in the summer of 2018. Her dissertation is remaining Naxi texts exist in archives, far removed titled “Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Dual Pension from the people who know how to use them, and Regimes in China.” She has accepted the position of indeed how to teach them to others. Assistant Professor, Political Science Department at the Katie’s 2016-2018 dissertation research centered in State University of New York, Cortland. She shared southwest China’s Sanba Township, formerly a regional with us that LRCCS provided her with opportunities center of Naxi textual production, but with a typically to explore and study various topics in Chinese studies. impoverished textual archive in the present. By the time She expressed thanks to the LRCCS staff, donors, Katie’s research began, the Dongba Culture Research faculty and students who enriched her doctoral studies. Institute (of Lijiang, China), led by Institute researcher Wang Shiying, had worked with Beijing’s Minzu Incoming MA Students University to digitize and catalogue a 1500-volume collection of Naxi books stored at Minzu University. Siyin Zheng received her Bachelor of Law degree in Collaborating with both organizations, Katie oversaw international relations from Xiamen University in Fujian the return of these books—digitally or in printed hard Province. She plans to focus her research on China’s copy—to Sanba ritualists, researchers, and schools. political institutions and the development of authori- Ultimately, 26,823 pages of written text, as well as tarian regimes through a global perspective. Siyin has multiple digital copies of the entire archive, made it been an exchange student at Washburn University, back to Sanba. The result is that Sanba communities visited Ann Arbor in the past, and has organized now have the ability to hold ceremonies that have translation groups on social media, debating contests, been lost for decades, and Sanba people have access TED talks and book clubs. to books written by deceased ancestors, friends, and neighbors. What, exactly, they will do with these books Tessa Raymond completed her BA in international remains to be seen, of course. relations/Chinese language & literature from Michigan the work was funded in part by the U-M Lieberthal- State University and would like to study the compara- Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and the National tive politics of East Asia, honing in on the ethno-securi- Science Foundation. But, Katie reports, the whole grand ty issues of Xinjiang and Tibet. She has engaged in scheme would have fizzled out at the start if not for cultural immersion programs in China, interred at a the moral support and wily bureaucratic advisement Shanghai law firm, and seeks a future in think tanks of Katie’s advisors in China and the US, Miranda Brown, or global exchange organizations with China. Erik Mueggler, and Wang Shiying. Chad Westra graduated in history/Chinese language Jaymin Kim, Ph.D. in ALC, and literature from Calvin College in Grand Rapids graduated this past April. His wants to explore Chinese history and political literature dissertation is titled “Asymme- through topics ranging from modern language reform try and Elastic Sovereignty in to questions of identity during times of transforma- the Qing Tributary World: tional social change. Chad has studied in Beijing and Criminals and Refugees in Taipei, interned in Washington, DC at an Asia-focused Three Borderlands, 1630s- organization and, most recently, worked for a Chinese 1840s,” and his dissertation American organization in Detroit in a bilingual capacity. committee consisted of Pär Cassel (chair), Victor Lieberman, Marie Sheehan is pursuing the J.D.-Chinese Studies George Steinmetz, and Loretta M.A. dual degree program. She graduated from the Jaymin Kim (left) with Professor College of Wooster in 2017, majoring in Political Pär Cassel, the Chair of his disser- Kim (University of Hong Kong). tation committee, at graduation In Fall 2018, he started Science and Chinese Studies. Marie completed an in April 2018. teaching at the University of undergraduate thesis that analyzed and compared St. Thomas in St. Paul as an Assistant Professor of History. disaster discourse in Chinese media after the industrial explosion in Tianjin and after the Sichuan earthquake Tamar Broswald Ozery, Michigan Law School, recently in 2008. While in college, she also spent the summer moved to Cambridge, MA, where she began a two year of 2016 completing a research project at the Harbin position as a Program Fellow at the Harvard Law School Institute of Technology on the economic development Program on Corporate Governance and Financial of the Northeast region of China, as well as studying Regulation. While on her fellowship, she will be in a Mandarin language immersion program. She hopes continuing to develop her China-focused research. to deepen her understanding of governance and law in the PRC while completing her MA. ashington State China arriors, and the Presentation of Historical of Historical and the Presentation arriors, , Huawei, and many others. ACCAR, Huawei, and many others. Weican and Weican rchitecture, aubman School of A rchitecture. aubman School of Architecture. e also wish to welcome the following incoming PhD e also wish to welcome acoma, P explore diverse geographical orientations in visual and in visual orientations geographical diverse explore in Mingzhou interest with a special materials textual he also period. Meanwhile, Song-Yuan during the elements into his bring comparative attempts to on the commercial by exploring writings research the while analyzing Florence Renaissance cityscape of life that gained currency wealth and active idea of civic during Quattrocento. humanists among Florentine W Studies academic community: students to our Chinese (former Languages