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Mara Du discusses her new book "State and Family in China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

"State and Family in China" Book cover in black with red Chinese and English text
June 20, 2023

In Imperial China, the idea of filial piety not only shaped family relations but was also the official ideology by which Qing China was governed. In State and Family in China (Cambridge UP, 2021), Yue Du examines the relationship between politics and intergenerational family relations in China from the Qing period to 1949, focusing on changes in family law, parent-child relationships, and the changing nature of the Chinese state. 

Listen to the podcast of the interview with author Prof. Yue Mara Du.

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Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China

Book cover with political cartoon bisected by title. Above title is a woman breastfeeding while delivering a political speech, below title men take notes.

Author: Shu Yang

Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Notorious for her violence, jealousy, and promiscuity, the character of the shrew personified the threat of unruly femininity to the Confucian social order and served as a justification for punishing any woman exhibiting these qualities. In this book, Shu Yang connects these shrewish qualities to symbols of female empowerment in modern China.

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46.45

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Publication Year: 2023

Publication Number: 213

ISBN: 9781501770616

International Fair 2023

August 30, 2023

11:00 am

Uris Hall, Uris Hall Terrace

The annual International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, Cornell Global Hubs, and more.

The International Fair is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Office of Global Learning (both part of Global Cornell), with Cornell's Language Resource Center.

Register for the event on Campus Groups.

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Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

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Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

New CEAS book: Bandits in Print

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Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel by Scott Gregory

Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.

Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel

Book cover. A woodblock print of a man fighting a tiger with Chinese text below it. Cover is bisected by a band reading "Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel" by Scott Gregory.

Author: Scott Gregory

Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.

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26.95

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  • Cornell East Asia Series

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Publication Year: 2023

Publication Number: 212

ISBN: 9781501769689

Critical Theory, Area, and the Traces of Japanese Studies

June 3, 2023

10:00 am

Physical Sciences Building, 401

A symposium honoring the work and legacies of Brett de Bary and Naoki Sakai.

10:00-12:00 Panel 2: “Above Critical/ism” – Christine Marran (online), Hirotaka Kasai (online), Junyoung Kim, Takayuki Tatsumi, Andre Keiji Kunigami, Rich Calichman

13:30-15:00 Panel 3: “In Theory” – Maja Vodopivec, Joseph Murphy, Yoon Jeong Oh, and Blai Guarné, John Kim
15:15-17:15 Concluding roundtable and final remarks: “Orientally Challenged” (credit to KimSu Theiler for this concept) – Brett de Bary, Naoki Sakai, Tim Murray, Minoru Iwasaki, Susan Buck-Morss, Michael Bourdaghs

This 1.5 day symposium gathers colleagues from around the globe to continue the critical work of Brett de Bary and Naoki Sakai tracing new trajectories for Japanese studies, area studies, and humanistic inquiry in general.

This in-person gathering follows on the four virtual panels Spring 2023 of the Working in the Traces of Area Studies series hosted by Brett de Bary and Naoki Sakai.

Generous co-sponsorship provided by the Cornell East Asia Program, the Cornell Department of Asian Studies, and the Rose Goldsen Lecture Series at Cornell.

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