Yi-Li Wu, Women's and Gender Studies and History, University of Michigan, will lead this month's Classical Chinese text-reading.

The group 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. Participants with any level of classical Chinese experience are welcome to attend.

At each session, a presenter guides the group in a reading of 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.A light lunch will be served after.

Xiangjun Feng, University of Toronto will bring us to the close of this semester's Classical Chinese text-reading series.

Classical Chinese in Mexico, in 1923, on Mesmerism: Two Examples

Feng writes:

In what contexts do we usually encounter Classical Chinese? In the “Sinosphere,” in the premodern times, and on non-Western topics. These, however, do not make the full picture. The two texts we will read together were written by Chinese immigrants in Mexico in the modern days, and they talked about a topic that was explicitly from the Western tradition: mesmerism. We will together feel how Classical Chinese might (or might not) become different because of this unique context. We will also get a quick glance at the transnational history of mesmerism in the early twentieth century.

The group 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. Participants with any level of classical Chinese experience are welcome to attend.

At each session, a presenter guides the group in a reading of 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.A light dinner will be served.

Chen Kaijun, East Asian Studies, Brown University will lead this month's Classical Chinese text-reading.

The group 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. Participants with any level of classical Chinese experience are welcome to attend.

At each session, a presenter guides the group in a reading of 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.A light dinner will be served.

Our special guest speaker, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, History, University of Washington will kick off the first Classical Chinese text-reading for this semester.

The group 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. Participants with any level of classical Chinese experience are welcome to attend.

At each session, a presenter guides the group in a reading of 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.A light dinner will be served.

This talk will describe the articles Gessen has written since the start of the war and try to summarize some of what he's learned. The articles cover the effects of the war in Western Ukraine; the political science debates over "war termination"; the political science and historical debates over regime change; the fierce debates over whether negotiations with the Kremlin are possible; the arguments over military analysis and its failures or successes in thinking about this war; and debates about public opinion in Russia during the war. Gessen will also describe his work on "Russia hands"--the people who study Russia for a living, inside or in proximity to the U.S. Government--and what their relative contributions are to U.S. policy. The hope is to generate discussion and further thinking on war and peace in Russia and Ukraine.

About the Speaker
Keith Gessen was born in Moscow, in the U.S.S.R., and grew up in Massachusetts. He has been writing about Russia for the last twenty-five years. He is a founding editor of the literary magazine n+1, the translator of Kirill Medvedev, and the author of the novel A Terrible Country. He now serves as George T. Delacorte Assistant Professor of Magazine Journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.

Host
Reppy Institute For Peace and Conflict Studies

Co-Sponsors
Department of Comparative Literature
Institute for European Studies

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