and Cultures Raymond Hsu, Asian , Department of Xiaoyue Wang LRCCS MA student), - Anthro Han, Department of Wenliang Anthropology, Jieqiong , Department of Anthropology, Lao Wo pology, , T Wang Zuo, T (L-R): Yang Yihang, Economic and Commercial Counsellor, PRC Consulate General General Consulate PRC Counsellor, Commercial and Economic Yihang, (L-R): Yang in San Francisco; Gary Locke, US Ambassador to China (2011-2014); Stanley Barer, WSCRC Co-Founder and Founderof Garvey Shubert Barer; Admiral Samuel J. Locklear, Commander of US Pacific Command (2012-2015); Mercy Kuo, WSCRC President and Executive Director; Andy Wilson, WSCRC Chair; Robert Anderson, WSCRC Co-Founder; Nelson Dong, WSCRC General Counsel and Partner at Dorsey Whitney. Alumni News S and the Ford LRCC from Adrian Carney graduated His research in December 2017. School of Public Policy titled “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin in China: were papers - and “Interact 2014-2017,” Regulation and Crackdown, Kingdoms, ing with History: Romance of the Three Dynasty W he has worked as a As of May 2018, Narratives.” Assistant for LRCCS and for the Office of Research of Michigan. Development at the University University He is considering a Ph.D. program. Kuo (LRCCS MA 1994) was appointed president Mercy of the W and executive director Relations Council based in Seattle. 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23 22 Steven F. Jackson (Political Yan Long (PhD in Sociology, Science PhD, 1994) published 2013), has accepted a position China’s Regional Relations in of Assistant Professor in the Comparative Perspective: From Sociology Department at the Harmonious Neighbors to University of California, Strategic Partners (Routledge) Berkeley, starting in fall 2018. this spring. In it, he compares Prior to accepting this position, China’s recent relations with its she had been an Assistant twenty-three neighbors with Professor of Sociology at Indiana the way in which other large, University since 2015 and a powerful countries treat their neighbors. In late 2016, postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University since 2013. he published one aspect of his research on Chinese foreign policy in Strategic Studies Quarterly, “Does Andrew Mertha (Political China Have a Monroe Doctrine?” Since 1994 he has Science PhD, 2001) has been political science faculty at Indiana University of accepted the position of Pennsylvania (IUP), and has spent twenty-four years George and Sadie Hyman explaining to fellow academics exactly where that is! Professor of Chinese Studies In 2013 he presented research on China, Japan and and Director of the China the power transition in Asia at a conference in Sydney, Program at the Johns Hopkins Australia, which was published in 2017 in Power University Nitze School of Transition in Asia (ed. Walton and Kavalski). Last Advanced International Studies summer, he and his wife Dr. Andrea Lopez (MA CREES (SAIS), in Washington, D.C., ’99, PhD Political Science ’02) presented papers at the succeeding David Lampton and, before him, Doak International Studies Association in Hong Kong, where Barnett. This new position, which began July 1, 2018, they met in 2004. Because his wife teaches at Susque- will allow Dr. Mertha to actively lead a world-renowned hanna University, they live midway between the towns program dedicated to the study of China. Prior to of Indiana and Selinsgrove, deep in the “enemy accepting this position, he was a Professor of Govern- territory” of State College, Pennsylvania, where they ment at Cornell University. regularly wear subtle hues of maize and blue to public events. When they are not commuting, teaching, Kenneth Swope, LRCCS MA, 1995 grading and writing, they enjoy cooking, hiking, and History PhD, 2001, has pub- international travel and watching UM sports. lished two books in the past year: On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger: Li Min (Ph.D 2008 Anthropology, University of Michigan) War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation is an associate professor of East Asian archaeology at in Southwest China During the UCLA, with a joint appointment at Department of Ming-Qing Transition, in the Anthropology and Department of Asian Languages and “Studies in War, Society, and the Cultures. His archaeological research spans from state Military” series (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, formation in early China to early modern global trade 2018); and was co-editor (with Tonio Andrade) and network. He is also co-director of the landscape archae- contributor, Early Modern East Asia: War, Commerce & ology project in the Bronze Age city of Qufu, China. His Cultural Exchange: Essays in Honor of John E. Wills, Jr. first book Social Memory and State Formation in Early (London: Routledge, 2017). In addition, he completed China with Cambridge University Press was published in three book chapters: “War and Society in East Asia,” in May, 2018. Currently he is conducting field research on The Routledge Global History of War and Society, edited his second book on the origin and dynamics of the by David J. Ulbrich and Matthew S. Muehlbauer (London: Shang state in Bronze Age China. Routledge, 2018), pp. 1-28; “Rivers of Blood and Roads of Bones: Sichuan in the Ming-Qing Transition,” in Early Modern East Asia: War, Commerce & Cultural Exchange: Essays in Honor of John E. Wills, Jr., edited by Kenneth M. Swope and Tonio Andrade (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 34-64; and “Naval Technology, State Power and the Influence of Qi Jiguang in the Late Ming,” in The Maritime Defence of China: General Qi Jiguang and Beyond, edited by Y.H. Teddy Sim (Singapore: Springer, 2017), pp. 201-215. Dr. Swope is Professor of History and Senior Fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War

