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Fashion and Politics in Twentieth-Century China

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August 9, 2022

Cornell Contemporary China Initiative's Fall Theme

The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative (CCCI) lecture series aims to expose the broad campus community to issues and scholarship of contemporary China and and the fall 2022 CCCI lecture series connected to two courses taught by Professor Peidong Sun, Fashion and Politics in Twentieth-Century China and Life and Death in China Under Mao.  She also hosted and directed the series.

FALL ’22 Fashion and Politics in Twentieth-Century China * – Peidong Sun

Some of the questions that guest speakers investigated 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? 

The Fall 2022 CCCI lecture videos linked in the titles and were recorded on the dates of the talk.  If a title is not linked, the speaker did not permit recording.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, (History, University of California, Irvine)

     Clothing, Kinship, Slogans, and Songs in Chinese Protest Movements of the Past and Present

     September 26, 2022.

Antonia Finnane, (History, University of Melbourne, Australia)

     Patterns for the People in Communist China

     October 12, 2022.

Deborah Davis, (Sociology, Yale University)

     Sexual Revolutions and the Future of the Institution of Marriage

     October 26, 2022.

Simona Segre-Reinach, (Fashion Studies, University of Bologna, Italy)

     Sino-Italian Encounters in Global Fashion: 20 Years of Sino-Italian Collaborations

     November 9, 2022.

We thank all of our co-sponsors for helping to make this series possible: Asian American Pacific Studies Program, Asian Studies, College of Human Ecology, Cornell Society for the Humanities, Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Department of History, Department of International & Comparative Labor Relations, The Levinson China & Asia-Pacific Studies Program.

 *Professor Peidong Sun’s course listings: Fashion and Politics in the Twentieth Century China (HIST4075/HIST6075/CAPS 4075) and Life and Death in China Under Mao (HIST3525/CAPS3525)

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Perspective Taking and Security Dilemma Thinking: Experimental Evidence from China and the United States

November 17, 2022

11:25 am

Uris Hall, G08

Professor Ryan Brutger explains that one of the central challenges in China-US relations is the risk of a security dilemma between China and the United States, as each side carries out actions for what it perceives to be defensively-motivated reasons, failing to realize how it is perceived by the other side. Yet how susceptible to the psychological biases that undergird the security dilemma are the Chinese and American publics? Can their deleterious effects be mitigated?

The speaker explores the microfoundations of the security dilemma, fielding parallel dyadic cross-national survey experiments in China and the United States. Micro-level evidence is found to be consistent with the logic of the security dilemma in publics in both countries. IR scholars have overstated the palliative effects of perspective taking, which can backfire in the face of perceived threats to actors' identities and goals. These findings have important implications for the study of public opinion in China-US relations, and perspective taking in IR.

About the Speaker

Ryan Brutger is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Prior to joining Berkeley, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Moderator

Paul Lushenko is a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and a Ph.D. student in International Relations at Cornell University.

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Presented by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Co-sponsored by the East Asia Program, the Department of Government, and the Gender and Security Sector Lab.

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August 31, 2022

11:00 am

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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, and more.

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

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Genocide and Cultural Genocide in China

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June 28, 2022

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There is ongoing confusion about whether “genocide” or “cultural genocide” best describes what is happening in China’s Uyghur region today. Some say there is no genocide, only cultural genocide. "In my view, it is both genocide and cultural genocide," explains Magnus Fiskesjö (Anthropology, Cornell and core EAP faculty).

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August 6, 2022

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