As the war in Ukraine rages on, how is the ground shifting across Eurasia and beyond? Leading journalists and scholars covering Russia, Europe, China and the global political landscape will discuss how international relations, security, trade and economics are shifting in ways not seen since World War II.

This Arts Unplugged event will feature:

Ann Simmons, the Wall Street Journal's Moscow Bureau Chief

Mark Landler, the New York Times' London Bureau Chief

Peter Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies

Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government in the College of Arts & Sciences

Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, will moderate the discussion.

Talk by James D. Frankel

Islam arrived in China during the 7th century as a foreign religion. Yet, once the first Muslims settled permanently there, Islamic religious and cultural traditions were gradually influenced by the norms of Chinese culture and society. This process of naturalization and localization sometimes referred to as “Sinicization”, continued apace for nearly a millennium before historical circumstances accelerated it during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. The vicissitudes of modern Chinese history have led to varying official governmental and societal attitudes towards Islam and Muslims and concomitant adaptations of identity and expressions of religiosity by Chinese Muslims. Most recently, the government of the People’s Republic of China is pursuing its own policies of decreasing foreign religious influences in the country in the name of combatting “extremism and separatism.” These have included official regulations aimed at “sinicizing” Islam in China, leading Muslims into a new wave of adaptation for their survival.

THIS EVENT IS CHANGED TO VIRTUAL

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloqium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is pleased to start the fall '22 semester series with Hyeok Hweon Kang (Assistant Professor at Washington University, St. Louis). The text title is: Reading Artisanal Knowledge from 16th Century Korea

Faculty hosts: TJ Hinrichs (History, Cornell) and Suyoung Son (Asian Studies, Cornell). Sponsored by the East Asia Program.

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文) text. The group typically meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and styles. Other premodern texts linked to classical Chinese in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese have been explored. Presentations include works from the earliest times to the 20th century. Workshop sessions are led by local, national, and international scholars.
All are welcome, with any level of experience with classical Chinese.
At each session, a participant presents a classical Chinese text. Attendees discuss historical, literary, linguistic, and other aspects of the text, working together to resolve difficulties in comprehension and translation.
No preparation is required, all texts will be distributed at the meeting.

Ming-sho Ho (Sociology, National Taiwan University)

Taiwan's vibrant democracy nowadays defied the geopolitical challenges imposed by a century of Japanese colonialism, cold-war anti-communist dictatorship, and China's irredentism. This lecture will analyze the island nation's pursuit of autonomy and democracy, with special attention to the role of student mobilization. "Student" was a category created in the colonial modernization, as the Japanese modernized the educational structure and expanded the youthful population receptive to political radicalism. After the flourishing of anti-colonial struggles in the 1920s, the postwar Chinese Nationalist regime encountered student mobilization in the 1947 February 28 Incident and the subsequent clandestine insurgency. The early-1970s witnessed the rise of the nationalistic Diaoyutai movement and its spillover to prodemocracy and social service streams. The lifting of martial law in 1987 gave a mighty impetus to the student movement, culminating in the 1990 Wild Lily Movement. After a long hibernation, the student movement made a comeback in the 2008 Wild Strawberry Movement and the 2014 Sunflower Movement, with the protest target shifting to China. His lecture will review the century-long student movement history and examine its changing ideologies, strategies, and impacts.

Faculty host: Eli Friedman (Sociology, Department of Comparative International Labor Relations, Cornell)
Co-sponsored by The Levinson China & Asia-Pacific Studies Program

The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative (CCCI) of the East Asia Program welcomes Simona Segre-Reinach (Fashion Studies, University of Bologna, Italy) as part of our semester-long theme of Fashion and Politics in Twentieth-Century China with faculty host, Peidong Sun (History, Cornell)

Some of the questions that guest speakers will investigate include: How do we define politics from the dimension of fashion? What was a politicized fashion? How did fashion reflect the power structure? How did fashion become a way of obedience and resistance? And how do we define and interpret the human condition in China under Mao's rule (1949-1976)? What was human resilience in the face of absolute power?

Simona Segre-Reinach's talk is titled, "Sino-Italian Encounters in Global Fashion: 20 Years of Sino-Italian Collaborations."

The talk focuses on the evolution of fashion relations between Italy and China in a unique period - from the late nineties of the 20th century to the second decade of the 21st century – which signals a change in the concept and the practices of Italian fashion on the one hand and the emerging of Chinese fashion withing a global setting on the other.

The CCCI lecture series aims to expose the broad campus community to issues and scholarship of contemporary China.

We thank our co-sponsors:

Asian American Pacific Studies Program | Asian Studies | College of Human Ecology | Cornell Society for the Humanities | Feminist, Gender & Sexuality StudiesDepartment of History | Department of International & Comparative Labor Relations | Department of History | The Levinson China & Asia-Pacific Studies Program

The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative (CCCI) of the East Asia Program welcomes Deborah Davis (Sociology, Yale University)
as part of our semester-long theme of Fashion and Politics in Twentieth-Century China with faculty host, Peidong Sun (History, Cornell)

Some of the questions that guest speakers will investigate include: How do we define politics from the dimension of fashion? What was a politicized fashion? How did fashion reflect the power structure? How did fashion become a way of obedience and resistance? And how do we define and interpret the human condition in China under Mao's rule (1949-1976)? What was human resilience in the face of absolute power?

Deborah Davis's talk is titled, "Sexual Revolutions and the Future of the Institution of Marriage."

Drawing on census data, documentaries, life histories, and a decade of fieldwork, the lecture considers the future of marriage and sexual intimacy in contemporary China where the one-child policy, massive migration out of villages, and multiplying connections to global youth cultures have transformed the legal, demographic, and cultural supports for marriage.

The CCCI lecture series aims to expose the broad campus community to issues and scholarship of contemporary China.

We thank our co-sponsors:

Asian American Pacific Studies Program | Asian Studies | College of Human Ecology | Cornell Society for the Humanities | Feminist, Gender & Sexuality StudiesDepartment of History | Department of International & Comparative Labor Relations | Department of History | The Levinson China & Asia-Pacific Studies Program

The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative (CCCI) of the East Asia Program welcomes Antonia Finnane (History, University of Melbourne) as part of our semester-long theme of Fashion and Politics in Twentieth-Century China with faculty host, Peidong Sun (History, Cornell)

Some of the questions that guest speakers will investigate include: How do we define politics from the dimension of fashion? What was a politicized fashion? How did fashion reflect the power structure? How did fashion become a way of obedience and resistance? And how do we define and interpret the human condition in China under Mao's rule (1949-1976)? What was human resilience in the face of absolute power?

Antonia Finnane's talk is titled, "Patterns for the People in Communist China."

When the People’s Republic of China was founded, new clothing protocols for state employees resulted in a general change in everyday dress. This was consistent with historical precedent: when the dynasty changed, the clothing was altered. But who made the new clothes and how were they made? Clothing in this period is often discussed in terms such as variety, agency, and consumption, contradicting assumptions of general conformity under communism; yet if we look at how clothes were made, we can see how conformity was instilled.

The CCCI lecture series aims to expose the broad campus community to issues and scholarship of contemporary China.

We thank our co-sponsors:

Asian American Studies Program | Asian Studies | College of Human Ecology | Cornell Society for the Humanities | Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies | Department of International & Comparative Labor Relations | Department of History | The Levinson China & Asia-Pacific Studies Program