Li Min (Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2008) on a recent archaeological dig in China. and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi.

(2017) elevision and Media, Dragonfly Eyes aiwan. Xu Bing Xu aipei Fine Arts Museum in T by the co-sponsored are the Xu Bing presentations of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for University School of Confucius Institute, Stamps Chinese Studies, Art & Design, Department of Film, T and the Museum of Art. October 7, 2018 Sunday, Xu Bing and the Origins of Creativity Lecture: 4:00pm-5:15 pm Helmut Stern Auditorium of Michigan Museum of Art University MI 48109 Ann Arbor, 525 S. State Street, 7, 2018 October Sunday. of Xu Bing: Film Screening Born in Chongqing, China, Xu Bing is one of the most Born in Chongqing, China, Xu Bing is one well known artists in China, contemporary renowned political of artistic sophistication, for his representations His artworks imagination. conscience, and far-reaching venues including have been exhibited at many prestigious the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan the British Museum and Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the T Auditorium Main Michigan Theater, MI 48104 Arbor, Ann 603 E. Liberty, reception pm: Pre-screening 5:30pm-6:10 Lobby Main at the Michigan Theater, Eyes (2017) of Dragonfly 6:15pm: Screening Theater Main Michigan Theater, A with Xu Bing Q& Screening 7:45pm: Post surveillance video, real from Constructed entirely Eyes is a unique hybrid of fiction and Dragonfly Xu Bing, one of the most famous Director documentary. online fine artists in China, collected his imagery from surveillance cameras. sites that stream eiser ashtenaw, ashtenaw, Book From Book From Background Story, Background . , Peking , Peking ashington; Changdong Zhang , Calligraphy Word Square www.ii.umich.edu/lrccs S Center for Chinese Studies and on the LRCC ogel W in 12 noon – 1:00pm in Room 110 uesdays from Events Fall 2018 LRCCS Events Events LRCCS 2018 Fall public. open to the and free are All events Governance: Adaptive China’s Challenges and Future Success Past in Honor of Discussion A Panel (1938-2001) Michel Oksenberg Professor September 14, 2018 Friday, Discussion 4:00pm Panel 6:00pm Reception University; Steven M. Goldstein, Harvard Panelists: , Whiting Susan University, Jean C. Oi, Stanford of W University Lieberthal- of the Mary Gallagher, Director University. moderator. will serve as Studies, Rogel Center for Chinese 100 W Palmer Commons, Forum Hall, 4th floor MI Ann Arbor, Series LRCCS Noon Lecture The Fall 2018 12 noon–1:00pm New Time: Tuesdays Hall, Room 110 Weiser MI Ann Arbor, Street, 500 Church Series is being held on Noon Lecture The China Center’s T Xu Bing and Film Screening Talk 7, 2018 October Sunday, artist and film Xu Bing, an internationally renowned his life as an artist and the many will discuss director, Xu will focus on how he draws media in which he works. Xu will talk about his the society. from inspirations the Sky, works including Book From signature , the Ground which Eyes (2017), Phoenix, and his new film Dragonfly at the Michigan Theater will have its Michigan premiere and Q and A). for a reception (with Xu Bing present website at: Hall on central campus. Bagels and light refreshments refreshments Bagels and light campus. Hall on central are will be available. A total of eleven presentations Jeff in the fall series: Sida Liu (Sept. 25); featured (Oct. 9); Snyder-Reinke (Oct. 2); Eric L. Hutton (Oct. 30); Xiaomei Chen (Oct. 23); Elizabeth Berger 13); Ling (Nov. 6); Jamie Monson Jennifer Lin (Nov. 27); Patricia 20); Stephen R. Platt (Nov. Chen (Nov. A complete listing Sieber (Dec. 4); and Bin Xu (Dec. 11). the Lieberthal- of all titles and synopses is available from R

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — 25 24 Art, History, and Sinology: An International Conference in Honor of Martin J. Powers November 9-10, 2018 10th floor Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI Martin J. Powers, Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures, has always been a towering beacon in the field, trailblazing fresh methodologies Xu Bing, Dragonfly Eyes (2017) and breaking down academic stereotypes on Chinese culture. In celebration of his well-deserved retirement The Fall 2018 Electric Shadows Film Series ~ from teaching, Prof. Powers’ graduate advisees and Rip It Up colleagues from around the world will convene an Sundays at the Michigan Theater or State Theater international conference on Chinese art and history 603 E. Liberty and 233 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI on November 9 and 10, 2018, at Weiser Hall (see Oct. 7-Nov. 18, 2018 www.ii.umich.edu/lrccs for program updates). This academic gathering will reflect upon ways the field The Confucius Institute at U-M’s annual film series of sinology has changed over the course of Prof. Powers’ Electric Shadows 2018 presents the most celebrated long academic career and the new directions it is devel- Chinese artists’ thought-provoking films. Six art films oping, or should develop, in the years ahead. This event from China will be screened this fall starting on is sponsored by LRCCS with additional support provided October 7, every Sunday (except for October 14). by the Department of the History Art, U-M Museum of This year’s film series will premiere Xu Bing’s debut film Art as well as Liu Jiuzhou and Qian Ying. Dragonfly Eyes on October 7 at the Michigan Theater Main Hall, with Xu Bing present for a reception and Q & A. All six films share the similar themes, attempting to address the scathing social, political, and cultural issues such as censorship, surveillance, lack of trust, loss of memories, and destruction of traditions and beliefs. These films call out unfairness, injustice, and indifference of the world we live in. Schedule: For the most up-to-date information on the Electric Shadows film series schedule, please go to: http://www.confucius.umich.edu/events/chinese-films/ or call 734-764-8888.

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University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — 27 26 LRCCS Distinguished Visitor Stan Lai all of the above events will augment a new course (Lai Shengchuan) ASIAN 380 “Contemporary Art in Japan and China”, Playwright and Director being taught by Professor Markus Nornes and Fang Coming to U-M in March 2019 Zhang in Fall 2018. Please contact [email protected] Playwright and director Stan Lai, touted as being “the and [email protected] for further information. best Chinese language playwright and director in the PULSE world” (BBC), will be a Past Events LRCCS Distinguished Visitor in March 2019. Lai’s 35 Ping Pong Diplomacy: original plays to date have Celebrating Michigan and China greatly influenced theatre September 18, 2017 in the Chinese language Power Center for the Performing Arts theatre and have helped Co-sponsored by LRCCS, U-M Association of Chinese create a large base for Professors, U-M Confucius Institute, Office of Research, young theatre audiences in Office of University Development, the China Soong China. In 2018 alone, 13 of Ching Ling Foundation, and the Chinese Table Tennis Stan Lai’s plays were touring Association around the Chinese world in productions directed by After more than two decades of political disassociation himself, not to mention hundreds of productions in col- between the U.S. and China, a Chinese Ping Pong lege campuses around the Chinese world. Lai recently has delegation visited Ann Arbor at the invitation of the been doing more work in the West, in English, including University of Michigan in 1972. This activity helped directing Dream of the Red Chamber for the San begin formal communication and relations between our Francisco Opera (2016) in collaboration with LRCCS nations and later became known as Ping Pong Diplomacy. faculty associate, composer Bright Sheng, who wrote In celebration of the 45th anniversary of this historic the music. Dr. Lai holds a Ph.D in Dramatic Art from the occasion, the University of Michigan hosted events that University of California, Berkeley, and has taught exten- included a ping pong exhibition game at the Power sively at the Taipei National University of the Arts, and at Center and a photo exhibit at the U-M Asia Library. Berkeley and Stanford. His book on creative theory (Stan Lai on Creativity, in Chinese, 赖声川的创意学) The evening-long public program featured remarks is a best seller in China and Taiwan. An edition of 10 of from Wensheng Tang his plays in English is to be published by Cambria Press (Former Vice Chairwoman, in early 2019. While at University of Michigan in March translator for Mao Zedong during 1971-72 ping pong 2019, Lai will give workshops and lectures to students, diplomacy); Tiejun Yu, faculty and the broader U-M community. Associate Dean, Peking University; Jan Berris, Vice President, National China Contemporary Art Symposium Committee on US-China University of Michigan Museum of Art Relations; and Professor Mary Gallagher, LRCCS April 6, 2019 Director To be held in Stern Auditorium at the U-M Museum of Art, this initiative comes from four decades of the American art world’s active engagement with Chinese artists, scholars and critics. Participants will include American art museum professionals, and collectors, while U-M students and members of the community will engage in conversations on related themes, including exhibiting contemporary Chinese art in museums, collecting contemporary art, and the impact work by Chinese artists has had on them.

Uomo in divisa 2018, silkscreen on super mirror stainless steel, Match Two: Olympic PRC Gold Medalists Sen Yan and Hong Qiao with Edmond 250 x 125 cm. Photo Oak Taylor- Tsoi and Tianshi Wang. Photo courtesy of Carol Stepanchuk. Smith, courtesy of Michelangelo Pistoletto and Galeria Continua. tudies, organized organized Studies, omen’s ang, Asian Languages and ang gave a presentation ang gave a presentation on ang Zheng, W ang Zheng presented on the political ang Zheng presented - their profes detailed also Each speaker topics. related as MA students China since studying journeys sional an the audience with a time, and provided once upon CCS the panel,LR Q and A session. Preceding engaging Lieberthal andRichard with Ken hosted a luncheon S and some LRCC included the panelists Rogel, which and LRCCS alum Courtney Fellows Postdoctoral faculty, is a Business Development (’13), who Henderson Innovation Center. Manager at the Michigan-China U-M-Fudan University Conference, May 2018. Professor Xiaobing Tang (center left, in gray suit) and Professor Wang Zheng (center front with red purse). LRCCS Director Mary Gallagher (far right) comments on US-China subnational relations with panelists (from left to right) Mercy Kuo, Brian Connors and Damien Ma. Conference U-M-Fudan University May 18-19, 2018 on “Cultural conference interdisciplinary The first - a collabora in Modern China,” and Practice Production tion between the LRCCS at U-M and the International on Chinese Civilization at Fudan Center for Research May 18 to 19, 2018. was held at Fudan from University, Xiaobing T U-M professors and W Cultures, the conference in collaboration with Professor Jin Professor with in collaboration the conference - present Eighteen scholars Guangyao of Fudan University. over production subjects in cultural on diverse ed papers Xiaobing T the past century. songs in the between film and popular the relationship 1930s and W implications of the mass culture in the socialist period. implications of the mass culture wartime photog- new works on local operas, Interesting by also presented public, etc., were reading raphy, based in China. young scholars ashington State China Rela- LRCCS Alumni Discuss US-China Subnational LRCCS Alumni Discuss Relations April 13, 2018 of Michigan University On April 13 LRCCS hosted an excellent and timely panel between the US discussion on the subnational relations by LRCCS Director and China. The panel was moderated Kuo LRCCS alums Mercy featured and Mary Gallagher, of the W (’94), President tions Council, and Damien Ma (’06), Fellow at the the Execu- well as Brian Connors, Institute, as Paulson of the Michigan-China Innovation Center. tive Director the panel touched on Chinese investment in various US during the current US-China relations US states, and other tariffs and trade administration, presidential LRCCS Associate Director Nico Howson (far left) moderates a discussion at the conference for MA students in Asian Studies with (from left to right) Aminda Smith, MSU; Dean Fealk, DLA Piper; and Jeffrey Guyton, Mazda of Europe. Masters Students Conference in Asian Studies in Asian Conference Students Masters 2018 April of Michigan University Center, Resource the East Asia National In April 2018 S, the between LRCC funded partnership the federally the Nam Center for Japanese Studies and Center for Professional the inaugural hosted Studies, Korean for MA Students in East Asian Networking Conference MA students accepted from were Proposals Studies. Seton Hall, Florida International, Rutgers, Harvard, from institu these- A students from Ohio State and U-M. M questions and received research their tions presented and U-M scholars, their peers and commentary from The MA student Fellows. including LRCCS Postdoctoral the chance to participate in a participants also had facilitated by the Brightmoor team-building workshop Makerspace. given opportunities to network students were A among other students in East Asian Studies M of these as well as successful graduate program experts on China, featured The conference programs. about their and Japan giving presentations Korea was moderated Panel in East Asia. The Keynote careers Nico Howson, and featured by LRCCS Associate Director minda Smith of engaging discussion between him and A Guyton of MSU, Dean Fealk of DLA Piper and Jeffrey Mazda Europe.

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — 29 28 Outreach Hainan Normal University Faculty Visit August 21, 2018 East Asia Professional Development Viewing of filmMaineland Workshop for Teachers LRCCS co-hosted a delegation of 19 faculty members in Music for the Masses: History, Culture and Social education from Hainan Normal University interested in Change in East Asia through Song & Melody cross-cultural research, teaching methods and interna- May 4-5, 2018 tional exchange. While on campus, the group viewed Over 23 educators attended (on site and through the documentary film Maineland which traces the distance learning) the annual East Asia workshop to experiences of two high school students from Shanghai explore innovative ideas on teaching about the culture and Guangzhou who enroll at an elite American prep and history of China, Japan and Korea. This year’s school in Maine. The film opened up discussion on theme, music as a gateway to understanding political ways to broaden international student life, offer change and content, was presented in a 2-day confer- educational opportunities for students of different ence with lectures and performances by faculty, music income levels, and provide a stronger environment experts, teachers, and artists. Participants examined of empathy. such questions as: When do we sing together? What the visit was organized by BCC International motivates groups to use music to make a point, Education Group (BCC), located in SE Michigan and celebrate an occasion, or earmark a cultural event? How with headquarters in Beijing. BCC partners with and are national anthems contentious or unifying? In what helps to manage international programs housed in high ways do chants, hymns, rhymes, anthems chart our schools across China. Students prepare for the academic musical landscape? rigors of studying in Michigan and receiving a high Organized and developed by the U-M National school diploma with the ultimate goal of attending a Resource Center for East Asian Studies (LRCCS, university in the US. They are placed in high schools Japanese Studies and the Nam Center), invited speakers throughout southeastern Michigan with a particular included U-M Prof. Christi-Anne Castro, Assoc. Prof. of emphasis on high schools in Ann Arbor, Saline, Dexter Ethnomusicology and Director of the Center for and Chelsea. Students live with host families or at the Southeast Asian Studies; Susan Hwang, Asst. Prof. of BCC Student Center, formerly, a U-M sorority house. East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University; Megan Hill, U-M Lecturer of Musicology; Tzywen Gong, Michigan Taiwanese American Organization; Sakura Performing Arts Group, and Xiaodong Wei, erhu and guzheng. These guest lecturers covered a range of music from popular global soundscapes and traditional orchestral ensembles to songs of dissent, unification, and democracy. Classroom teachers also presented on learning experiences about East Asia: Gregory Dykhouse, Black River Public School, Holland, MI (museum field trip); Steven Boyce, Pioneer High School, Hainan delegate with Ann Arbor teacher of Chinese, Ping Song (center), and Ann Arbor (classroom exploration kits); Victor McDermott, LRCCS center associate, Fang Zhang (r). Ann Arbor Academy (music as global exchange); JL Fleming, Clague Middle School, Ann Arbor (Asian Maineland was also shown on May 10th at the Hatcher literature and book clubs). Part of a growing network Graduate Library to staff, librarians, parents and students, of Michigan-based educators, these teachers are an event co-organized by LRCCS and the Asia Library. committed to engaging with school administrators Stay tuned for additional film viewings that cover and curriculum directors to ensure ongoing support transnational experiences, cultural highlights, and of East Asia content in the curriculum. ongoing perspectives of China. Maineland is reviewed by LRCCS outreach coordinator Carol Stepanchuk in the upcoming fall edition of Education About Asia, a teaching resource published by the Association for Asian Studies.

Publications for teachers, funded by LRCCS Books for Peaceful Purposes. Photo courtesy of Carol Stepanchuk.

It is hoped that by building a greater understanding of understanding that by building a greater It is hoped he itinerary proposed attempts to balance to balance attempts proposed The itinerary urban change. on conceived iterations sites with newly visits to historical in the posed by sustainability as well as challenges gardens modern world. and between humankind and nature philosophy the natural that teachers/ environment our impact on the natural for interpreting form an appreciation students can begin to and seeking out new global partner- urban solutions fresh Botanical with Matthaei in progress are Collaborations ships. and Sustainability. Environment and School for Gardens exchanges will be Opportunities for teacher/student tour experience. overall into the integrated The Organic Farm: A fine line exists between the artfully constructed garden (yuan) and the divided field (tian)--the productive land of edible crops, orchids, and ponds, once an important feature of gardens. Today, this aspect of traditional gardening has given way to small scale farming in China– mixed land use and innovative techniques on smaller plots of lands—promoting urban sustainability and resilience by bringing food production closer to consumers and reducing the environmental footprint. Little Donkey Farm is featured on the itinerary as one of China’s first CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture)—a joint initiative between the Agriculture and Forest Ministry of Beijing with Renmin University to offer chemical free cultivation of fruits and vegetables. —a fresh vision of traditional form and style. Red Brick Museum: From the layered experience of an historic, imperial garden, the next site shifts to a contemporary landscaped courtyard, the Red Brick Museum, an exhibition space for modern and performanceart. Viewers can stroll through this unique red brick arboreal gardenscape—passing terraced waterways stone-laden crossing corridors through over and oday’s conceptions of garden, of garden, conceptions oday’s however, must negotiate dramatic social, agricultural and social, agricultural dramatic must negotiate however, East Asian Gardens and Sustainability Experiential Tour for Teachers Tour Experiential Sustainability and Gardens Asian East Up! Coming of process in the are coordinators sia outreach U-M East A secondary experiential tour for a cross-cultural designing and to compare educators community college school and on-site through and sustainability cultures garden contrast of this trek The backbone Japan and Korea. visits to China, in Beijing,Seoul classical Asian gardens takes participants to trip was undertaken this past and Kyoto/Osaka (a planning outdoor As aesthetically designed January 2018). winter, of space types occupied different gardens traditional spaces, them being imperial groups—among user for different courtyards, temple grounds, gardens, royal hunting parks, T and scholar estates. Summer Palace: China’s largest imperial garden—a taste of artifice, imagination and storytelling.An introduction to water sources and the building blocks of classic garden essential: rock, water, plants and architecture. Garden of Harmonious Interests “Xiequyuan.” Photos courtesy Stepanchuk. Carol of A sampling of sites (Beijing) (Beijing) A sampling of sites

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — 31 30 From the Asia Library Customs Service of China 1854-1949”), and two Liangyu Fu, Chinese Studies Librarian collections in Archives Unbound (“Chinese Maritime Customs Service: The Customs’ Gazette, 1869-1913” By this past August, Liangyu Fu had finished her fifth and “Shanghai Municipal Council: The Municipal year serving as your Chinese Studies Librarian. She is Gazette, 1908-1940”). happy to report that she has been promoted to Senior Associate Librarian. This year besides working on library Chinese Dance Collection Development projects and presenting on librarianship topics, Liangyu The Asia Library’s Chinese Dance Collection, our notable also shared her own research with a broad international unique collection, has kept growing this year. This audience. She delivered a paper on indexing science March at the Council on East Asian Libraries annual translations in the 19th century at “The Book Index” meeting, Liangyu delivered a presentation on the conference, University of Oxford. She was also invited resources, collaboration, and outreach related to the back to the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, collection development effort over the past three years. to discuss the production and use of educational wall New acquisitions this year include archival materials charts during the late Qing period. This summer regarding the early history of the Association of Dancers Liangyu and her colleague Meredith Kahn conducted in China and over 1,000 dance programs collected by a research trip to Fudan University, funded by LRCCS an individual dance artist in China over the past 30 Michigan-Fudan collaborative social science research years. They are also preparing for the digitization of last program, to study the recently launched Open Access year’s exhibition on Chinese dance and the processing movement in China. They plan to analyze the data of more rare materials. In addition, Liangyu is planning collected during the trip and prepare for a publication to expand the collection to include other genres of in the coming academic year. performing arts and mass culture in modern China. Earlier this year the LibGuide on Chinese Dance was New Acquisitions published online, so for more information about the From June 2017 to June 2018, the Asia Library acquired collection overview and highlights, please visit: http:// 4,532 titles of printed materials (8,200 volumes in total) guides.lib.umich.edu/ChineseDance . to support research and teaching in Chinese studies. In addition, 548 volumes of serials were added to our “Deep Dive” Series current journal subscriptions and 96 titles of DVDs In collaboration with Professor Mary Gallagher (Political (442 discs in total) were added to the library’s visual Science), Liangyu continued the “Deep Dive into Digital material collection. These resources would not have and Data Methods for Chinese Studies” workshop series been available to you without the hard work of the this year. With generous funding support from LRCCS, Asia Library Chinese team members who provided we invited Dr. Daniela Stockmann (Hertie School of technical services for these resources: Chinese catalogers Governance, U-M alumna) to discuss social media Gengna Wang and Mei Wang, Chinese material research last November and Dr. Charles Chang (Purdue acquisition specialist I-Chun Wang, and student University) to teach spatial data this February. assistants Lu Li (18’ LSA undergraduate, Statistics) and liangyu has also been working on planning future Jen Lyn Chung (20’ LSA undergraduate, Mathematics). events. She visited the Research Center for Digital this year they kept acquiring new databases to Humanities at National Taiwan University during her support your research, learning, and teaching. U-M training at the National Central Library of Taiwan last became an institutional member of the Chinese Text November. She also attended the DHAsia Summit at Project, which enables faculty and students to easily Stanford this April. Do you want to know the exciting and efficiently access full-text data for digital humani- lineup of speakers for the coming year’s Deep Dive? ties research and teaching use. They also started the Please stay tuned for announcements this fall. If you subscription to two news resources: UDNdata Newspa- have any candidates in mind, please feel free to send per Database 聯合知識庫全文報紙資料庫 and the your recommendations to Liangyu Fu. new version of People's Daily (1946-present). a lot of English-language databases have also been Exhibition on Ping-Pong Diplomacy added to the library’s subscription this year, including Last fall, Liangyu curated a library exhibition titled Translations of the Peking Gazette Online, two modules “Small Ball’s Big Role: Sino-American Relations and of China from Empire to Republic (“Missionary, Sinology, ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy,’ 1971-1972.” It was co-spon- and Literary Periodicals” and “Records of the Maritime sored by LRCCS and Confucius Institute, and was part of the U-M celebration of the 45th anniversary of Ping-Pong Diplomacy. The exhibition panels were featured first at the Power Center during the day-long

Resources orld echnology for the 2018 echnology for the 2018 ube and Youku at http:// ube and Youku he goals of the center are to promote to promote center are of the The goals University. to develop and methodology, theory on new research Intelli- Analysis and for Spatial Data technology core an open to provide Service, and gent Information international collaboration. platform for Series on YouTube: Center Webinar China Data been offering bi-monthly China Data Center has are webinars Those recoded 2016. since Jan webinars T now available on You chinadatacenter.org/ProjectDemo/ProjectDemo.aspx Scholar: The CDC is Visiting China Data Center East China Sun from Pan hosting visiting scholar T of Science and University academic year. The Zhou Family Band, September 29th at 7:00pm, Mendelssohn Theater of Music, Arts and Dance festival (WOMAD). Hailed for as “China’s by BBC, regarded energy” its “tremendous , and selected by SOAS by The Guardian avant-garde” the 2017 Radio as one of its five favorite acts from an authentic WOMAD. Zhou Family Band presents that is immediately transnational. Chinese tradition The Confucius Institute at U-M of Marketing and Jiyoung Lee, Assistant Director Communications screening Along with co-sponsoring the talk and film on Sunday, international artist Xu Bing of renowned October 7th [see Events on p. 24], the Confucius will also be of Michigan Institute at the University Fall 2018: the following events during presenting and Hearty Beats” “Earthly Airs Performance: League at the Michigan 7 pm, Sept. 29, 2018 Theater Mendelssohn a unique concert and Hearty Beats,” “Earthly Airs China, will Central of wind and drum music from be performed at the Mendelssohn Theater on Friday, Zhou Family are The performers September 29, 2018. that play music musicians of hereditary Band, a group Zhou cycle rituals. and other life funerals, of weddings, through international attention Family Band attracted them to which brought tour in 2017, Europe their first festivals such as W five countries and prestigious ongbing Zhang, 2017. “The Evolvement ongbing Zhang, 2017. The China Data Center Shuming Bao, Director The China Data Center (CDC) is New Data Products: and products the following new data pleased to release Boundary Maps”. China Administrative services: “2017 boundary maps as an administrative This includes 2017 Boundary Maps of China: update of “The Administrative available at province, These maps are 1949-2017”. details at See more city and county levels. prefecture Announcement/Announce- http://chinadatacenter.org/ mentContent.aspx?id=2493. The following articles have been New Publications: published this past year: She, Bing, Hua Li and Shuming of Internet data and census “The integration Bao, 2018. data for spatial analysis in a geoportal.” In Laurie A Schintler and Zhenhua Chen (Eds), Big Data for Routledge. pp 153-163; Regional Science. New York: Ying, Zheng, Shibao Liu, Shuming Bao and Jianbo Zhou, Regional Development, and “Religious Diversity 2017. 1-9. 46C(2017): China.” China Economic Review, Vol. and Bao, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2017.08.003; Shuming and T and New Development of the Classification of Manu- of facturing.” In the Journal of Northeast University 5, pp25-33. Finance and Economics. Vol. The Geocomputation Center for New Partnership: at 2018 Social Sciences was established in January, as a joint effort by the Center for Wuhan University of Chicago and Spatial Data Science at the University of Michigan. the China Data Center at the University Lab of Survey and The center is hosted by the State Key Remote Sensing Information Engineering at Wuhan The panels and display case of the Ping-Pong Diplomacy exhibition. Photo Photo exhibition. Diplomacy Ping-Pong the case of display and panels The courtesy of Liangyu Fu eptember 18, 2017 and then moved back then moved and 18, 2017 on September event past March. until this for display Asia Library to the a had generated the exhibition Since the opening, to convert iangyu plans public. L from lot of interest in the coming year. to an online one this exhibition with willing to collaborate liangyu is always on physical and digital and researchers our faculty to contact her Please feel free exhibition projects. if you have any ideas.

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — 33 32 Photo Exhibition: “East in Motion” In the winter of 2019, UMMA will present exciting Nov. 1-31, 2018 at the Michigan League new photographic work by contemporary artist Wang 1st Floor Corridor and Lobby Qingsong (LRCCS Distinguished Visitor, 2016) in Wang In the past ten years, Yi-Chun Wu, the guest photogra- Qingsong: Bloodstained Shirt. The photograph was shot pher, has been working with numerous prestigious in collaboration with the LRCCS, the Stamps School of dance companies all over the world, including the Paris Art and Design, and local communities in Highland Park Opera Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Shen and Detroit. More than 70 people gathered for this Wei Dance Arts, American Ballet Theatre, Cloud Gate occasion on a cold February day in 2018 at a run-down Dance Theatre, and many more. She started photograph- former candy factory in Highland Park, Michigan, a ing the western dance companies, and later she gradually once flourishing industrial area. Wang Qingsong wished moved into performances of Asian dance companies. Her to reenact a scene in a famous drawing commemorat- photo exhibition entitled “East in Motion” will showcase ing China’s land reform in the early 1950s that shows a her photographs of “eastern” bodies and movements large group of peasants confronting their landlord over that transcend all boundaries of nations and races. his abuse. The celebration of the triumphant reclaiming of the peasants’ rights to own land is echoed in University of Michigan Museum of Art Bloodstained Shirt, where a group of adult, student, and child volunteers rise up against the backdrop of Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art an urban ruin, while the landlord, played by the artist Susan Dine, Mellon Curatorial Fellow wearing a coat of patched fashion brand tags, bends In the fall of 2018, the Shirley Chang Gallery of Chinese down. By collapsing narratives across different periods Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) and locations, this work foregrounds the ongoing will exhibit rarely seen Chinese rank badges from UMMA’s struggles of the oppressed and expresses hope for and the University’s Museum of Anthropological renewal and transformation. The exhibition will open Archaeology’s collections. These badges, which have on February 2 and run through May 26, 2019 in roots in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), were worn on UMMA’s Irving Stenn Jr. Family Gallery. the front and back of robes in the Qing dynasty (1644– at UMMA’s Robert B. Jacobs Asian Art Conservation 1912) to identify the rank of civil and military officials. Laboratory, the public is invited to observe Qian He, The special display will showcase a range of badges of East Asian painting conservator, restoring and re- different ranks, reigns, and styles in vibrant colors and mounting works on paper and silk from UMMA’s featuring woven and embroidery techniques. These offer collection and outside commissions from institutions a glimpse of the social structure of the last imperial era. such as the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Dayton Art One of them, the second rank golden pheasant badge Institute, and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. He is exemplifies late-Qing badge style: the shining body of currently working to remove a damaged painting from the bird and the red of the beaded sun stand out its backing paper; after cleaning and reinforcing the against a background of blue clouds. An online resource painting, he will attach it to a new paper. Qian and will be available for those who would like to learn more generations of conservators have been vehicles for the or are unable to view the works in person: preservation of centuries-old works, and allow us to https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/26228. enjoy them today.

Rank badge (bu˘zi˘) of civil rank 2, golden pheasant, ca. 1898–1910, embroidered Qian He working on a fan painting at the Robert B. Jacobs Asian Art Conservation silk, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Johe, 1989/2.26. Laboratory, UMMA, June 2018. sai with sai with (Jul 5, 2018) in a recent review review in a recent Times (Jul 5, 2018) The New York many of has translated Bruya, who Professor nglish, is currently working on books into English, is currently sai’s T by C. C. illustrated and written literature, humorous Playful and the field. in by scholars forwards unique adaptations illuminating, these yet genuinely writers, most influential to the introductions offer ideal Chinese thought. schools of ancient and works, volume as entertaining the praised War of The Art of a comic-book you’re and informative “whether strategist.” enthusiast or a military T of Daoism for the series: two foundational texts . The Zhuangzi and Dao De Jing sai and reissued sai and reissued New Resources: Resources: New Analects— and The of War The Art Texts for Classic New Translations at Eastern of philosophy professor Brian Bruya, S center associate, and LRCC University Michigan Art of War: into English Sunzi: The has translated The Analects: Edition and Confucius: An Illustrated classics of the versions from Edition An Illustrated cartoonist C. C. T adapted by bestselling These works are 2018. Press, by Princeton University of Library The Illustrated part of an ongoing project, popular graphic Chinese Classics, which brings together Asian philosophy and about traditional narratives Caption: Illustration by C. C. Tsai, Translation by Brian Bruya

University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Fall 2018 — 35 34 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: Artist Xu Bing working on “Background Story,” (2015), Madison, WI. Photo courtesy of Xu Bing Studio. See Events for Sunday, October 7, 2018.

Back Cover: Wang Qingsong (b. 1966), Bloodstained Shirt, 2018, c-print, courtesy of artist. University of Michigan Museum of Art exhibition, Feb 2-May 26, 2019. See Resource Section of this newsletter.

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